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Even in very hot weather your exclusively breastfed baby doesn’t need additional water, but they will probably want to breastfeed more. It's good to offer! https://www.llli.org/breastfeeding-info/water-supplements/

[Photo: a mother breastfeeding her baby in the sun; Text: It's normal for babies to breastfeed more often when the weather is hot.]

Thank you, Los Angeles Times for amplifying our research!

This study confirms what birthing people— especially Black, Brown, and Indigenous birthing people— already know: the perinatal care they receive is not caring.

Read the article → https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2022-06-24/pregnant-people-of-color-more-likely-to-experience-pressure-and-coercion-during-birth-study-finds

Read the study → https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/birt.12641

Register for our webinar → https://birthplacelab.org/voices

[Image description: a brown skinned pregnant person, with dark hair worn up in a bun and wearing a hospital gown, dabs at their face with a tissue and looks anguished]

"There is a phase in labor, appropriately called transition, where a wahine will reach her breaking point. She'll feel as though she can't go on. She's right. The kōhine (maiden) in her is not strong enough for the task at hand. It's during this time the kōhine dies so that the wahine can be reborn as a māmā, with her pēpi. A new, more capable version of herself with far more strength than she has ever known. From Kōhine to Māmā."

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It's only natural!

"The first study known to examine the infant mortality risks for all babies delivered by certified nurse midwives in the United States shows excellent birth outcomes for these midwife-attended deliveries."
"After controlling for a wide variety of social and medical risk factors, the risk of experiencing an infant death was 19 percent lower for births attended by certified nurse midwives than for births attended by physicians"
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/98news/midwife.htm
If you would like to know if Midwifery care is right for you, book a free consultation today. Call our office at 661-733-6945, or send an email to [email protected]
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Serena Williams Writes Powerful Essay On How She Almost Died After Giving Birth The tennis superstar detailed how she saved her own life by pushing back against hospital staff after they told her she was “crazy.”