Badassmotherbirther

Badassmotherbirther My focus is teaching about rights and options in childbirth, and exploring normal physiological birth.

I am dedicated to spreading awareness and normalizing the birth process, and options.

09/25/2026

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Want an unmedicated birth?

I have an ebook for that. 📖

Planning an epidural but still want to know how to move, advocate for yourself, and get the most out of your birth experience?

I have an ebook for that too. 📖

✨ Tips for an Unmedicated Birth
✨ Tips for an Epidural Birth

And BOTH are available at a PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN price. ❤️

Because finances shouldn’t be the reason someone can’t access birth education.

Pay what you can afford. No shame. No judgment.

Preparation matters no matter HOW you plan to give birth.

Prepare for the birth you want.

Understand your options.

And know how to navigate the birth you actually have.

Birth education isn’t about preparing for one “right” way to give birth.

It’s about having tools, understanding your choices, and being prepared to pivot if your birth takes a different path.

You deserve information for YOUR birth regardless of your birth plan or your budget.

🔗LINK IN BIO🔗

—Love,
Flor Cruz

09/24/2026

Parental autonomy to birth at home will always take precedence over any medical recommendations, over any "guidance" of organizations. Only the person giving birth has the right to decide what's beneficial or not for them.

-Love,
Badassmotherbirther

Thank you
on IG
on IG

❤️ᕼOᖇᗰOᑎᗩᒪ ᑕᕼᗩᑎGEᔕ Iᑎ ᖴᗩTᕼEᖇᔕ❤️❖During pregnancy, just like the birthing mother, the expectant father also experiences c...
09/24/2026

❤️ᕼOᖇᗰOᑎᗩᒪ ᑕᕼᗩᑎGEᔕ Iᑎ ᖴᗩTᕼEᖇᔕ❤️
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During pregnancy, just like the birthing mother, the expectant father also experiences changes in hormone levels.
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A study was published in the America Journal of Human Biology conducted by Robin Edelstein. She swabbed the mouths of couples who were expecting their first baby throughout the pregnancy at 8 week intervals. They measured levels of testosterone, estradiol, cortisol and progesterone in both the expectant mother and father.
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What was discovered is that the expectant fathers testosterone and estradiol levels began to slowly decrease throughout the pregnancy. And not just that, they discovered that the levels of some hormones appeared linked to those of their pregnant partner. There is a form of interdependence happening amongst expecting couples.
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Once the babies were born, it was observed that the men that had the larger drops of testosterone levels seemed to be more engaged with their babies and also more supportive of their partners.
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Testosterone levels will continue to stay at a lower level during his life as a father and partner.
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Natures purpose in lowering a fathers testosterone levels is to keep him engaged with the infant, alert to baby’s needs, listening for baby’s cues, to behave more lovingly towards his baby and partner. This ensures the family unit and survival of the baby.
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Fathers need special care during pregnancy, birth and postpartum as well.
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Fathers are entering parenthood right alongside the mother and undergoing hormonal changes, too.
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To all the dads out there, 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐆𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒!
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Thank you Carla Formanek

09/24/2026

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If hospitals utilized upright positions and birth stools more routinely instead of making supine birth in the bed the default, we will see fewer interventions, including cesarean births.

Because position matters.

When a mother is upright, gravity can assist fetal descent instead of working against it.

Upright and mobile positions can also:

• Allow greater freedom of movement of the pelvis
• Create more space through different pelvic diameters depending on the position
• Help facilitate fetal rotation and descent
• Allow the mother to instinctively change positions in response to what they’re feeling
• Reduce prolonged pressure on major maternal blood vessels compared with lying flat on the back
• Give the sacrum more freedom to move than some bed-bound positions

This doesn’t mean everyone needs to give birth standing, squatting, or on a stool. Supine or semi-reclined positions may be comfortable, desired, or clinically appropriate for some people.

The issue is the default.

Instead of asking everyone to climb into a bed and birth on their back, imagine if the default was:

“Get into whatever position feels right. We’ll adapt around you.”

The birth environment should accommodate the mother instead of the mother accommodating the bed and staff.

-Love,
Flor Cruz
Flor Cruz

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Want to prepare for an unmedicated birth? 🔥

My Tips for an Unmedicated Birth ebook is packed with practical tools to help you prepare your body, your mind, and your birth environment for the experience you’re hoping for.

And because birth education should be accessible, it’s pay what you can afford. Grab your copy and start preparing. 🤎
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09/24/2026

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Teaching the art of watchful waiting is one that is well forgotten in modern obstetrics.
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We do so much with our hands on a daily basis and it feels natural to help the mother and baby with our hands in moments when it’s not needed or can cause unnecessary stress/harm.
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This is where the provider must learn to teach his/her hands to wait.
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This skill is one that is not taught very vigorously.
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But one of my favorites, on IG, teaches her students the art of watchful waiting and leaving the mother and baby to do their work.
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When they ask her why, she simply describes to them that birth is a natural process and most births proceed perfectly when you do less “helping”. You just watch.
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Watch how she guides her student to stay hands-off. She holds her hands on top of her students hands so she can feel that she needs to back off.
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She guides her students hands down to fully allow the baby’s head to drop and allow gravity to take over while giving baby all the freedom to maneuver out. This is the part where most providers get anxious and start pulling the baby out.
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But no, she instructs her student to stay backed off and wait.
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If you notice, once the baby’s head is allowed to completely hang, baby does one more tuck forward to move his shoulders in perfect position(👈🏻babies are active participants in birth)and suddenly his body releases from his mother.
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Assisting a normal physiological birth requires the skill of knowing that “LESS IS MORE”.

