Placerville Midwifery

Please share with anyone in the community who may be interested! "Cedar Springs is planning our reopening for the 2021-2022 school year. We are currently deter...mining interest for either private school, enrichment homeschool model, or some combination. We expect to determine openings and which form CSWS will be taking by early March and will contact interested families. If you are interested in attending CSWS this fall for one or more of these options, please fill out the form below and our Admissions Office will contact you with further information." See more

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This is a survey regarding experiences with pregnancy and childbirth during Covid. Please fill it out if it applies to you!

Now it should go without saying but, you know, this is the internet in 2020, so I'll spell it out... If you choose to introduce a bottle for whatever reason tha...t's cool. That's your choice and it's perfectly valid. Top tip- if you're introducing a bottle check out paced bottle feeding. This can help reduce the risk of baby developing a bottle preference. And paced bottle feeding is now recommended for all babies even if they are exclusively bottle fed. If your circumstances mean that you need to introduce a bottle that is absolutely OK, understandable and valid. This image is taking aim at the myth that families who do not want or need to introduce a bottle must do so because it's the only way for partners to help out, and bond with their baby. Not just partners either, grandparents, aunts, uncles, freakin second cousin Doris twice removed on your fathers side.... Sorry I digress. But many families are coerced into introducing bottles against their will by this myth even when they don't want to because it's something they're told they must do. The fact is there are many ways partners and friends and relatives can help out that have nothing to do with bottles. Cook, clean, shop, do dishes, do laundry, offer to take baby for a walk while mum showers...Honestly letting mum sit down with a cup of tea, a plate of food, and put her feet up while she feeds the baby and you run a mop over the kitchen floor is likely to be far more helpful than you sitting on your bum feeding the baby while she loads the dishwasher. Ditto bonding. You can have skin to skin give cuddles, you can wear baby in a sling and take them for a walk, you can bath them, change nappies, sing to them, talk to them, baby massage...Literally everything except feed them. If you did everything except breastfeed then you would be the primary carer. You do not need to bottlefeed in order to bond.

I am looking for donor breastmilk for a new baby. Family lives in Auburn, thank you!

I feel so blessed to be a part of such a warm, supportive midwifery community. These midwives (and more not pictured) are amazing and we are sharing the love to each and everyone of you.

Here is another great opportunity for a free childbirth education class! I am so excited to invite you (and your mama friends and clients) to join me for a fre...e 6-week online course + ongoing support group. I'll be providing mamas with the information, tools, and resources needed for a healthy pregnancy, powerful birth, and nourished postpartum in this landscape and beyond. This program is based on my 36 years as a midwife, herbalist, medical doctor board-certified in family medicine with obstetrics, a mama of 4 and a grandmama. The course and all group activities will happen on this private Facebook page - make sure to join the page here. The course will include: Once or twice weekly live (online) events with me and occasional guests and recordings of all the events so you can rewatch at any time. A calendar for the next two weeks is already posted on the Facebook page. Ongoing access to a private Facebook group where you can ask your most pressing questions, and connect with other mamas. Regular support from me and my colleagues and integrative medicine graduates including midwives, MDs, CNMs, lactation consultants, pediatricians, and more Supplemental PDFs + video tutorials on dozens of topics from natural medicine to supportive birth techniques The first class will take place today at 1 PM ET on Zoom and on the FB group page. You can watch it from either place. Here's the Zoom link for today's class. Going forward, the Zoom links will be posted on the FB group page. See more

Sacramento area Julia Piazza is offering a free 8 week prenatal yoga program on YouTube! https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCb0CHZvsh_q4k-GrIQrRC6A

Calling El Dorado County Birth workers!! Come join El Dorado County Birth Professionals! Applications close at the end of March!

Join Rebecca in bringing Mama's together remotely!

