Dallas Birth

✨JOY✨
✨LAUGHTER✨
✨AWE-INSPIRING RESILIENCE ✨
✨NEW CONNECTIONS✨
✨TEAMWORK✨
✨BLESSED✨

🩷Thank you 2024🩷

Bring it on, 2025!✨

Nikki and Becky

✨The Dive Reflex ✨

For people considering a water birth, a question we often get asked is:
“What causes the baby not to breathe under water when they are born?”
It is because of something called the “Dive Reflex.”

Healthy babies have a dive reflex that prevents them from taking their first breath until they are exposed to air.
A baby being born underwater must be born fully underwater and not exposed to cooler temperatures.(Nutter et al. 2014b).
Once the baby’s head emerges from the water, it’s essential to keep the head above water to ensure they can breathe properly.
This transition is critical for the baby’s safety and well-being during a waterbirth.
This is one of the reasons it is recommended to have skilled providers for a safe waterbirth.
Midwives can assess the mother’s and baby’s health, monitor for any complications, and ensure that both are stable before proceeding with water birth.

Proper training and experience help minimize risks and enhance the overall waterbirth experience.

There you have it! The term of the day is “dive reflex.”
Happy waterbirthing! 💦💦💦💦



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Postpartum Visits are the best!
They provide space for connecting, answering questions, support and basically lots of smiles and laughs.

✨Party of Five✨

We love watching our Dallas Birth families GR🌻W!

The “band is back together again” for baby #3 with this precious family!
And this time they are having a 💗BABY GIRL!💗
Her big brothers are very excited and so are mom and dad.

Looking forward to her BIRTHday!

-Midwife Becky

✨The Journey✨

Making the decision to have a home birth with a midwife is usually made after a lot of research, chatting with trusted resources, interviews to find the right “fit” for you, and a lot of processing.

For many families that come to us, they have had a hospital birth or two or maybe they had a baby at a birth center, and then decide that they are ready for their home birth.
Everyone’s journey is different before they walk through our doors.
There isn’t a right way or wrong way to do things.
It is all a part of your story, your journey, that led you to midwifery care.

We are so thankful for our families that trust us to care for them.
Personally, I am so grateful that this sweet, remarkable family that chose midwifery care for baby #4.
I loved having our chats together and getting to know and involve the older children during appointments.
And I am so thankful for a healthy mama who was able to finally have her home birth, surrounded by so much love and support!

More stunning pics to come!


-Midwife Becky

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