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07/08/2022

Tomorrow I’m 34 weeks pregnant and will be taking a break from my work emails and social media to focus on my bubble of peace and birth preparation. If you’d like to follow along non my journey into parenthood, my personal page is

🤍 thank you for all your love and support.

06/28/2022

Oxytocin✨💖

Oxytocin is present in any condition that is related to love: when we are making love, when we are in love, when we feel good, calm, in intimate settings with our friends or with our relatives.

The oxytocin that is released in the brain during childbirth and lactation increases the mother’s capacity for social interaction, induces a sense of calm and makes her feel good. She becomes less stressed and more relaxed. Oxytocin is effective also in the male brain; men release this hormone if they are with their partner during labor, but in lower quantities. They become less fearful, looked more into the eyes of others and are more cognizent of other’s emotional state. They become more trusting and generous. This happens because oxytocin activates several areas in the brain related to social interaction.

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05/09/2022

Postpartum check-in with my twins today. PP visits are so bittersweet; I love seeing the families cozy and settled in their homes, but after months of support and building relationships, “see you later(s)” are tough! So happy for this beautiful family, I love this work.

05/04/2022

Six months pregnant myself and this post really resonated with me. Coexisting with grief and joy. ✨

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“Saying goodbye to a loved one while simultaneously experiencing the joy of welcoming another into this world is the great cycle of life. It is also my most challenging season to date.

I can’t help but think this was the universe’s plan all along, knowing I would need other worldly joy to cushion the blow of losing one of the most important people in my life. Yet, this is proof that love, life and loss can profoundly exist all at the same time.

Gram, I miss you every day. Little one, we are so excited to meet you. I breathe a sigh of peace knowing you two are already connected in such a cosmic way.”🕊🤍

05/03/2022

That Shower✨

The water tinges pink, or pools bright red as a stark reminder of all you have just achieved.

You ache and move tentatively, for all your body has just been through. So strong, but so fragile.

You body feels empty for the first time in the best part of a year,

But you heart feels more full than it’s ever been before.

You are alone in this room, silent but for the crashing of water ringing in your ears.

This white noise accompanying the melody of joy, shock, love, overwhelm singing through your body.

You mind whirs, your future flashing before your eyes, your immediate past replaying like a movie in your head.

Did that really just happen?

Did you really just do that?

Life has just changed forever in a moment.

You are a mother now.

You have a baby now.

Your baby.

Now.

The responsibility heavy, the relief overwhelming, the excitement buzzing, the exhaustion crushing, the love exploding.

As the warm water hits your face, streams down your back and washes down the drain, the old you fades with it.

They say when you give birth, a mother is born as well as a baby. But I’m pretty sure that mother me was born in that shower.

You’ve been to the moon, and you’re coming back to yourself. So still in your bathroom womb.

The world still buzzing behind the door.

You’ll step out of that shower, transformed.

You’ll never feel so full and so empty, so much and so little, so wild and so calm as you do in that shower.

That shower you will never forget.

I think there are only 2 showers in my life that I vividly remember taking. The showers after the births of both my babes. Those showers.

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04/29/2022

Fetal-maternal microchimerism✨

“When pregnant, the cells of the baby migrate into the mothers bloodstream and then circle back into the baby, it’s called “fetal-maternal microchimerism”.⁠
For 41 weeks, the cells circulate and merge backwards and forwards, and after the baby is born, many of these cells stay in the mother’s body, leaving a permanent imprint in the mothers tissues, bones, brain, and skin, and often stay there for decades. Every single child a mother has afterwards will leave a similar imprint on her body, too.
Even if a pregnancy doesn't go to full term or if you have an abortion, these cells still migrate into your bloodstream.
Research has shown that if a mother's heart is injured, fetal cells will rush to the site of the injury and change into different types of cells that specialize in mending the heart.
The baby helps repair the mother, while the mother builds the baby.
How cool is that?
This is often why certain illnesses vanish while pregnant.
It’s incredible how mothers bodies protect the baby at all costs, and the baby protects & rebuilds the mother back - so that the baby can develop safely and survive.
Think about crazy cravings for a moment. What was the mother deficient in that the baby made them crave?
Studies have also shown cells from a fetus in a mothers brain 18 years after she gave birth. How amazing is that?”
If you’re a mom you know how you can intuitively feel your child even when they are not there….Well, now there is scientific proof that moms carry them for years and years even after they have given birth to them.
I find this to be so very beautiful.“
I told you it was science. 👏🏻

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04/28/2022

I feel like crying.

As would say, “the f**kery needs to stop.”

Sitting in the hallway, 6 months pregnant myself, waiting to be “allowed” to see my clients. Waiting here at Cedars-Sinai] unable to join my client who is in the OR having twins. A sudden change in her birth plan shuffled her plans for a vaginal delivery, to a cesarean section.

