From the WBWC Blog:

Month: September 2018

WBWC Sponsors Film Screening of “These Are My Hours”

Join us on Tuesday, October 16 from 7:30-9 PM for a screening of the birth documentary, These Are My Hours. These Are My Hours is an intimate sensory immersion into one woman’s physical, emotional and psychological experience of giving birth. It is the first documentary filmed entirely during a labor, told from the perspective of a woman giving birth. This documentary delivers the intimacy and intensity of childbirth as an expression of women’s empowerment in a way that reveals the special dignity of the event that ushers us all into life. The film will be followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Scott Kirschenbaum and the featured mother, Emily Render Graham. WBWC is a sponsor of this event, which will take place at UNC’s Mandela Auditorium in the FedEx Global Education Center, located at 301 Pittsboro Street in Chapel Hill.   For more information, visit https://thesearemyhours.com/.

Birth Story of Hayes Walter

By Lindsay Osterhoudt This baby is my fifth baby and also my fifth time using Hypnobabies to prepare for my birthing time. My babies have come into the world on or before their guess dates, anywhere from 37 weeks onward. I was hoping this little baby would do the same because the waiting is always the hardest part for me, especially in those last few weeks. After my guess date came and went, I kept repeating to myself, “Babies are born on their birthdays, not when doctors decide!” I scheduled an encouraging birthing massage with a fellow Hypnobabies instructor for a week after my guess date. My midwives did not seem very concerned but scheduled a non-stress test and ultrasound just to check on things approximately ten days after my guess date. Luckily, we never made it to either of those appointments… All of my nesting had been completed for weeks. The baby clothes were washed and put away. The baby diapers were neatly organized by the changing table. Many freezer meals were stocked in the freezer. I had been listening to “Baby Come Out” and done several “Fear Clearings” but yet baby was not ready. At 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 19, I put my older two children to bed and then I got a chill. I just couldn’t get warm despite putting on more substantial pajamas, so I went outside in the warm July air. That helped, and the feeling passed, so I got ready for bed while my husband took a shower. About 9:40 p.m. shortly after my husband got into bed I felt a wave. I had been feeling Braxton Hicks for more than a month, but this one felt slightly different. I got up to use the bathroom because sometimes that would help and then I could go back to sleep.  I returned to the bed and about 10-15 minutes later, I felt another wave.  This is when I started to think this could be the start of my birthing time, or things could just settle back down. Another 10-15 minutes passed, and I had my third wave. It was now about 10:15 p.m. and I thought things might be starting so I immediately got my headphones on and started listening to “Easy First Stage.” I also had my husband call his mother, so she could go and get her own mother who wanted to be … Read More

Birth Announcements

Welcome to the world, sweet babies!   *Oaklynn Ann Moore – July 21 – 8 lbs., 2 oz. *Nova Lynn Moynan Sluss – August 1 – 6 lbs., 9 oz. Leah Elisabeth Weber – August 1 – 6 lbs., 6 oz. Cecilia Heggen –August 6 – 6 lbs., 11 oz. Nathaniel Driskill – August 7 – 9 lbs., 13.5 oz. Ellen Beatrix Cummings – August 8 – 7 lbs., 14.5 oz. *Lowell Carter McNair – August 11 – 7 lbs., 13 oz. Eavan Marie Cannon – August 15 – 6 lbs., 8.5 oz. Aloah Mozelle Burney – August 15 – 8 lbs., 5 oz. Fox Ryan Leonard – August 15 – 8 lbs., 13 oz. Steven Kenneth Fagan III – August 18 – 8 lbs., 2 oz. *Henry Solomon Sapp – August 18 – 9 lbs., 9 oz. *Elsie Rose Cloniger – August 21 – 7 lbs., 14 oz. Zoë Victoria Jones – August 25 – 6 lbs., 11.5 oz. Uthman Soderstrom – August 25 – 10 lbs., 6 oz. *Ruby Annalise Mitchell – August 25 – 8 lbs., 6 oz. Gabriel Seth Wood – August 25 – 6 lbs., 3.3 oz. Caris Joyce Hanson – August 27 – 6 lbs., 12 oz. Kaelyn Faith Kromenacker – August 27 – 8 lbs., 13 oz. Noah Allen Perkins – August 29 – 8 lbs., 3 oz. Brea Lynn Thacker – August 31 – 8 lbs., 11 oz. . *pictured above  August stats Total babies born: 43 Biggest baby: 10 lbs., 6 oz. Smallest baby: 5 lbs., 13 oz. To be included in this celebratory list, please email Missy at missy@ncbirthcenter.org  with your baby’s birth announcement information that includes  their name, date of birth, and birth weight as well as a photo, if available. If you would like to send us your birth story along with photos, we are happy to include that in a future newsletter! Also, if you have a printed birth announcement to share, we’d love to have a copy to  add to our bulletin board in the clinic! 

WBWC Celebrates World Breastfeeding Month!

By Rebecca Costello, IBCLC MPH   Our first celebration was for World Breastfeeding Week with a “Milk and Cookies” theme. Honeysuckle Tea House hosted our party and even made a special lactation tea blend for us! We had a great time drinking milk (babies), eating cookies (the rest of us), and jamming to music with Erica from Jammin Baby, LLC. It was a hot day, but we had a great time! Click here for the link to the Facebook album. Thank you so much to Sunshine Scoville for the beautiful photography!   Our second celebration was for Black Breastfeeding Week. Tracey, who you all know well from your visits in the lab, did an awesome job of coordinating this! Moms and their families made nursing necklaces, got gorgeous henna tattoos, enjoyed tasty snacks, and had breastfeeding portraits taken by the wonderful Sarah Stanley from Love at First Sight Photography. Check out our group shot above, and there are more photos to come – stay tuned to our Facebook page.   Thank you to everyone who helped with and attended these events – we had a great time celebrating with you and your sweet babies! We’re already looking forward to next year.  

RSVP for WBWC’s Annual Birthday Party

Join Women’s Birth & Wellness Center as we celebrate another year of births and the founding of WBWC, North Carolina’s longest-operating free-standing birth center. This year, we’ll be celebrating at Briar Chapel’s Great Meadow Park with games, music with Erica Berry of Jammin Baby, and cake for the whole family. Bring along a picnic blanket or chairs,and plan to stay and play at the playground and park. Come reunite and celebrate with your WBWC midwives, staff and other WBWC families. We love to see your babies as they grow! Please RSVP to let us know if you’re planning to attend to help us get an accurate head count for refreshments. Hope to see you there! Who is invited: Any current or past WBWC patients, families and staff Where: Great Meadow Park in Briar Chapel at the corner of Beacon Ridge Blvd and Salt Cedar Lane in Chapel Hill When: October 27, 2018, 2-4 PM

New ACA Insurance Coverage

Good News: Women’s Birth & Wellness Center (WBWC) is part of the UNC Health Alliance and there are new 2019 Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans offered providing in-network coverage at WBWC! If you previously had coverage under Blue LocalSM with Duke Health & WakeMed, the plan has been replaced, and coverage will now be available through Blue ValueSM  with UNC Health Alliance.  Click here to read more: https://www.bluecrossnc.com/ready-to-renew.  If you have questions about open enrollment or billing, please call George Higgins at 919-951-1724.

What’s New at the Boutique

Big Pink Sale October 1 -31 Find Pink / Save Green 25% off all of these brands here, and MUCH MORE – including clearance! (not a girlie sale, a see if you can find this color on anything sale) *Not to be combined with other promotions or coupons