Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Childbirth Education, Doula, Hypnobabies, Natural Birth on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
V called me at 4:30AM to tell me she was having PW every 5 -10 minutes, since about 2:30. She had showered and was moving around to make sure they stayed consistent. Did I think she should head in to the hospital? We talked a little bit more, she was worried she would get sent [...]
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Cesarean, Hypnobabies, Natural Birth, VBAC, tagged guest post on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
I am a little slow in getting this up on my blog. But I was honored to be asked to write a guest post on Rixa’s blog about my births. Here it is! If you don’t read Rixa’s blog, you should, it is great!
http://rixarixa.blogspot.com/2008/04/guest-post-1.html
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Childbirth Education, Hypnobabies, Natural Birth, Pregnancy, tagged homebirth, midwife, orange-county-birth, water-birth on May 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Doula, Natural Birth on May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
V. had her baby on Tuesday. It was a great birth and I am so glad it worked out that I could be there, thanks to my doula friends who helped with my boys. :)
Short version. Water broke at 1:40 PMand sweet baby in moms arms at 3:24. There is a much longer version, as [...]
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Cesarean, Doula, Hospital-Birth, ICAN, tagged Awareness, c-section-births, c-section-delivery, c-section-irth, c-section-preparation, c-section-recovery, CAM, Cesarean, Cesarean-Awareness-Month, cesarean-birth-deliveries, cesarean-birth-stories, cesarean-scar, cesarean-section-deliveries, cesarean-section-delivery, ICAN, International-Cesarean-Awareness-Month, sisterhood-of-the-scar on April 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Trust Birth Conference was very interesting. It was fun talking with other doulas there. We had one group discussion and someone talked about how our work as Doula’s can be effected by our births.
It made me think of my 2 cesareans I have attended as a doula.
I always was nervous how supporting a mom [...]
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Cesarean, Doula, Hospital-Birth, ICAN, tagged Awareness, c-section-births, c-section-delivery, c-section-irth, c-section-preparation, c-section-recovery, CAM, Cesarean, Cesarean-Awareness-Month, cesarean-birth-deliveries, cesarean-birth-stories, cesarean-scar, cesarean-section-deliveries, cesarean-section-delivery, epidural, ICAN, induced, induction, International-Cesarean-Awareness-Month on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
The end of 2007 I attended two very long births back to back. Out of 63 hours I was gone 57. I was home for a few hours of sleep between them. I missed my 2 year olds birthday and honestly I don’t know where my boys were during that whole time. I wasn’t worried, [...]
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Childbirth Education, Doula, Home-Birth, Hospital-Birth, Hypnobabies, Hypnosis and Childbirth, ICAN, Midwives, Natural Birth, Pregnancy, VBAC, tagged HBAC, intuition-birth, VBAC on March 21, 2008 | 15 Comments »
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 37 weeks [...]
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Cesarean, Childbirth Education, Doula, Home-Birth, Hospital-Birth, ICAN, Midwives, Natural Birth, Pregnancy, VBAC, tagged birth video, epidural on March 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Childbirth Education, Doula, Hospital-Birth, Hypnobabies, Natural Birth, VBAC, tagged doula article, epidural, new york times doula on March 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Here is the article. Here is my response.
This is really a shame that this mom had a negative experiences with her doula. My role as a doula is to support the mom in whatever SHE wants. This isn’t MY birth, it is HERS! I would NEVER leave a mother during her birthing time, no matter [...]
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Childbirth Education, Hypnobabies, Hypnosis and Childbirth, Natural Birth, tagged epidural on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here I am on vacation, checking e-mails and blogging. I am the Hypnobabies Yahoo Group Moderator. It probably takes me about 1 hour a day on average to be in charge of that group. Well maybe 5 hours a week, there are not as many messages on the weekend. I do not get paid for [...]
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