Birth Walk Vermont

03/20/2020

Be gentle with yourself, we’re all trying our best 💕 you don’t have to be perfect, you don’t have to be productive, and you don’t have to be operating at full capacity during a global crisis. You got this!!!

Artist: on Instagram!

03/19/2020

Evidence Based Birth and covid19

Dr. Rebecca Dekker and Research Editor Anna Bertone, MPH have been working nonstop to stay abreast of new research that comes out nearly every day about COVID-19 and pregnancy.

We will be hosting a live, public webinar on Monday, March 23 at 8:30 PM EDT. The webinar will be limited to 500 live attendees - so register and be the first to login on webinar day!

A recording will be sent out if you are unable to attend live.

REGISTER HERE ➡️ https://evidencebasedbirth.com/covid19

03/16/2020

Hi everyone — I’m a full spectrum doula and wanted to share that I’m offering

***FREE support for ALL outcomes of pregnancy during this time. ***

If you are experiencing a miscarriage, pregnancy loss, or abortion for any reason during this crisis, and would like support - in person, over phone, or video, contact me.

The miscarriage & pregnancy loss support group I lead is not meeting in person at this time, but I’m always available over the phone for support.

802-768-1076 - [email protected]

Be well everyone ❤️

03/13/2020

ACOG’s newest guidelines

We have updated our Practice Advisory on Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The update includes a new algorithm for clinicians to aid in assessing and managing pregnant women with suspected or confirmed infection, developed with the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

Find it (and bookmark it) here: https://www.acog.org/Clinical-Guidance-and-Publications/Practice-Advisories/Practice-Advisory-Novel-Coronavirus2019

03/13/2020

For those looking for trustworthy advice on covid-19 and pregnancy, here are some from the National Prenatal Association.

Breastfeeding remains safe, even if feeding parent is positive for Coronavirus. I haven’t been able to find anything on early pregnancy, but it looks like from what we know, there haven’t been any adverse impacts on babies born in the last few weeks.

Take good care, practice social distancing, keep clean, and stay loving and compassionate to one another ❤️

08/25/2019

During the post partum period after my eldest son was born, I realised how the simple task of eating nourishing...

08/21/2019

Hope you get good rest tonight, parents!

08/20/2019

🥛 💪 ❤️

To every single one of you breastfeeding mothers out there... it is your legal right to breastfeed your baby in public, with or without a cover. Don't ever allow anyone to tell you to: go to the bathroom.... or to go somewhere else.... or that you can't do that here.
Use your voice even if it shakes, we have your back.

08/19/2019

I love everything about this share 🥰🥰🥰

🌙 1 hour postpartum🌙
I didn’t hire a birth photographer - it wasn’t financially or logistically feasible for me. And while I would have loved to have one there to make my birth look glamorous and elegant and powerful (birth photographers are incredibly skilled and amazing at their craft), instead I have these very real, very raw photos of me looking flushed and wet and exhausted with double chins and poor lighting and pixilation and extra belly.
I didn’t love them at first - who wants to see 70+ photos of their body NOT looking how they want it to look? But I’m warming up to them, because F**K what I expected my body to look like - this is what it DOES look like. This is what my body looks like when it has just carved itself hollow, stretched its tissues so wide they tore open, squeezed and pulled and pushed a new human into the world, and managed all of this without letting me die like I thought I might in the midst of it.
I’m still trying to figure out my birth and my body, but I am deeply appreciative of how efficient and effective it can be if I just get out of the way. I will try to do the same postpartum - trust this body to do what it needs to in order to support me and my baby and try to stop worrying about it and everything else.

08/18/2019

“With a bit of creativity, and a whole lot of guts, companies can create a workplace where mothers aren’t hiding in broom closets pumping milk, but rather visiting their babies for large doses of love and serotonin before returning to their work and kicking ass.”

BRAVO, PATAGONIA!

If you're a mom and you work outside of the home, then you're probably highly aware of how much of an impossible balancing act it can seem at times. The logistical challenges are only magnified if you're a breastfeeding mother who needs to pump…

08/16/2019

PBS News Hour is looking for questions! Do you have one you’d like to share?

Send us your biggest parenting challenges -- Professor Emily Oster is answering your questions next week.