I love to see moms pushing for change in the birthing world. There is a group in Ventura who are hoping to change the VBAC rules in some of the hospitals there. I have a good friend from Ventrura who had an emergency cesarean with her first baby, had no problems having VBACs with her […]
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I have been lucky to have 2 positive hospital births, as a doula I have seen some good hospital births where mom was supported and treated with respect and some where mom wasn’t. Part of the problem with a hospital birth, is you don’t necessarily know if your doctor will be on call and you
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Bellies and Babies Blog has a great post titled How can we expect to make mothers out of women when we treat them like children? I completely agree with her post. How we are treated during pregnancy and birth can effect our mothering. Reading it brought me back to after Devon was born. He was
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I was tagged by a fellow Hypnobabies Instructor Michael. here are the rules: 1. Link to the person who tagged you 2. Post the rules to your blog 3. Write 6 random things about yourself 4. Tag 6 people at the end of your post and link to them 5. Let each person you have
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I found out about this great post on Keyboard Revolutionary from Rixa’s Blog. What can ACOG learn from McDonalds? You will just have to click and find out! I think it is true, just let it go, create your own better hamburger and let people choose for themselves where they want to eat! 😉
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This tragedy breaks my heart. Three babies have now died from tainted formula and over 6000 have been made sick from it. This mother of a 2 month old said, “Doctors said I better not feed her powdered milk,” Xinhua quoted a “tearful” Wang as saying. “In the past few days, I fed her fresh milk
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This is a Canadian Clinic, but benefits women everywhere from the research they do and the videos they make and so much else. If you can help out, or want to learn more, visit their website!
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This looks like it will be a great birth video for Dads and Mom’s to watch. It is geared towards the dads. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVf4rzam0Xo]
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I have a dear friend who recently had her 5th baby. She escaped a cesarean with her first with a patient OB who allowed her to push for 4 hours with a posterior baby. Then she narrowly escaped a cesarean with her 4th baby. This story is incredible to me. The baby was breech, they
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I was excited to see Hypnobabies talked about on National TV. I wish they had time to share some more information. I actually have met that couple at one of my monthly Hypnobabies Open House I co-host with other Hypnobabies Doulas. They shared their beautiful birth story and slide show. I was disappointed to see
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I am getting a lot done. I will hopefully be a bit more attentive to my blog now. I miss them during the day. I still have Bryson around, but he misses the big boys too. Bryson actually started preschool today. My baby is growing so big! I don’t have any doula clients due currently.
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I just taught a Class 3 in my Hypnobabies class this week. This is the class where we go over Birth Choices. After class a Dad commented, “I thought it was just epidural or no epidural, boy was I wrong!” Here is a blog post by a nurse who taught hospital childbirth classes, which demonstrates
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I have had 2 VBAC’s at Saddleback Hospital and encourage mom’s who contact me wanting a hospital VBAC to look into Saddleback. They hold a VBAC class for parents interested in learning more. Here is what one of their Doctors has said. “For many years, the rule of thumb was ‘once a Cesarean, always
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If you go to IdeaBlob you can vote for this important movie. If they win, they will be able to finish this movie and get it out into the world! It is so important that women have this information so we can be more empowered about our bodies! http://www.atyourcervixmovie.com/about.html “Uncomfortable”; “Humiliating”; “Traumatic”; “Scarring”–words women too often
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Breech Homebirth surrounded by mothers (Dad was away on business!) I wasn’t surprised to have sailed past my due date with my 5th baby. Fielding the phone calls, answering the questions about “when are you due?” had become so ingrained in public conversation that even my 4 year old son was wise enough to
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