I was honored to have Hope and her husband in my Hypnobabies Class. They used my doula partner Cindy as their doula and had a great birth! – Sheridan Here is Hope’s story of Lincoln’s birth I would like to preface my birth story by just saying I had been dilating for 3 weeks with […]
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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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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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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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On a new blog, created by a Hypnobabies mom, Cynthia, who had 2 Hypnobabies births. I love that Hypnobabies helps empower moms and helps them create wonderful births. Then they share the joy with others! Go check out her blog and her birth stories! Both her babies were over 10 pounds. So for those whose
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Great awesome Big Baby Vaginal Birth Story The baby was 11 pounds 5 ounces, the mom was attended by a midwife in a hospital setting and everyone was nervous because of the baby’s size, the midwife talks about her fear of shoulder distocia, but the birth goes wonderfully, everyone stayed calm and encouraging, which I
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You may remember this mom. G was one of my students, whose OB told her scary things which were all about the routines he did to EVERYONE (episiotomy, pitocin, etc), she changed to a homebirth midwife soon before her birth. I got a phone message from her on a trip saying what a great birth
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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 it to both births! Birth 1 – hospital birth S. was having her 4th baby. She had never gone past
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Alison’s homebirth midwife and assistant came over today. The whole birth team gathered together, so Dan, Grandma (who will be watching Abby) and I (as doula) was there too. It was lovely. I am so looking forward to this birth. It will be the first homebirth I attend! The midwife, Michelle was great. She really
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What can we do to help change the system? Is it enough to just complain about how the system and how our friends, relatives, acquaintances are being led to cesareans? Is it enough to help one woman at a time? It is important and valuable. But what if we each did one thing this year
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As noted in my previous post, I am on vacation, so I haven’t been tied to my cell phone. I discovered a lovely phone message on there from this morning from one of my students. The message was from G., from this post, with the OB who tried to scare her that the routine interventions
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When I drive home there are 2 different ways to enter my neighborhood. I always go the same way regardless of the direction I am driving home. It is just my normal routine, which is normally fine. But when I am driving my husbands car, I should enter the other way, because he parks on
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This mom used the Hypnobabies Home Study and ideas from Ina May’s book to have this beautiful birth! I meant to write my birth story a long time ago and with 3 kids well… you know. Anyway, that was me singing on YouTube right before my son was born. His birth went very well. I
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