This is a great teaching aid, thanks for sharing! The part about the full term uterus gave me a vision of an Anne Geddies style photo of a newborn curled up in a watermelon, LOL 🙂
I love that picture of you holding my sweet friend, Emily’s, then baby Ryan! Ryan will be 3 in a few weeks. He looks like a churub with rolling blonde curls and chubby cheeks….
What a great, fun, easy to follow demonstration ~ and what an AMAZING organ. I was not aware that massage post-birth is not recommended (thanks for that tid bit). And I also did not know that the uterus is immediately the size of a grapefruit again. 🙂 Lots of learning today. Thank you for sharing your fruit demo, and for all you do for babies and their mothers.
Just saw on Twitter that someone tweeted it in German. So cute.
“Für alle, die sich schon immer gefragt haben, wie man das Wunderwachstum des schwangeren Bauches sichtbar machen könnte http://bit.ly/dhb8FM
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Hi Gloria – do you possibly have any additional info about massaging the uterus after the birth? Research, articles or texts which demonstrate the best way to or not to do it?
I only have my own experience of attending more than 1000 births and never doing it. I was never trained to “expel clots” and all that nonsense. In the medical model, that training is given and never questioned. A clot is a scab on the inside of the body. It is formed to stop internal bleeding.
Research, articles and texts on the subject will only be done within the medical paradigm. Homebirth midwives will give you the experience of what is normal.
Might you say… fruits of the labor? Brilliant demonstration, thanks for sharing the video!
This is a great teaching aid, thanks for sharing! The part about the full term uterus gave me a vision of an Anne Geddies style photo of a newborn curled up in a watermelon, LOL 🙂
wonderful! thank you! i love the thought of my uterus as a pear.
Fruit of the Womb! 🙂
I love that picture of you holding my sweet friend, Emily’s, then baby Ryan! Ryan will be 3 in a few weeks. He looks like a churub with rolling blonde curls and chubby cheeks….
What a great, fun, easy to follow demonstration ~ and what an AMAZING organ. I was not aware that massage post-birth is not recommended (thanks for that tid bit). And I also did not know that the uterus is immediately the size of a grapefruit again. 🙂 Lots of learning today. Thank you for sharing your fruit demo, and for all you do for babies and their mothers.
Oh that’s excellent!! I look forward to seeing if we can work this in to our birth classes!!!
Thank you for sharing!!
That was excellent. I already used the pear and watermelon as teaching aids, but I’ll adding a honeydew and a grapefruit for my next class. Thank you!
Just saw on Twitter that someone tweeted it in German. So cute.
“Für alle, die sich schon immer gefragt haben, wie man das Wunderwachstum des schwangeren Bauches sichtbar machen könnte http://bit.ly/dhb8FM
“
Hi Gloria – do you possibly have any additional info about massaging the uterus after the birth? Research, articles or texts which demonstrate the best way to or not to do it?
I only have my own experience of attending more than 1000 births and never doing it. I was never trained to “expel clots” and all that nonsense. In the medical model, that training is given and never questioned. A clot is a scab on the inside of the body. It is formed to stop internal bleeding.
Research, articles and texts on the subject will only be done within the medical paradigm. Homebirth midwives will give you the experience of what is normal.
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Hey, that is me in the background. In real time life right now, I am the size of a melon (well my uterus)
Isn’t that cute that you’re in the back of that pic, Lonnie? I’m so excited that you’re carrying another little being inside. Love you.