Inviting the health into this sacred transition & beginning

Supporting the birth & mothering experience holistically— re-thinking preventative care

 
 

pregnancy

Supporting the mind, body & spirit during this process— within a fearless space.

Within a space that acknowledges the power and wisdom of the female body.

Osteopathy is safe, non-invasive and effective at alleviating common symptoms during pregnancy, such as…

  • morning sickness

  • anxieties

  • back pain

  • muscle spasms

  • round ligament pain

  • tired legs

  • fatigue

  • edema

Treatments restore optimal pelvic motion to support babies position in-utero.

"birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have."

-Robin Lim

 

POSTPARTUM— the fourth trimester

Planning for postpartum care to honor the mother’s process into motherhood.

Osteopathic medicine supports a mother’s mind, body & spirit in recovery following a vaginal or cesarean birth.

Supporting the development of the nursing relationship & physical demands of care for a newborn.

Tami Lynn Kent’s, Holistic Pelvic Care™ modality is integrated after 6-weeks postpartum

 

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.

—Clarissa Pinkola Estes


newborn

Birth is birth. Regardless of the birth story, every newborn would benefit from an osteopathic treatment.

Acknowledging the algorithmic, fear-based, restrictive & one-size fits all model in our current medical paradigm for supporting women in their birth process, is allowed. Understanding the impacts this model of care has on the fetus & the newborn allows us to shift our perspective. The lack of autonomy and preservation, let alone belief, in the capacity for natural physiological function. In this acknowledgment, we allow the belief in necessity for preventative osteopathic treatment for our newborns.

Waiting until an issue arises is not preventative medicine.

Treating the newborn entails restoring their health to receive direction from their perfect blueprint. This is their birthright.

Restoring optimal neurological and fluid function.

Treating…

  • difficult or traumatic births

  • induced or medicated births

  • colic/fussiness

  • reflux

  • torticollis

  • plagiocephaly

  • latching/sucking challenges

After my daughter was born, it was then that I felt like i was a part of the living

—Dr. Sylvia Silberman DO

As a mother of daughters with two very different birth experiences, I can say with some wisdom that there is beauty and fluidity in the unpredictability of this transformational experience.

Birth is birth.

my 1st born was an unmedicated homebirth at The Farm in the rolling hills of Tennessee. My 2nd was a planned homebirth with a transfer for a C-section to Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.

What a Wild and transformational experience into motherhood.

Holding the space for ALL the beautiful medicine that is available to us.

Allowing autonomy & surrounding women with physicians who KNOW and understand their physiological magnificence.

 

“Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.”

— Ina May Gaskin, Spiritual Midwifery