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Emily Wannenburg 10/14/22 Emily Wannenburg 10/14/22

The Purple Line of Labor progression: Myth or Magic?

Updated 10.14.2022 As a doula, I do not do internal cervical exams. EVER. But there are a lot of “tools” in my toolbox to help me have a good guesstimate of how far along a client is progressed in her labor. One of them is The Purple Line. Do you believe me? Is it Myth? Or Magic?

Emily Wannenburg 2/27/22 Emily Wannenburg 2/27/22

How to open the pelvis for labor and birth

Fetal Position. Station. Inlet. Outlet. Vertex. Breech…What do they all mean? They all have one thing in common: Birth. Read on to find out more about how to facilitate the progression of labor by learning a simple concept about the inlet and the outlet of the pelvis.