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, Pregnancy, tagged house, hypnosis, Hypnosis and Childbirth, oprah on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Oprah had Dr. Brian Weiss on her show yesterday. He’s a psychologist who uses hypnosis in his practice. He’s also the author of “Many Lives, Many Masters” which tells the story of the first of his patient’s to spontaneously experience a past life regression while in hypnosis. Dr. Weiss didn’t believe in past lives prior [...]
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, Doula, Hypnobabies, tagged doula-logistics, kids-and-doulas on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I had 2 moms who were in that 5 week window of baby could come at any time. Life was good, it was chilly outside and the baby (ok, he is 2 years old, but he is MY baby) needed a nap. So DH took Carson to soccer and I stayed home to enjoy a [...]
Posted in Birth, Doula, Natural Birth, Pregnancy, tagged Hypnosis and Childbirth, painless-childbirth on April 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Painless Childbirth: An Empowering Journey Through Pregnancy and Childbirth by Guiditta Tornetta is available today on Amazon! It was written by a wonderful doula in the LA area and she understands the power of hypnosis for childbirth and this book is all about that!
Very inspiring and informational.
Right now the #1 Pregnancy and Childbirth Book on [...]
Posted in Birth, Childbirth Education, Hypnobabies, Natural Birth, Pregnancy, tagged Childbirth Education, Hypnobabies-Class, orange county on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
I have a few spots left in my Hypnobabies Class starting April 28th. This is a wonderful childbirth education series that covers all the important pregnancy and birthing information AND includes hypnosis tools to help you have a more comfortable and enjoyable birth.
If you are an expecting mom in Orange County, CA and are interested [...]
Posted in Birth, tagged encapsulate-placenta, placenta on April 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I got this book Placenta: The Gift of Life by Cornelia Enning off the Midwifery Today website when ordering the Midwifery Today magazine. (Highly recommended by my friends at Independent Childbirth, the magazine that is)
Well, I am pretty enthralled with placentas. I think they are so amazing and thought the book sounded interesting. It was [...]
Posted in Birth, tagged Awareness, birth-and-faith, birth-survey, 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 on April 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I created a survey to look at if and how someone’s faith could effect their birth. Please take a few minutes to fill it out! It should only take about 5 minutes.
Click Here to take survey
If you took a Hypnosis for Childbirth course and want to do a survey regarding your experiences with that, I [...]
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