➳Use the love, intimacy and closeness it took for the baby to get into your womb, to get it out.➳Oxytocin is a hormone t...
09/23/2026

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Use the love, intimacy and closeness it took for the baby to get into your womb, to get it out.
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Oxytocin is a hormone that acts on organs in the body (including the breast and uterus) and as a chemical messenger in the brain, controlling key aspects of the reproductive system, including childbirth, lactation, human behavior and or***ms.
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We use it to give birth!
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It’s our natural form of pitocin, which is what is regularly given in hospitals to bring on and increase contractions.
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Unlike pitocin, Oxytocin has an intricate dance between your body and baby to give birth.
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We can increase the release of Oxytocin naturally during labor just by kissing or holding someone we love.
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It can decrease pain for the mother / birther as well.
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Oxytocin bonds us.
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In this photo, you see Oxytocin being released while the parents share a passionate embrace and kiss, bringing their baby closer to their arms.
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Romance and intimacy, is just as vital in birth, as it is in love making.
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09/23/2026

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🌿 Labor is not inherently harmful to your baby.

In fact, for most healthy pregnancies, labor is a normal physiological process that babies are biologically equipped to navigate.

And labor itself provides benefits to your baby.

During labor, your baby experiences a surge of stress hormones, particularly catecholamines like adrenaline and noradrenaline, that help prepare them for life outside the womb.

These hormonal and physical changes help:

🌿 Prepare the lungs for breathing.
Before birth, your baby’s lungs are filled with fluid. Hormonal changes associated with labor help signal the lungs to begin absorbing that fluid in preparation for air breathing.

🌿 Support the transition to life outside the uterus.
The catecholamine surge helps your baby adapt to the enormous physiological transition happening at birth, from receiving oxygen through the placenta to breathing with their own lungs.

🌿 Mobilize energy.
Labor hormones help increase the availability of glucose and other energy stores your baby can use during birth and immediately afterward.

🌿 Support cardiovascular adaptation.
Birth requires your baby’s circulation to dramatically reorganize as the lungs expand and placental circulation ends. The hormonal changes surrounding labor are part of that transition.

🌿 Help your baby become alert and ready to interact.
Those same catecholamines are one reason many babies arrive remarkably alert after birth, supporting early skin-to-skin contact and feeding behaviors.

And yes, contractions temporarily change blood flow through the placenta. That’s why babies have physiological mechanisms designed to tolerate the normal intermittent changes that occur during labor.

Labor is work for babies. But work is not the same thing as harm.

There is a difference between the normal physiological stress of labor and pathological fetal distress.

We shouldn’t teach families that every contraction is something their baby needs to be rescued from.

Labor is part of the physiological transition that prepares them to be born.

-Love,
Flor Cruz

✨My Tips For an Unmedicated Birth Ebook is downloadable and PWYC(pay what you can) price! Lin

✨Mother: Would like to remain anonymous✨She wrote me:"Hi Flor,Recently my breech baby was born. He needed some oxygen be...
09/23/2026

✨Mother: Would like to remain anonymous✨

She wrote me:

"Hi Flor,

Recently my breech baby was born. He needed some oxygen because of the umbilical cord was there as first. My boy was out in a few minutes though.

It was verry nice too see some pictures and films of breech birthings before I had mine. Thank you very much."

▣You absolutely can have a wonderful hospital birth experience. There are providers who are diligently working to provid...
09/22/2026

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You absolutely can have a wonderful hospital birth experience. There are providers who are diligently working to provide compassionate care with consent.
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Unfortunately this is not the norm within systems so you'll have to work towards finding these providers.
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This male midwife supported a hands-off hospital birth where baby was born partially encaul.
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The photographer writes:
"He walked in as she was standing and pushing and he sat on the floor encouraging her and respected her fully to move as she felt lead to, push where and how she wanted to, guide her own baby out, never did anything without her consent."
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-Love,
Badassmotherbirther
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09/22/2026

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We need to see more of THIS. 👏🏽

A larger woman, in water, moving freely, birthing her baby.

Because larger bodies are so often discussed in obstetrics as a risk factor before they are discussed as bodies capable of giving birth.

Higher BMI can be associated with increased rates of certain pregnancy complications. That deserves individualized, evidence-based care.

But an association is NOT a diagnosis.

A number on a scale cannot tell you whether THIS mother has gestational diabetes.

Whether THIS mother has hypertension.

Whether THIS baby is healthy.

Whether THIS labor will progress normally.

Or whether THIS mother is capable of having a vaginal, low-intervention birth.

And yet weight stigma in healthcare is real.

Sometimes larger patients enter pregnancy already expecting their bodies to be treated as a problem that needs to be managed rather than a body that deserves to be assessed as an individual.

Representation matters because larger women deserve to see themselves doing the things they are so often told their bodies cannot do.

Laboring freely.

Getting into the tub.

Moving their bodies.

Having physiologic births.

Catching their babies.

Giving birth without their size becoming the entire story.

A larger body is not a broken body.

Risk factors should inform care.

They should not erase autonomy, informed consent, individualized assessment, or the possibility of normal physiologic birth.

And sometimes seeing a larger woman peacefully birth her baby in water is a reminder that bodies do not have to be small to be powerful.

-Love,
Flor Cruz

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Want to prepare for an unmedicated birth? 🔥

My Tips for an Unmedicated Birth ebook is packed with practical tools to help you prepare your body, your mind, and your birth environment for the experience you’re hoping for.

And because birth education should be accessible, it’s pay what you can afford. Grab your copy and start preparing. 🤎
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