Sheri Gorman Birth and Postpartum Services

New season, new month, new website🎉✨ Just over a year ago I left the classroom and stepped fully into birthwork! While I’ve been doing this work off and on for the past 5 years, I finally have a website to share and I couldn’t be more excited to continue to do this truly humbling work supporting families! Please check it out and share!

https://www.sherigorman.com/

These are such great tips!

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👶🏽 𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐍𝐘-𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐔𝐏 𝐁𝐀𝐁𝐘 👶🏽

OP(occiput posterior) or more commonly known as sunny-side up baby, is a position where the baby is facing the birthers abdomen instead of facing their spine. The back of the baby’s head, which is the hardest part, rests on the birthers lower back. This position should NOT automatically warrant a cesarean.

MANY BABIES ARE BORN JUST FINE VAGINALLY IN THIS POSITION BUT CAN CAUSE THE FOLLOWING:
⭕️longer pregnancy
⭕️premature rupture of membranes
⭕️slowing of labor which can lead to use of Pitocin
⭕️back of baby’s head is applying pressure to birthers lower back/spine and causes more pain
⭕️pushing baby out can be harder and longer
⭕️vacuum/forcep assistance
⭕️vaginal tearing
⭕️cesarean

WHAT CAN YOU DO DURING PREGNANCY TO POSSIBLY AVOID AN OP BABY?
❇️SIT UP STRAIGHT! THE BACK OF THE BABYS HEAD IS THE HEAVIEST, SLOUCHING ALLOWS GRAVITY TO PULL THE BACK OF HIS HEAD TOWARDS YOUR SPINE!
❇️Spend time everyday sitting on a birthball
❇️Get into a hands and knees position twice a day for 10 minutes
❇️When sitting make sure your knees are always lower than your hips and lean forward instead of leaning back
❇️If you sit a lot for work, take regular breaks to get up and move around. ditch the office chair for a birth ball
❇️See a chiropractor

WHAT CAN YOU DO DURING BIRTH:
✅Keep active during labor
✅Utilize positions that open your pelvis and allows your baby room to rotate
✅PATIENCE! Lots of babies will rotate out of this position during labor with just using patience
✅Use of epidural can often lead to an OP baby(from less mobility), but sometimes if baby is ALREADY in an OP position for an extended amount of time, an epidural can help relax the pelvic floor and allow baby to turn.
✅HIRE A DOULA! They can help you with exercises to turn your baby naturally(like lunge positions, knees to chest, forward leaning, etc etc) or they might have skills with a rebozo to turn your baby!

Some babies are born OP with ease and some require help to navigate ❤️

It’s World Doula Week and I’m on baby watch🙄 Will I have my first “doula week” baby this week?!

As of Tuesday, fully vaccinated💉

Big sibs are the best🥰

First dose done and second dose is scheduled! Smiling under the mask and grateful for science and the added safety this will provide for families I work with in the future!

Skin to skin benefits 🤩
Besides the joys of snuggling a newborn, there are tons of benefits to immediate skin to skin after labor!
🌟Improves heart and lung function in your newborn
🌟Stabilizes body temperature
🌟Regulates baby's blood sugar
🌟Increases bonding between you & baby

Did you have skin to skin time with your babies? Let us know! ⬇️

SO much love and joy❤️

If all babies were welcomed into the world with this much uninhibited joy, power, love, and relief!
Oh, we could heal some things.

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