It is amazing to me that women are not free to choose how they birth. Many women are told they MUST have a cesarean, because their care providers or hospitals refuse to allow them to have a vaginal birth. Seems absurd that women are not allowed the choice. Here is an article about how women in […]
http://www.bigbaby.org.uk/ It looks like it has some great info for parents worried about having big babies. I LOVED this quote from the site I heard a great analogy from an obstetrician once, that likened trying to predict the size of a baby before birth, by ultrasound, to trying to guess the weight of a man, sitting
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Laila Ali talks about her birth. She was planning a homebirth, but because of baby’s lack of growth, she was induced at a hospital. She encourages moms to do their research and know they don’t have to have a baby in the hospital or get an epidural! She talked about how tough the birth was.
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I love to see moms pushing for change in the birthing world. There is a group in Ventura who are hoping to change the VBAC rules in some of the hospitals there. I have a good friend from Ventrura who had an emergency cesarean with her first baby, had no problems having VBACs with her
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I have been lucky to have 2 positive hospital births, as a doula I have seen some good hospital births where mom was supported and treated with respect and some where mom wasn’t. Part of the problem with a hospital birth, is you don’t necessarily know if your doctor will be on call and you
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I have a dear friend who recently had her 5th baby. She escaped a cesarean with her first with a patient OB who allowed her to push for 4 hours with a posterior baby. Then she narrowly escaped a cesarean with her 4th baby. This story is incredible to me. The baby was breech, they
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I just taught a Class 3 in my Hypnobabies class this week. This is the class where we go over Birth Choices. After class a Dad commented, “I thought it was just epidural or no epidural, boy was I wrong!” Here is a blog post by a nurse who taught hospital childbirth classes, which demonstrates
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I have had 2 VBAC’s at Saddleback Hospital and encourage mom’s who contact me wanting a hospital VBAC to look into Saddleback. They hold a VBAC class for parents interested in learning more. Here is what one of their Doctors has said. “For many years, the rule of thumb was ‘once a Cesarean, always
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Devon, my first was born by emergency cesarean at 34 weeks. As a doula I have worried about how my client’s cesareans would effect me. I wrote about it in my post Emotional Aspects of Being a Doula. It is amazing to see how the Lord has eased me into my client’s cesareans. The first
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I learned about this way to help moms process their cesareans from the Birth after Cesaren Blog Listing 10 positive things, not including Devon, that came about from my cesarean. I think it is sometimes hard to see beyond the baby you get. It has been 10 years and a long journey to get where
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I read on Crunchy Domestic Goddess about Jessica Alba’s wonderful birth. She used hypnosis for childbirth, which is such a wonderful tool for moms! I wish more moms would look into it. If every pregnant mom took time each day to relax and fill their minds with positive thoughts of birth, it could only help the
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Noah’s Birth I haven’t posted much before but have enjoyed reading the posts. The following story is that of the birth of my 3rd child but 1st Hypnobaby. My first was born vaginally after induction at 42 weeks. I was not aware at the time of the risk of multiple medical interventions and ended
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My Hypnobabies VBAC success story I had been having contractions almost every night while working at the computer, but any time I laid down they would stop. On Friday, Nov 16, it was the same thing, contractions every 5 minutes but if I laid on the couch they would stop. So finally at 11pm I
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This is a question my husband had when I wanted to hire a doula for Bryson’s birth. I reassured him they didn’t. When we met with Alison and talked with her about her role, he felt much better about it. Then after the birth he wondered why we didn’t have one for each birth? He
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On a new blog, created by a Hypnobabies mom, Cynthia, who had 2 Hypnobabies births. I love that Hypnobabies helps empower moms and helps them create wonderful births. Then they share the joy with others! Go check out her blog and her birth stories! Both her babies were over 10 pounds. So for those whose
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