instinctive birth – placenta services kelowna Sara Spada 2019-02-03T03:41:25+00:00

WELCOME TO INSTINCTIVE BIRTH.

Need a little something for postpartum?

We have been proud to offer Placenta Encapsulation Services in Kelowna and the Okanagan Valley for 5 years,
and have proudly worked on over 220+ placentas!

We are NOW proud to announce that we are permanently partnered with All Birth . Kelowna
to ensure that placenta services continue to be broadly offered and of the highest excellence for all families.

More information can be found on the following Placenta Encapsulation page.

ALL BIRTH . PLACENTA SERVICES

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Kathleen Baker
1617 Pandosy Street
Kelowna, B.C

info@kelownabirth.com
250.317.0400

Check out this new FREE offering from local mama H

Check out this new FREE offering from local mama Hannah!
Join Hannah Day for an online 75 minute prenatal yoga class suitable for all trimesters, on Sunday, Jan 10, 2021 at 10 am, pst - FREE!
Movement is essential to feel good during your pregnancy. Also, connection with community is important for your emotional & mental health.
Hannah's been teaching prenatal yoga for almost a decade & she moved her classes online because of the pandemic. She was blown away at the positive impact these classes have had on expecting mamas.
Let go of fear, connect with your body & baby & feel empowered for your upcoming birth. @
Link in @birthprepyoga BIO to register for this FREE class. ❤
@communitymidwiveskelowna

this incredible image. look at that umbilical cord

this incredible image. look at that umbilical cord. so really really incredible 🙌🏻
@jennifermasonphotography via @birthbecomesyou

@allbirth_ #birth

•Vernix Caseosa• This babe is perfectly frost

•Vernix Caseosa•

This babe is perfectly frosted up with the birth frosting, called Vernix.

Why do we love vernix?
•It starts to form on your baby around 20 weeks gestation and is a protective coating for baby while travelling through the birth canal. baby picks up good bacteria and leaves behind overgrowth of bad bacteria
•vernix begins to shed near delivery time
and babies swallows vernix in utero. the same proteins found in vernix are the same ones found in breastmilk
•it smells like mama and helps calm baby
•it is an antibacterial agent that protects baby inside and outside of the womb
•keeps baby’s skin soft and supple
•protects babe from meconium exposure (baby’s first poop)
•it acts as an insulation by maintaining your baby’s body temperature. infants who are immediately washed have a significantly higher rate of heat loss
•acts as a lubricant and decreases friction during birth, reducing infant trauma
•most remaining vernix is absorbed within 24 hours but isn’t fully absorbed until 5-6 after birth

Delay the bath. really. we all have cultural ideas about needing to clean our things and ourselves but babies are clean. they don’t sweat and don’t smell. babies are clean and their skin is sensitive. and all the fluids they are exposed to during a vaginal birth is perfection and meant to be. plus that smell of your babe helps bring in the oxytocin and promotes bonding.

📷: @jessica_vi_photography

#abetterbirth #allbirth_ #allbirthdoula #kelownadoula #doulakelowna #allaboutbaby #kelownabirth #birthkelowna #newborn #infant #vernix

the birth story. how a birthing person experiences

the birth story.
how a birthing person experiences birth matters. how she is treated matters. how giving consent and withdrawing consent matters. how she is treated matters.
I’ve been moved deeply by my recent experiences with the stories of women and their partners. I have been so sad and mad (plus all beautiful range of happiness after that babe comes earthside) by the witnessing of the disconnect between woman as person (with feelings and body) and woman as the object of pathology, of practice, of invasive treatment without consent or gentle practice.
I wonder when we will become empowered to
know that our bodies are important. that our experience is important.
but more important, when will those caring for the birthing person have respect and trust in natural birth. respect for the process that often needs no management, that often needs to be left alone and not fixed.
how do we change minds of such an institutional
bias.
this is sitting heavy as I navigate (no big deal) how we can slowly shift the lens with which we view the birth process (right? no big)
#allbirth #allbirth_ #abetterbirth #informedconsent #midwifery #homebirth
#kelownabirth #birthkelowna #doula #birthdoula
#birth #midwives #doulas #birthsupport #birthchoices
#repost @evarosebirth 🙌🏻

