Davao Waterbirth

03/08/2025

🌸 You're Invited! 🌸
Birthing & Breastfeeding Prep: A Gentle Guide for Dabawenyas

Join us for a heartfelt and empowering online session designed especially for pregnant moms and their partners 💕 Let’s talk about birth plans, breastfeeding prep, and gentle support options available for you in Davao.

🗓️ Date: August 9, 2025
🕙 Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
📍 Where: Google Meet
🔗 RSVP & View Details:
👉 https://calendar.app.google/qqYxrX6QzSXE7Ugt9

✨ Hosted by Touch by Tere x Pumping Dabawenyas x Gentle Touch by Ilóy Allen
Celebrate World Breastfeeding Month with us! See you, mama 💫

02/08/2025

Ctto.

29/07/2025

Wondering when is the best time to feed?

25/07/2025

Eating and Drinking in Labor: A Step toward Reclaiming Autonomy in Birth by Mary Ann Lieser
Traditionally, women in labor have been able to eat and drink as they desired. Most birthing women still eat and drink in parts of the world where Western medicine hasn’t yet transformed traditional birthing practices. In colonial times, as Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America informs us, “female attendants provided food and drink for the laboring woman to keep up her strength, offering such things as toast, buckwheat gruel, mutton, broth, and eggs”
https://www.midwiferytoday.com/mt-articles/eating-and-drinking-in-labor/

24/07/2025

Now we know…

10/07/2025

10/06/2025

Amazing!

In 2008, during a gynecological surgery, Dr. Jacques Donnez managed to record something never seen before: the complete process of ovulation in a woman. The images show how a bulge forms in the o***y, followed by the opening of the follicle and the slow release of the egg, surrounded by a gelatinous substance. Unlike what was previously thought, this event is neither immediate nor explosive: it lasts about 15 minutes. The photographs, published in scientific journals, not only amazed with their visual value but also provided new insights into the human reproductive mechanism.

23/04/2025

Keep the sac intact!

𝐕𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐒𝐚𝐜

Velamentous cord insertion happens when the umbilical cord attaches to the membranes (amnion/chorion) rather than directly into the center of the placenta. The vessels then travel unprotected through the membranes before reaching the placenta. That means no Wharton’s jelly cushioning those vessels, making them more vulnerable to rupture.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫?

Because if those vessels are lying near the cervix (vasa previa), and the membranes are artificially ruptured, especially before the baby is engaged or labor is well underway, those exposed vessels can tear. And that can cause rapid fetal blood loss. It’s rare, but when it happens, it’s an emergency.

So what can we do 🤔

𝐊𝐄𝐄𝐏 👏🏽 𝐓𝐇𝐄 👏🏽𝐒𝐀𝐂 👏🏽𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐓 👏🏽

There is power in physiological labor. Keeping the membranes intact protects the vessels, the cord, and the baby, especially in cases where velamentous insertion or vasa previa go undiagnosed prenatally.

Letting the waters break on their own supports:
🌿Cushioning for baby (and those delicate vessels)
🌿Optimal positioning through pressure regulation
🌿Hormonal pacing of labor
🌿Lower risk of cord compression or prolapse

Your waters are not a ticking time bomb.

They’re a protective shield.

Don’t rush the rupture. Trust the process.

-Love,
Flor Cruz
Badassmotherbirther

𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞, & 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭!
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