Understand Laboring Down: Wait to Push!

Undestanding Laboring Down So, you’re 10cm!! Completely dilated! It’s time to push! Wait… not so fast. There is more to labor than just dilation. We can decrease pushing time and conserve energy levels if we allow your body to labor down. What is laboring down? First, we need to explore a few concepts. The Fetal […]
Relative CPD: Is Your Baby Too Big??

Relative CPD Cephalopelvic Disproportion (CPD) is when the baby is too large for the pelvis, or the pelvis is too small for the baby, to descend through during birth. This may be the diagnosis after a prolonged pause in labor, lack of engagement (baby entering the pelvis), and eventual cesarean birth. Relative CPD: Is baby […]
Pushing Technique: The Pull

When it’s time to finally push, we may find a few helpful techniques can make a huge difference in the effectiveness of our pushes! Remember, pushing can be exhausting, so we want to make our efforts efficient. Let’s focus on the “pulling” aspect of pushing! We are usually cued to grab our legs, handles, scarves/sheets, […]
Prenatal Fitness 7 Guidances

Prenatal Fitness Guidance How should you approach prenatal fitness during pregnancy? Unfortunately, there isn’t a set “Yes v. No” list nor a strict timeline of when to do what, but there is general guidance we can provide! Here are our tips on how to approach prenatal fitness! 1. Do what you enjoy First, it’s important […]
Rowing During Pregnancy and Early Postpartum

Rowing is a great full body cardio exercise! However, we may need to modify how we approach rowing during pregnancy and then early postpartum. Here are some helpful tips on how to support your changing body and healing core during this phase of life. The typical rowing sequence includes extending in the legs, leaning backwards […]
4 Induction Tips from a Doula

Induction can be a scary topic! We have all probably heard horror stories on how long and drawn-out inductions can be; how painful and overwhelming they can be; and how many may lead to a birth you did not expect or want! But induction does not need to be scary! We tend to fear what […]
Coning During Pregnancy: What It Is and How to Fix It

Coning is when the center connective tissue of the abdomen, the linea alba, protrudes outwards beyond the rest of the abdominal wall. This tends to occur due to diastasis recti, or the normal occurring separation of the six pack abs during pregnancy.
Acronyms Related Pregnancy and Birth 5 Categories

Common Acronyms What are some common birth related acronyms?? There are a lot of two or three letter words being thrown around in social media posts or comments, it’s easy to get lost in the birth slang! Here are the common terms we tend to come across that are birth related! We will continue to […]
Mobility: How to Approach it?

Approach To Mobility When we feel pain or discomfort, we must approach to mobility and we may try to stretch or massage the location of our discomfort to attempt to relieve the pain. But, what if I told you that where we feel pain is maybe not the source of your pain? When our tissues […]