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Odd Labor Tools: Tennis Ball
We all know about birth tools like affirmations and hip squeezes, birth balls and birth pools, but did you know that regular household items can be used as tools for pain relief? Over the next few weeks, I’d like to share with you some fun and not-so-commonly thought of birth tools in my birth bag.
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Winning as a Doula
The family sat piled high on the sofa and chairs on Sunday morning at 6:00AM EST. There was a match that couldn’t be missed! England vs Spain. Fueled with mimosas for the adults and straight OJ for the kids, all eyes were glued to the television set. For a couple hours all the soccer world
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Birth Bag Essentials
Whether you’re planning a home birth or birthing elsewhere, having your birth bag packed ahead of time is important! Having everything together means you’re not hunting for it during labor, and if you decide to leave your home, you’re already packed, so it’s one less worry. Birth bag essentials include things like: You’ll want several
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Eating During Labor
After having labored several hours with term PROM (prelabor rupture of membranes), Cathy (not her real name) was tired. She wanted to hear that she was close to done. She wanted to be able to push. But more than that, she wanted to eat. She hadn’t had anything in 16 hours! Not since an hour
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News About Respiratory Syncytial Virus
For anyone who has ever had a premature baby, you know the scary threat that looms over our newly home babies, especially in fall and winter months: RSV (respiratory syncytial virus). What seems to be nothing more than a common cold to you or me, but is potentially life threatening to newborns, most especially those
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Prenatal Exercise is Essential
Labor: (1) work, especially hard, physical work. (2) physical or mental effort. (3) the process of childbirth. When we think of labor, we know there are contractions, that most people speak of the pain they feel, but what isn’t really expressed is how childbirth, or labor, is a lot of hard and very intense work!
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Why Hire a Doula?: An Interview
While I, as a mother of 7, understand the need of having a doula present, it isn’t always easy to convince a spouse or partner of the need. Last night I sat down with Mr. DoulaWise and asked him, “What would you tell a new parent is the reason dropping $1000+/- is completely worth it?
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Pregnancy To-Do List
When you’re staring at those two pink lines and your mind starts racing, it may feel like 9 months is a lifetime to wait to meet your new baby. While at the same time it feels like there’s a whole lot of things you need to do, and you need to do it yesterday! In
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How to Know: Intuition in Birth
What’s the difference between listening to fear, your intuition and your ego? How do you know which inner voice to listen to? Is there a way to tell them apart? “Trusting your body isn’t contingent on you avoiding medical care when you need/want it. Trusting your body is also listening to your intuition and signs
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The Story of Labor
It’s been a loooooooooong pregnancy. Your brain is exhausted. Your body doesn’t feel like it’s yours anymore. You just want to be done with the stretching and the weight gain and the hormones and the uncomfortable nights and the sleeplessness and the swelling and the restlessness and the peeing every 15 minutes and not seeing
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