No woman should have to birth alone, yet the right to have support during labor and birth by a partner or doula is being stripped away in hospitals due to COVID...-19 precautions. As if facing COVID-19 and social distancing wasn’t enough to worry about, this is causing pregnant women incredible anxiety - and even despair - at a time when they should be able to prepare to welcome their baby. While there is a lack of definitive evidence of increased infection risk from having a partner or doula present in labor or at birth, there is evidence of increased risk to the mother and baby from lack of adequate emotional, psychological, and physical support during labor, including longer and more painful labor, greater need for pain medication, interventions, and cesarean section. Further, lack of perinatal support is associated with greater risk of postpartum depression. These risks are further increased for people of color, who are already at higher risk of perinatal complications. Today I am launching the #Ideservebirthsupport campaign in order to raise awareness of a woman’s right to have support during her labor + birth experience and in turn, have hospitals recognize that labor and birth support is a proven, important factor in the health of mothers, babies, and thus, families. Your help is really needed. If you can, I would love your support. Here's how: 1. Post a photo that depicts your birth journey (pregnant, in labor, birthing, you and your baby after birth, etc.) and explain in the caption why having support during your labor and delivery was so integral to your health. 2. Use the hashtag #ideservebirthsupport and tag me @avivaromm 3. If you’re feeling the birth activist spirit, contact the COO of your hospital, anyone you know in media, your mayor, your governor, your state senator, and ask your OB or midwife to advocate for you. Explain why birth support is so essential for your wellbeing, and the health of your baby and family. And while it may feel like you’re alone right now, please know, you are not. Tomorrow, on my next Women’s Wellness Office Hours at 2 PM ET I’m going to share how I and other women are going to support you through this time.

Here is some more information about Coronavirus in pregnancy:

The World Health Organizations guidance on Covid-19 for pregnancy and the postpartum period. The WHO published interim guidance on March 13, 2020, here. There is little research on the clinical presentation of COVID-19 in pregnant women and children.... There have been a few cases of infants with COVID-19 and they experienced mild illness So far, there is no evidence of mother-to-baby transmission, and when researchers tested women who were infected, the samples of amniotic fluid, cord blood, vaginal discharge, newborn throat swabs, and breast milk have all been negative. Some reports of PROM (premature rupture of membranes), fetal distress, and preterm birth have been reported when mothers became infected in the third trimester The mode of birth should be individualized and Cesarean used only when it is medically justified Standard infant feeding guidelines should be followed with appropriate precautions for infection prevention and control. These standard guidelines include initiating breastfeeding within 1 hour of birth and continuing to exclusively breastfeed for 6 months, continuing breastfeeding up to 2 years or beyond. Infected mothers who are breastfeeding or practicing skin-to-skin should wear a medical mask, perform careful hand hygiene, and clean and disinfect all surfaces. Infected mothers should still be provided with breastfeeding support. If complications prevent the infected parent from breastfeeding, they should be encouraged and supported to express milk for the infant for someone else to feed to the baby or to maintain milk supply. There should be no promotion of breastmilk substitutes (formula) or pacifiers. The WHO states, Mothers and infants should be enabled to remain together and practice skin-to-skin contact, kangaroo mother care and to remain together and to practice rooming-in throughout the day and night, especially immediately after birth during establishment of breastfeeding, whether they or their infants have suspected, probable, or confirmed COVID-19.

CORONAVIRUS + BREASTFEEDING Can you continue to breastfeed if you get coronavirus? Yes. Those who become infected shortly before giving birth and then begin bre...astfeeding, and those who become infected while breastfeeding, will produce specific secretory IgA antibodies and many other critical immune factors in their milk to protect their nursing infants and enhance their infants’ own immune responses. At this time, these immunologic factors will aid their infants’ bodies to respond more effectively to exposure and infection. Following good hygiene practices will also help reduce transfer of the virus. If someone who is breastfeeding becomes ill, it is important not to interrupt nursing. The baby has already been exposed to the virus and will benefit most from continued breastfeeding. #coronavirus #COVID19 Find links to more information at: https://lllusa.org/coronavirus-and-breastfeeding/ [Image: Electron micrograph of infectious bronchitis virus. Text: Coronavirus + Breastfeeding] See more