Posted in Birth Stories, Home-Birth, Hypnobabies, ICAN, Midwives, Natural Birth, VBAC on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
is posted on the Empowering Birth Blog.
It was really enjoyable to read! Go visit and enjoy!
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Childbirth Education, Hypnobabies, Midwives, Natural Birth, Pregnancy on June 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 Doctors [...]
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, Doula, Home-Birth, Hypnobabies, ICAN, Midwives, Natural Birth, VBAC, tagged Trust Birth Conference, birth blogs, intuition on March 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
It was amazing and wonderful and fun! I probably have 10 blog entries worth of things to talk about. So this will just be an overview.
I got to room with Michelle and Celesta, midwives from San Diego. They were so great! I am so looking forward to Alison’s birth, Michelle is her midwife and I [...]
Posted in Birth, Childbirth Education, Doula, Midwives, Pregnancy, tagged Trust Birth Conference on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
One of my goals this year was to go to this conference. I will be there on Friday. There are really going to be the most amazing topics and people there. I am SO excited. When I was picking out my topics I kept telling DH all my choice. I said, “Honey, there is a [...]
Posted in Birth, Childbirth Education, Doula, Home-Birth, Hypnobabies, Hypnosis and Childbirth, ICAN, Midwives, Natural Birth, VBAC on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 trusts [...]
Posted in Birth, Childbirth Education, ICAN, Midwives, tagged advocacy for birth, goals on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
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 to help [...]
Posted in Birth Stories, Childbirth Education, Home-Birth, Hypnobabies, Hypnosis and Childbirth, Midwives, Natural Birth on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Birth, Birth Stories, Home-Birth, Hospital-Birth, Midwives, Natural Birth, Pregnancy, tagged routines during birth on January 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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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