Award

By accepting this Excellent Blog Award, I have to award it to 10 more people who’s blog’s I find Excellent Award worthy. I can give it to as many people as I want but please award at least 10. Thank you out there for having such great blogs and being such great friends! You deserve [...]

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Are Routines During Birth Good or Bad?

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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Is Education Enough?

This post is somewhat prompted by reading a blog entry about how it bugs this mom when people say educate yourself about birth, because she educated herself but still didn’t have a good birth experience.  The birth environment today is not always accepting of normal births, so it can be a challenge to have one.  [...]

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Do you feel disconnected to your birth using hypnosis?

This is a common concern of moms interested in using hypnosis for childbirth.  They wonder if they will just be zoned out on a bed and not aware of what is going on. 
The easy answer is NO, but read on for more details.  One of the great things about the Hypnobabies program is that [...]

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An inspiring Birth Video of a Hypnobabies Birth!

This mom used the Hypnobabies Home Study and ideas from Ina May’s book to have this beautiful birth!
You can read here story here!

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Fear and Birth

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7
Fear should not be our motivator as we bring our children into this world.  There are things around us that can cause us fear during pregnancy and birth.  Whether our own anxiety, [...]

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Support for VBACs from Australia…

This is an interesting article from the Australian birth community.  It discusses how the cesarean rate is too high and the problems that is causing for women and for the medical world there.  I hope America figures this out sooner than later!
If you are a mom trying to GIP (gestate in peace) you don’t need [...]

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Great opportunity for Orange County, CA moms

SAVE THE DATE!!
On January 26, 2008 South Coast Medical Center is hosting an Open House focusing on ‘the best kept secret in Orange County’.  The birth unit desires for professionals and residents of this area of Southern California to recognize how important individualized and personalized the care is for women having their baby.  One of [...]

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A great letter to Christina Aguilera

I don’t know why she has signed up for an elective cesarean.  She may have a valid medical reason…. such as placenta previa.  Maybe her baby is breech, though that does not have to equal a cesarean. 
Since most cesareans performed in America today are not medically necessary I am guessing that it is possible her [...]

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Library Display is UP!

I will admit it isn’t very pretty, but hopefully it will attract attention and people will take the free bookmarks with list of books and websites!
I had the information on doula poster from a Babies R Us fair we did last year.  I put out some books on the bottom shelf. 
Taped to the wall on [...]

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