I have a podcast episode about this now. I love the book The Five Love Languages. I think it may have saved my marriage when Thing 2 was 1 years old. So I really do love this book. It basically says there are 5 different love languages and what may make me feel loved, wouldn’t […]
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There was a Dinner Friday night honoring some amazing birth workers! I went and the food was amazing and the honorees and speakers were great. Dr. Fischbein – OB who supports moms CHOICES! Dr. Fleiss – great pediatrician who supports moms CHOICES! Marilyn Milos – intact boys advocate – she made me see very clearly
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Here are my 3 different experiences using EFT at births. 1. I went to my first birth as a doula at St. Joseph’s hospital. This is the hospital where I had my first baby, an emergency cesarean at 34 weeks and he spent 12 days in the NICU. I hadn’t been back to the hospital
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I met so many amazing women! It was fun to connect with women I knew from online groups. That is always great, to put a face with a name. It was great going to lunch with you gals from Independent Childbirth! It was fun to meet women I knew from before! It was fun to
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With preparing for the Trust Birth Conference and trying to finish my book (more info on that in a week or so), I wasn’t able to keep up with my blog and all the excitement about the NIH conference. So a brief recap: There was an awesome article in the New York Times about a
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There were so many amazing speakers, it was hard to choose what sessions to attend! I ended up doing a lot of personal/professional growth things. I can’t even remember everything, it is all blended together as an amazing overall experience. I loved the body information I learned. -Jeanne Ohm – How pelvises work and it
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Ok, it was AMAZING. Really Trust Birth 2008 was life changing, I remember driving home and pondering all I had learned and thinking, how will I apply this in my life? I was then wondering, should I be a midwife? After a few months of praying, pondering I realized, that isn’t the path I needed
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I have been interested in different energy healing techniques since I first experienced one about 3 years ago. It helped me let go of my guilt surrounding Devon’s birth. I researched different things and have tried EFT on my own and my chiro does some energy releasing things as well. I feel that has really
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I am SO excited. I leave tomorrow for the Trust Birth Conference. I went in 2008 and loved every minute. I was with my peeps! 🙂 I have a WordPress Ap on my iPhone, so I will maybe do a quick post after each session. Any of my readers going to the conference? I would
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Science and Sensibility’s Blog has done it again. They have explained why the ACOGs approval of using Cytotec to induce labors is NOT evidence based. In Hypnobabies class we teach moms the risks associated with cytotec/misoprostol/miso and I encourage my moms to ask NOW if their care providers use it, after I had a mom
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Hello Everyone! Connecticut Worst to First is working on a project that will be hopefully taking the national spotlight once it is finished. I am looking for women who are willing to speak about their negative birth experiences in hospital settings. Women who had unnecessary c-sections, rude comments, had to fight for their right to
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Here is a study you may want to help with! I am a graduate student (and also a birthing professional) assisting for a large research project at UC Irvine, involving pregnancy and postpartum women in the Health Psychology department. Our study is actively recruiting new participants, and we need women who are 15 weeks (or
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Imagine 5 different women want to travel to America. There are two ways to travel there: an airplane or a boat. Allison’s travel agent tells her about both options and the pros and cons of each. Allison chooses an airplane because it is a good choice for her. Britany wants to take the boat, but
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One thing that I suggest to my doula clients facing induction is to ask their care providers if they can turn up the pitocin SLOWLY. Even turn it down once pressure waves have started. I know that this is possible. Here is a great post from Birth Sense about a hospital based midwife who does
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I am posting this on my Birth Blog, because I chose to organize my office, where I physically blog from! I decided to do I’m an Organizing Junkie’s 28 Day Organizational Challenge. 1. What was the hardest part of the challenge for you and were you able to overcome it? I was wondering how I
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