This is from the wonderful Independent Childbirth birth community I belong to! Which is a wonderfully supportive group of Childbirth Educators who teach independently (visit website to find out more!) We are holding a cyber event *** International Birth Wisdom Week*** next week. We would love all birth or Mommy bloggers to join! All you […]
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I had a student who was referred to me by a local OB. She expressed interest in homebirth from our first meeting. I gave her referrals, but she never called them. We had another student in class who had a homebirth with her last baby and was planning another homebirth this time. The last class
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This is the THIRD time I have had 2 back to back births. I have been praying for the last few weeks. Just give me a good night sleep between each birth. While I believe in the power of prayer (very much) you would think by now I would know that for some reason praying
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This is so cool! Wouldn’t it be awesome if we had commercials like this in the US? What different births we would have as a society, if this was deemed acceptable for our TV. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZy_wcZBkgw]
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S. called me on Friday morning to say that she had an OB appointment that morning. Dr. T. checked her and said she was 4 cm, so she needed to go to the hospital to have the baby. We talked a bit about why. I asked if she was having pressure waves. She said she
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Are you interested in how to be a Hypno-Doula? A doula who supports moms using hypnosis for childbirth? There is a Hypno-Doula Workbook by Hypnobabies which is GREAT! They are having a give away of one along with the book Labor of Love on the Hypnobabies Blog. Hurry over, the give away ends on the
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I found a new L&D nurses blog which I am really loving. She has a great post of the Top 8 ways to have an unnecessary cesarean. She added one to a different list of Top 7 ways to have an unnecessary cesarean. I loved these lists, but looking at my students who have
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I read an interesting post at At Your Cervix Blog. It is so interesting to read the inside scoop on what is happening on L&D floors from the nurse’s perspective. I had a woman that had the slowest, most drawn our labor and poor contraction pattern. Of course, she had a cut happy MD who
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I found an interesting e-book about Social Leadership at The Social Leader. I went to a Thomas Jefferson Education conference last weekend, because I have been homeschooling Carson for a few months and may pull Devon out next year. Anyway, they were talking about Social Leadership and how we need more leaders in our country.
know your hospital, make your birth plan concise and relevant, don’t go in with guns blazing trying to pick a fight, and be respectful without being condescending. She also mentioned communicating well with your nurse. I’ll add that your nurse is the one person who can make or break this for you. It’s ok to
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(I haven’t forgotten about the give away. I should have the winner announced in a day or so!) I hadn’t had a birth since June of ’08. For a lot of different reasons. Lots of family trips, DH was SO busy working and the June birth was an emergency cesarean at 34 weeks and frankly hit
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Repost from last year! Happy 1st Birthday to Superman and PJ! 🙂 Thanks for a fun crazy few hours. I have had 2 moms who were going to have their babies at any time for the past few weeks. They also happen to be good friends, so I really wanted to make sure I made
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There is nothing more exciting than to recieve a book in the mail, except recieving a BIRTH book in the mail. I got it on Friday and had finished the book by Sunday. The Labor of Love was written by Cara Muhlhahn, was the midwife who is shown in the movie, The Business of Being Born. It
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I read an interesting post on a nurse’s blog about The “perfect” patient. Go read her post and then come back and read this. She had some good points. 1. Open mind. I agree with this. Some moms who are so focused on one thing, sometimes create that reality. So focus on what you DO
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I never really thought about homebirth until after I was a doula. The more I learned about birth and then saw birth as an observer at a hospital, the more homebirth made sense. I have had 3 hospital births and if we ever decide to have another baby, he will probably be born at home. But
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