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PLACENTA VARIATIONS 🤰🩺

The placenta is an amazing organ that feeds and protects your baby — but did you know it can have different types and positions?

✅ Anterior Placenta – Attaches to the front wall of the uterus
✅ Posterior Placenta – Attaches to the back wall (most common)
✅ Fundal Placenta – Sits at the top of the uterus
✅ Low-Lying Placenta – Near the cervix; may require monitoring
✅ Placenta Previa – Covers the cervix; often needs C-section delivery

✨ Your healthcare provider will track the placenta to ensure a safe pregnancy and delivery.

Let’s talk about the Rhombus of Michaelis ✨

In active labor or transition, you may notice the mother’s sacrum starting to really stick out. This is the Rhombus of Michaelis becoming more pronounced as sacrum moves to accommodate the baby’s descend —and it’s a sign your pelvis is doing exactly what it’s meant to do.

As labor intensifies, the sacrum tips back, allowing the back of the pelvis to widen so baby can descend and rotate. This phase can feel intense, but it often signals deep progress.

✨ Movement matters, as it helped the sacrum to be flexible and move. Stuck sacrum = harder, longer birth!

Spinning Babies® positions, hands-and-knees, lunges, side-lying release, rebozo work, and hip squeezes support pelvic movement, help baby rotate, and bring relief.

Your body is amazing. It often guides you toward the movements you need—leaning, swaying, rocking, changing positions. A pronounced rhombus isn’t something to fix; it’s your body communicating and working with incredible wisdom. Check it out and feel it - you will be amazed!

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Over the last few months, I’ve had many conversations with providers, nurses, and fellow doulas—and they all keep pointing to the same thing: education.

Families today are lacking access to truly quality childbirth education. And honestly, I’ve been deeply disappointed in what is considered “mainstream” education in the Seattle area—especially hospital-based classes. Even when families attend these classes, the application piece is often missing.

On the big day, birthing parents go deep into labor land (as they should), and partners or support people suddenly forget everything that was taught—because it was never practiced.

So if I could give you one piece of advice for your birth prep, it would be this:
practice the application before birth.

Include your support people—partners, doulas, friends. Practice comfort measures. Practice communication. Practice decision-making under pressure. This matters. ❤️

At Seattle Birth Co, we dream of creating a space where families can experience childbirth education and hands-on application—together. We love preparing families for birth, and we love doing it as a team.

If this resonates with you, please reach out. We’d love to support you and help you learn, practice, and prepare with our doulas and providers.

✨ Birth education should prepare you for real labor—not just talk about it ✨