To me comfort stems from relationships I build with people and the joy comes from experiences I share with them. Here are some ways I see comfort and joy manifested in my life! Being a doula is a job where I help provide comfort and the births bring me so much joy! There is nothing […]
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PREGNANCY What does your uterus and fruit have in common? BIRTH Excerpts from Penny Simkins’ talk from the Lamaze Conference: Making the Most of your Birth GBS – Testing, Antibiotics, what are the real options? BREASTFEEDING Nestle pairing with AAP a good or bad idea? Baby Growth Charts – which one is best? Breastfed babies
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It was a major milestone for me when Thing 1 turned ten. I found myself very reflective about his birth and how it effected me and him. Thing 2 turned ten yesterday and it was just a fun celebration. I was thinking about that and wondered why his birth wasn’t really in my thoughts at
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I found out yesterday that the Pregnancy Companion App is free for this weekend. I was excited to download it and check it out! Here are my thoughts on it. It is laid out nicely and has some good tools on it. Here are the tools and my thoughts on each. Tools in the App
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I just got an e-mail from Mama Seoul about a VBAC she attended as a doula/friend. My friend just had a Home Water Birth After Inverted T Cesarean at my house on Saturday. She listened to Hypnobabies Easy First Stage for like 35 hours and the Pushing Track for about half of her long pushing
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There is a very interesting article questioning this on MSNBC, where a mom shares her first traumatic birth experience and the different choices she is making this pregnancy. Who controls childbirth – mom-to-be or doctors? My observation as a birth doula, is it depends on who the mom chooses as her care provider. What her
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Keep your baby with you after you birth! Of course if the baby is having problems adjusting to life outside the womb, then it may be best for baby to be worked on in the baby warmer. (Though the benefits of keeping the cord pulsing can help the baby adjust) But I am talking about
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First off – Thank Goodness for Back Up Doulas! I love my GAL Doula group. It is so great to be able to have each other. Friday Night/Saturday Morning The details of what I missed. Their baby turned posterior late Friday night. Lisa had back labor until she started pushing. Alison spent most of the
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I would love to answer any questions you may have? What is the #1 question you have about pregnancy? about birth? about hypnosis for birth? about editing birth videos? about life as a doula? about being a mom of 3 boys? Really just ask me a question about anything! BTW, tomorrow I am starting a
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There is an amazing article from Mothering Magazine on how to trust yourself and your intuition as a mother! Most of the quotes in this post are from that article. When we become mothers, we have to generate a new kind of courage. We are accustomed in our society to giving up our authority to
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