Time Magazine has put a lot of their photos online, available through Google. There’s a series of photos taken in July 1958 by Stan Wayman. The photos are labelled “mother giving birth under hypnosis”! It’s pretty cool. http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=birth+source:life&imgurl=c747b05db256d2ab# That’s the link to the first photo. Click the smaller photos on the right side for 5 […]
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(this is not meant as medical advice, this is to remind moms everywhere that you have rights…. choose to use them! Trust your body! Choose care givers who trust your body! Make educated decisions. Care providers give you information… you have to decipher it and choose how to use it, ask questions, get answers you
Have you heard that Miami’s cesarean rate is over 40%? That is SO crazy. There was an article in a paper of a mom who decided natural birth would be a way to help her avoid a cesarean. She used HypnoBirthing to help her prepare for her birth. Here is a link to her story.
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I love numbers. So I keep statistics of my student’s births and my doula clients births. (All of my doula clients have been my students) I love being a doula and going to births, sharing this amazing moment with these families! Here is a run down of 3 years of doulaing. I have had 19
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I love numbers. So I keep statistics of my students births and my doula clients births. Of course they are so much more than numbers to me (especially my doula clients, when I am at their births and see how amazing they do). Here is a run down of 3 years of teaching Hypnobabies. So
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I attended an induction on Monday. I need to check with the mom if it is ok for me to share her story. She was AMAZING! Induction with pitocin A posterior baby First time mom She did it with no medication and was really amazing!
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Here is a compilation of different pushing posts. Purple Pushing Here was my experience of pushing Bryson out. What does Breathing your Baby out mean? Gloria Lemay’s Article on Pushing for Primips (first time moms) Upright Pushing blog post by Rixa. Desiree has a great post about pushing and some good questions to ask your
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Pushing… By “breathing baby down”, we mean that moms are breathing, “aaaahhhhhh” to open their throats, because we know that if their throats are open and relaxed so are their bottoms. Through a process called peristalsis, our ‘gut’ which is one continuous tube, ‘communicates’ from one end (the mouth) all the way down through
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A mom who wants a VBAC and is frustrated by the lack of support she is getting, decided to write a Consent form for OB’s which if they read, they would see how wrong they are! Please go check it out, it is really brilliant.
I need to write a whole blog post about my pushing. When I was birthing Bryson and my husband was filming it, I never though it would end up on You Tube! My DH didn’t want the whole thing out there, so I cut that out of the You Tube version. I do show the
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This birth story exemplifies how a good birth can change and become stressful during the pushing stage, if care providers insist on purple pushing. Mother directed pushing is much gentler and frankly most un-medicated moms do not need any direction in how to push. Their bodies know what to do! We need to get out of their
My favorite class to teach in my Hypnobabies Childbirth Education series, is class 3. In this class we discuss all the options of different interventions that may be offered before, during or after your birth. Ranging from internal exams in the last few weeks of your pregnancy to epidurals. What are the pros and cons
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA7Y_DnC_kA] I entered into the Birth Matters Video Contest. If you can watch and then go and rate it. Leave a comment too! I love to share the joy of hypnosis for birth. 🙂
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Trusting the birth process is often hard for women to do. They have been indoctrinated with negative stories about birth since they were born; from their own birth story their mothers shared with them, to the stranger in the grocery store when they are pregnant and the TV shows they watch. How are they supposed
In celebration of International Birth Wisdom Week, I decided to share my experiences with supporting women all over the world! I have the best job in the world! I get to help women from all over the world prepare for a comfortable, empowering and enjoyable births using Hypnobabies. How is it possible to help women
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