SYA Birth

A baby’s habitat in the newborn phase is his or her mother’s body.

Breastmilk is all the nutrition and fluids that a baby needs for the first six months of life. As long as baby is gaining weight and producing enough waste, they are getting enough. Aim for 6-8 wet diapers a day and 1 poopy diaper every day during the first month.

Feeding on demand is the best way to maintain your milk supply.

Babies cannot be spoiled. They NEED touch, response, talk and love to grow and develop.

Keeping your baby close at night in a safe manner helps to establish healthy breastfeeding and reduces risk of SIDS.

Each baby grows and develops at different rates. It doesn’t do to compare your baby to others as long as they are in the “range of normal”.

Your parenting responsibilities begin AT conception. No one has a greater stake in the outcome of birth than the parents.

Babies are the sweetest little miracles from God 🩷🩵🩷🩵

Doesn’t it feel like a miracle?

In the first trimester alone, the baby grows over 40,000 times larger than the egg from which it started.

Your body grows a new organ and interacts perfectly with it to provide nutrition, oxygen and waste removal services to help your baby grow and thrive.

Your uterus grows up to 500 times larger during pregnancy and shrinks back down to normal within an hour from birth.

Your body knows how to work with the baby during labor, increasing oxytocin and endorphins, releasing the right amount of cortisol and adrenaline at the right time, while baby turns inside to come out in the last optimal position for birth. Pain is the guide that helps you to move and push baby down and out.

Your body knows how to design the perfect food for your baby to sustain them exclusively for the first six months, starting with the colostrum which is stocked full of antibodies to set up the baby’s gut micro biome, and the milk that satisfies thirst and hunger, changing hourly as it reads the signals of the baby’s saliva, even giving the baby antibodies to fight off illness and infection!

We truly are miracles from God.

Your body is capable of birthing your baby!

It is extremely unlikely that your body will grow a baby unable to be birthed vaginally.

Your body works with your baby in a mother/baby dance together during the labor and birth.

Maintaining a low intensity fitness level and healthy diet will help increase your chances of having a natural birth!

Believe in yourself and your ability to give birth.

Deep relaxation and surrender can help you to achieve an unmedicated, natural birth.

For 99% of women, your body is fully capable of feeding your baby! It takes dedication, proper knowledge and support.

You can do this mama! You were made for this.

BIRTH is TRANSFORMATIVE!

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Going through the intense processes of pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum truly transforms you, and is what leads you down the path to beautiful and challenging motherhood.

You CAN do this! I believe in you.