Over the years, supporting home deliveries, hospital deliveries, birth center deliveries, medicated and unmedicated vaginal deliveries, and C-sections, my philosophy has evolved but the groundings remain the same. There are solid evidence-based practices and values that support the way a mother should and can labor. Here are just a few...

• A mother has the right to choose her birth desires in a birth plan and alter them at anytime

• Proper nutrition, sleep, and support are crucial to all phases of pregnancy and delivery

• Eating during early labor is for fuel and strength

• Laboring in the comfort of your home as long as possible helps with relaxation, dilation, and overall morale

• Delivering vaginally and unmedicated is just as much mental as it is physical

• The ability to remain mobile and to labor how you feel is significant 

• Push in the position best for you and for optimal openness

• 10 centimeters does not mean time to push. Allow the body to naturally tell you when it feels the urge to push

• Having medical interventions and/or a C-section does not make you a failure or any less of a parent

• Postpartum support and care is extremely underrated and needs as much planning if not more as your birth

• Breastfeeding needs patience, support, and a comfortable space to express your feelings

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