July 2009

Am I a Birth Junkie?

Well, yes I am.  According to a lovely post by my “friend” Kathy.  You might be a birth junkie, if… Go read the whole list.  SO funny. Here are the ones that I could say, YES I do this.  if you blog about birth (more than just your own birth for historical purposes) or if […]

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Hilarious Screen Saver

This could also be called the potential interesting situations that arise when you are a Childbirth Educator. I recently changed my screen saver to shuffle through pictures in My Pictures Folder. I didn’t think much of it. Until today. Yesterday I got all jazzed up and made a Power Point Presentation for Class 3, Choices

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T's Feelings about her meeting

Not surprisingly T. wasn’t very satisfied with this conversation.  She didn’t feel heard or respected.  Rather she felt that she had been lectured to.  She wanted to have a genuine conversation with him about some important topics regarding her birth.  He felt like she was questioning his authority and just wanted her to trust him.

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Death by Cheeseburger?

So when I met with T. the other day, she told me about her meeting with the OB. The most outrageous comment he made was   “Just make sure you don’t eat a cheeseburger on the way to the hospital.  The number one cause of death during birth is aspiration!” Ok, that one just left me

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Pit to Distress – Wow

There has been a big rumbling going through the internet about this topic.  About doctors who encourage using pitocin until the baby is in distress.  Some feel it is a way for OBs to create a need for a cesarean.      Some feel it is a way to just get the babies out quicker so the OB

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Placenta for dinner?

So I grossed out my book club by bringing up the fact that some moms choose to eat their placenta after birth.  I personally don’t think I could do that.  But, next time*** I think I will have the placenta dried and made into pills.  I could swallow that! Afterbirth for Dinner? I am totally

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Hypno-Mom from 1950's

Time Magazine has put a lot of their photos online, available through Google. There’s a series of photos taken in July 1958 by Stan Wayman. The photos are labelled “mother giving birth under hypnosis”! It’s pretty cool. http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=birth+source:life&imgurl=c747b05db256d2ab# That’s the link to the first photo. Click the smaller photos on the right side for 5

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