Sensible Birth - Birth Education

02/20/2026

FASCINATING!!

When I think about breastfeeding, I think about my baby’s little face looking up at me. The cuddles. The way they relax into my breast. The bonding. The closeness.

I don’t usually sit there thinking about the science of it all.

But sometimes it hits me… my breasts literally make milk😳 Like literally make MILK !!

When my baby latches, nerves in my ni**le send a message to my brain. My brain releases prolactin to make milk and oxytocin to let it flow. A tiny human suckles… and my body responds. In real time.

My brain and my breasts are in constant communication. My baby cries, and sometimes I can feel it before they even touch me.

It’s not just sweet. It’s not just emotional.

It’s biological. It’s intelligent. It’s my body adapting, responding, producing exactly what my baby needs.

I’m not just holding my baby.
I’m feeding them with something my body created.

And that will never stop amazing me ❤️

01/21/2026

Fascinating!!! 🥚

These are the clearest pictures of human ovulation we have to date. It was originally thought to be a quick process where the egg bursts out of the o***y. Instead, it took over 15 minutes for the o***y to fully release the egg. This was discovered accidentally during an examination for hysterectomy.

07/25/2025

Seriously. Friends pumping so much they can donate. Me, just barely enough to feed the child!

05/25/2025

The Ring of Fire

The edge of becoming burns red.

At the gateway between worlds, where breath holds and time stutters, the skin flushes with ancient memory.

It is not injury, but invocation.
A gathering of blood, heat, and life at the sacred seam where a mother opens and a child begins.

The perineum, stretched to its limit, glows with a fire older than language. Not because it is broken, but because it is becoming.

Red like first light.
Red like power.
Red like the veil lifting between before and after.

And still, the body knows the way.

-Love,
Flor Cruz
Badassmotherbirther

03/21/2024

Sharing it all forward:

Never worth this. If you’re still on the fence, keep researching. And above all, listen to your gut.

Start here:

• Your Whole Baby
• Your Whole Baby: A Community for Learning
• Little Images
• Beyond the Bris
• American Circumcision

03/07/2024

“Did you know that Mayan families in Guatemala, consider bedsharing to be the only way to parent through the night?

Did you know that in Japan, breastfeeding and shared sleep (soine) is seen as a means to sustain connection through touch or ‘skinship’ between mother and child?

Did you know that In Bali, babies’ feet don’t touch the ground until 3 months of age?

Yet, we’re told in western culture that our babies need to sleep on their own, that we need to get our babies on a schedule and that we can ‘spoil’ them if we pick them up ‘too much’.

One of my favourite cross-cultural pieces of research to share to help us challenge the mainstream parenting narrative, comes from Dr. Charlotte Peterson. She spent forty years traveling the globe to live with local families and witness parenting practices in peaceful cultures. She observed that in Bali, babies are seen as a blessing.

At three months of age, there is a ceremony called Tiga Bulan or “three moons”. It is not until the celebration of this ceremony that a new baby’s feet touch the earth. Until that point, the baby is considered “of the heavens” and is constantly held in someone’s arms.

After the ceremony, the baby is considered “of the earth”. Although a baby can be put down and “out of arms” at this point, Charlotte has rarely seen a Balinese infant or toddler not being held or closely watched, by her parents or family members, within those first three months.

For me, it feels validating to gain a different perspective, reminding us that our instincts to hold our babies close are ancient, wise and innately human. I seek out research like this as it allows me to better understand the difference between social norms & what’s best for our babies.”

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