January 2010

The Power of Waiting

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aEk–fIZAo] This OB talks about a study looking at waiting 2 hours can help prevent cesareans!  If Mom and Baby are ok, wait 2 more hours and see what happens. Ask your care provider NOW if they are open to doing this for moms that are “slow to progress”

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Breech Baby = Cesarean?

I am busy figuring out my Hypno-Doula Statistics.  This year I had 10 doula clients.  3 of them had breech babies! They all had cesareans.  2 attempted ECV, 1 the breech baby was discovered when she was 6cm. None of the moms were presented with an option of vaginal birth.  That is getting rarer and

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I love Goals.

I have always enjoyed setting goals. In college I had a friend who said, “It is the weirdest thing.  You write something down, hang it on the wall and then it happens!” That is the beauty of goals. My birth goals for 2009 were: Do a give away on Hypnobabies Blog (I did a few)

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