I just shared a potentially scary story about how my first baby’s life was in jeopardy in utero, but doing kick counts saved his life. I don’t want you to be scared or full of fear about my experience. I love what Gavin De Becker says about fear: “Worry is the fear we […]
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So how can you harness your intuition? There have been books written about the subject, but let me share an experience from early in my mothering career that showed me how intuition can be lifesaving. I was on bedrest starting at 25 weeks with my first baby. I lay there every day and
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Learning to follow your intuition is imperative in building your trust in your body’s ability to birth. Education is important—it will help you know the options you have and the pros and cons of each one. But when it comes down to making the choices before, during and after your birth, your intuition is the
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I’ve been sharing how important it is to let only positive messages about birth into your mind. It is easy to turn off a TV show. It can be more challenging to stop friends and strangers from telling scary stories. But, you can ask them to stop if they start. Explain that your baby can
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Actively seek out positive birth stories. Here are some of my favorites. Also I share many on my podcast! This can fill your mind with peaceful images of enjoyable births. Even if the moms telling their stories chose a different kind of birth than you, just knowing their encouraging stories can give you support and
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Step #1 to trusting your body and baby is – take in positive messages about birth The images we compile in our heads have a profound impact on how we prepare for and look forward to (or dread) our birth experiences. The more positive the images are, the less stressed we’ll be during pregnancy and
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My name is Sheridan. I have been a Childbirth Educator and Birth Doula since 2006. I teach Hypnobabies Childbirth Classes every week and attend one to two births a month as a doula. I support hundreds of expecting moms all over the world by moderating the Hypnobabies Yahoo Group. I am also creating an online
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I love to help parents learn more so that they can enjoy their births. I do this by teaching Hypnobabies classes to expecting couples and I am a birth doula for my students who want support during their births. I also do this by blogging here at Enjoy Birth! I am excited to join in
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I first started Meditating after reading 10 Zen Seconds. It made meditation seem doable, it was 10 seconds!!! After doing this for a few years and then got an app and was doing 5 minute meditations. When I started yoga I found my 10 second meditations were so helpful in staying focused and enjoy my
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I was sent a copy of Stress Solutions for Pregnant Moms to review. I was excited to see what this book contained and how helpful it would really be. It is chock full of information and tools for moms to reduce stress. It is geared towards pregnant moms, but would certainly benefit any moms! She
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The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman I have enjoyed reading Patricia’s earlier books, which were memoirs of her life as a midwife and was excited to recieve a copy of her new book, a fictional novel about a midwife – Patience – in the Appalachian’s during the 1930’s. What an honor to be
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Zia May’s HypnoBabies Birth Feb. 4th, 2010 About a month and a half before giving birth to my then genderless child, I wrote a note that I called my Manifest List which I slept with in my pillow case. This list covered all of the characteristics that I hoped for my child to have, and
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I am just now getting around to writing Emmaline’s birth story, even though she was born on March 18th. Emmaline’s home water birth was a truly wonderful experience and Hypnobabies helped me tremendously through a 36 hour birthing time! Emmaline weighed 10lbs. and was 22 inches long. Because I want to be totally honest about my
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I was so excited to hear that Ricki Lake was having a new talk show. Being a doula I get all the birthy information and needs for pregnant moms. I got an e-mail they were looking for pregnant moms planning a waterbirth and I hooked my friend Angela up with them. She has been
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Thanks to Nathalie from the Hypnobabies Yahoo Group for sharing her story with us. This is my birth story for my first child, born November 19, 2011. Hypnobabies definitely helped me stay calm and positive throughout the entire experience, and made labor very easy to manage! Read on for more. As first-time parents, DH and
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