To begin, I didn’t have the money for hypnobabies and wound up using the book about hypnobirthing with the CD. My husband was gone a lot, and really did not participate in this preparation. I think a formal course or home-study course would have been preferable, but you do the best that you can. My […]
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I am so excited to be the first stop on the Virtual Book Tour for the Gift of Giving Life book. I am honored to be one of the authors of the book, so of course I am excited about it being out. We are so thrilled that it has already been getting rave reviews.
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T1 is an awesome Boy Scout and I use him and his scout friends to help out at the charter school my other boys are at. I had them help at a Harvest Faire in the fall and I really appreciated their help. At one point T1 came up to me with his friends and
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This was my third baby, and my second Hypnobabies birth. This pregnancy and preparation for my birthing time were very different than my other two. I was induced two weeks early with my first baby, and never had any Braxton Hicks or anything leading up to the birth. With my second, I had prepared for
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After years of work and collaboration, it is here! This is a great gift to buy for yourself or for a woman you love. 🙂 Click here to buy now! Horray, our book has been born. It is beautiful. You can buy it now and it will be in your hands in a
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T1 (Thing 1 – age 14 broke his arm and jaw mountain biking in March) has survived and even thrived with his broken jaw. Instead of losing weight he actually gained a pound. 🙂 Here are some tips to help if you or someone you love breaks a jaw. Mental State If you haven’t had
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I was watching a birth video and it gave a warning that it was going to show a cesarean. “Turn off now if you don’t want to see a graphic cesarean” Well, I was curious so I watched. It wasn’t pretty, it was graphic and it made me hurt to watch it. I felt it
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How to Rock Your Baby: And Other Timeless Tips for Modern Moms My rating: 4 of 5 stars I got a copy of this book to read and review and do a give away on my blog. This is a book where the author, Erin gathered time honored tips to birth and raise a baby.
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After so many sessions I was doing good. I thought, I am over all this birth stuff NOW! Then I experienced birth trauma as a doula The birth was mostly good for the mom. But there was a part that was really hard for ME. Mom was fine about it, but I was NOT. I
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After I had T1 and T2, both Rob and I FELT that there was another baby WAITING to come to our family. We knew it even when T2 was very small. There was never a doubt we would have another one. T3 waited pretty patiently. I felt him hovering about and knew he was there,
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T1 does have some long term issues from his birth trauma. In the scheme of things it is so insignificant. But in my mind it was huge! I couldn’t seem to let go of the guilt and uncertainty of his future. It was really hard when he was around 2. His issues were apparent and
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A few weeks into massage “therapy” I started doing Yoga. Which is something I had wanted to try for YEARS. Now I was choosing to and I loved it. My favorite class is the Gentle Restorative Yoga. It really lets go of emotions, I usually cry a little and it is just freeing. I couldn’t
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I had written a series on my massage therapy/therapy and how it helped me uncover all these issues that came up from the birth trauma from T1’s birth. I wrote this series last fall, but put off posting it. I finally decided March was the month and I had all the posts scheduled out for
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This is part of my blog series about what I discovered about how my birth trauma with T1 left many trapped emotions in my body, which had a big effect on how I was mothering. I was able to release them with awesome massage “therapy”, another great tool is the The Emotion Code In my second session
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At my very first appointment, with Pam, the first issue that came up was Fear of Loss 2 incidents in my young childhood had given me this strong fear of losing a child. A close family friend had 2 of her children die. One was hit by a car while riding on her bike. The
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