Hi friends, All Birth is sooooo thrilled to introd

Hi friends, All Birth is sooooo thrilled to introduce Elise Ruel. You maybe know Elise. Do you know Elise? She has agreed to teach some of the All Birth classes, A Better Birth.
Come hang out with Elise on November 28 for a A Better Birth session. She will be teaching class that Saturday. She is fantastic and we love her. Lucky families and lucky us!
Check her out at: www.eliseruel.com

#allbirth #allbirthdoula #abetterbirth #birthkelowna #kelownabirth #radbirthworker #allaboutbaby #pregnancy #birthclasses #midwifery #homebirth #hospitalbirth #laboursupport #childbirtheducation #birth #infant #babies #birthworkers #birthwork
@eliserueldoulaservices

I am thrilled to see this in our community. Share

I am thrilled to see this in our community. Share this with anyone who needs it. @mandalamamas.community kelowna #onlineconnecting #community

•Pooping in labour• Let’s break this down

•Pooping in labour•

Let’s break this down and normalize the pooping in labour conversation.
Human mammals poop during labour. Most women have a lot of concern about whether or not they will poop during labour.
It is normal to poop, most women do and it is a physiological part of pushing your baby down.

When your wee babe emerges, their face is pointing toward your anus. This is for a good reason. Remember how nature knows what it is doing?
Contact with feces is an important part of the transfer of microbiome and with fluid exposure in the vaginal canal. Exposure to your poop helps your infant develop the start of important building blocks of gut health.

When women in labour feel the urge to poop, it is often baby’s head coming down. It is impossible to hold in your poop and push your baby down. Relaxing all your pelvic floor and breathing down is necessary.

Sometimes you won’t know you have pushed out some poop, it so normal and expected, your birth team just scoops or moves it away.

(Oh, and look at how this mom is touching her babes head as they emerge. This is such a wonderful motivator for some women.)

#allbirth #allbirthkelowna #allbirthdoula #abetterbirth #physiologicalbirth #infant #microbiome #allaboutbaby #kelownabirth #birthkelowna #poopinlabour

📷@dallasbirthphotographer #kraeimages

•Nuchal cord • a term used when babe crowns an

•Nuchal cord •
a term used when babe crowns and there is a cord around her neck. It is common and doesn’t bother babes.
#allbirth #allbirthdoula #nuchalcord #allbirthkelowna #birthkelowna #kelownabirth #abetterbirth #allaboutbaby #birth

Repost @catfancote.capturingbirth

Did you know that approx one third of babies are born with the cord around their neck? It’s usually no big deal. The vessels within the cord are protected by a squishy substance, called wharton’s jelly, so baby is still receiving oxygen via the cord until the cords stop pulsating or is clamped and cut

This beautiful family. This honouring of this birt

This beautiful family. This honouring of this birth and death, loss and gratitude. None of us who bore witness to this and heard the words Ashley wrote will never, ever forget.
My dearest client. friend. inspiring woman and most of all, selfless in her endeavor to let others know that you can handle anything that comes, and that you are not alone.
incredible storyteller and artist photographer and image taker
📷:
@krista.evans.photography
@malachitemidwives
#infantlossawareness #pregnancylossawareness #remembering

We shared this last year - and it resonated with s

We shared this last year - and it resonated with so many. So here it is again...

Repost• @the_practising_midwife_journal We’ve been watching in the side lines as candles burn in images for #babylossawarenessweek #waveoflight 💙
We have published articles from bereaved parents, and from midwives who specialise in caring for them. This post touched our hearts, and really says it all. Thank you 💙

Posted @withrepost • @dnaweiler14 I’m always posting about the two I have in our house, but it’s a bit harder to talk about the one we don’t have with us anymore. What do you say about a pregnancy loss? Eight weeks is such a short time to feel so many emotions for a child that is essentially smaller than a pea, and it doesn’t make logical sense to grieve so extremely for something that barely existed. But exist he or she did, and the emptiness left in their wake is one I sincerely hope you never have to feel - though realistically one in four known pregnancies will end in empty arms. If you’re one in four, I stand with you. You are not alone, and it’s okay for it to hurt and not make sense. You are strong and brave and loved, and you have the great capacity to love as only a mother can, which is why it hurts so badly. Here’s to you and your big heart - your motherhood is beautiful. #thechalkboardbible #pregnancyandinfantlossawareness #rainbowbaby #miscarriageawareness #miscarriage #pregnancylossawareness #babylossawareness #1in4 #iam1in4 #babylossawarenessweek #babylossawareness #letterboards

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