I’m not allowed in.
I would be allowed in for a vaginal delivery, but not a cesarean.

Families who have cesareans deserve support. I’ve been working with this client since she was in the beginning stages of her second trimester, but for some reason I’m not considered a vital support birth in her birth here.

She didn’t meet her nurses or anesthesiologist until today. They don’t know where she’s from, or how her and husband met.

We spoke to everyone we could. She wrote a letter to the board. We advocated with the anesthesiology team, the charge nurse, the OB.
“No visitors allowed in the OR.”

But, I’m not a visitor. I’m her Doula. I’ve spent hours in prenatals with her, combing over a birth plan, weighing out her options, walking her through what to expect, holding her hand when she felt overwhelmed with sudden news. I sat by her side at 6am this morning and doing breath work with her when they prepped her and inserted her IV.

I hugged her tight and told her “you’re going to be okay. I’m going to be right outside. I’ll see you soon. I won’t leave.”

To the medical team, it’s just another day, and you’re just another person having a cesarean. “You’re one of six today!” Said the nurse.

But, to the “patient,” my client…the birthing person, it’s arguably the biggest day of her life.

Client care — client advocacy — your birthing experience, you have a say. When you weigh out your options, consider this experience. Today is one of many cesareans for the team. But for me, and my client, it was a formative experience, that could have made a world of difference to have another trusted person in her birthing environment.

, Tarzana Providence (a Cedar’s affiliated hospital!!!), St. John’s, and many more Los Angeles hospitals are allowing Doulas back in the OR…

What gives Cedars-Sinai] ?

04/25/2022

Who else is due this Summer? Where are my July-September babies at?

04/20/2022

“Dear newly postpartum Mama,
Rest.
Rest more than you think you need.
And then rest even more.

Your magnificent body took 10 months to open, transform and grow your beautiful babe.

Your organs are completely rearranged.

Your bones have shifted.

Huge dramatic changes are happening on a cellular level.

You may feel well but give your body the respect and reverence it deserves.

Allow your body the time and space it needs to heal and transform anew.

When we deeply rest and stay in bed naked skin to skin with our babes, our bodies, emotions, spirit, and our baby’s body, emotions, and spirit will reap the deep rewards of true rest. It is the physiological design of postpartum. When you truly rest oxytocin and prolactin will flourish.

So rest Mama, please! Do not give in to the pressure of culture and society. Honor yourself and your baby. Stay home and in bed for atleast 6 weeks. You deserve it!”
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04/18/2022

Why Don’t We Talk About Sensual Pregnancy?

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Here I am in full bloom, roundness and juiciness. It’s a different experience for me. Feeling the feminine power at its peak, dripping earthly sensualness, and abundance of life, I’ve never felt s*xier! 🤭

Women are the embodiment of Mother Earth. The quintessential mother has infinite s*xual, life-giving, and maternal capabilities. Growing a human is sacred, direct and animalistic and it makes you feel super powerful.

Every women has been forbidden from being actively s*xual, taking up space, and roundness. S*x offers us personal growth and new life. So why aren’t we also allowed to feel s*xy when pregnant?

Pregnancy is most definitely s*xual, despite the fact is mostly how babies are made. Hormones like estrogen increase during this time so it increases our s*x drive. However, Its not often that we see woman embracing or talking about this side of their pregnancy.

Like it’s wrong to think about pregnancy as s*xy? Speaking to many women I’ve found often they feel rejected by their partners during this time because of their bigger bodies, also and probably because of this women carry a lot of shame about their bodies changing about becoming fuller and bigger. For most of us women though it’s the time we feel the most powerful, we crave the most intimacy, the time we are the most vulnerable and definitely feeling more s*xual desire and sensual than ever.

What are you thoughts on this? Would love to hear your stories and how you feel about a sensual pregnancy.

Loving this set from 🖤
📸 who makes me feel the s*xiest always!

04/15/2022

Rest✨

Birth is a wild ride. Some flow through hours of waves, settling into rhythm & ritual - while others are fooled with a gentle start only to be caught by the deepest throws labor has to offer.

This Mama here kept apologizing, thinking she wasn’t handling things well. Meanwhile, she was flying through transition and following everything her body asked of her - a serious strength brought to the surface.
Energy high, oxytocin rushing, her home filled with the primal roars only labor can bring. Baby going the extra mile and fracturing her tailbone (for the second time after her first labor!)

Yet only minutes later, we have these quiet moments of rest. Slow breaths, your work is done. Meeting your new stranger, having your first meal, warm tea, feeling like the past few hours are already a strange fuzzy memory.
Your strength is palpable to everyone in the room.

Birth is a wild ride. I’m so thankful to have a job where I can make those fuzzy memories just a little more clear and tangible, and to share with you all how incredible it can be.

✶ The Mama photographed here is also an incredible photographer, you can find her work here ✶

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