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Tag: labor tools
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Odd Labor Tools: The Toilet
Welcome back to the series! This is our fifth and final series of odd labor tools you have around the house that can help with labor! Thanks to a wonderful doula friend at A Caring Doula, TaKiesha Smith, who helped me when I was stumped on what to write about, giving me the idea for
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Odd Labor Tools: Flaxseed Sachet
For these past few weeks, we’ve been discussing unusual labor tools. Household items that you may not immediately associate with coping tools during pregnancy, labor and birth. Installment four is all about the sachet filled with flaxseed! (The reason we’re discussing flaxseed and not rice, or dried corn is that flaxseed retains temperature longer and
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Odd Labor Tools: Twin Sheet
For a few weeks now we’ve been covering the topic of household items made into labor tools. This week’s edition is all about the twin size bedsheet. What does a sheet have to do with pain management? It’s not to mop up the watery mess from your amniotic sac breaking. Let’s get into it! Scenario
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Odd Labor Tools: Combs and Brushes
Starting last week, and continuing for the next few weeks, we’re discussing odd labor tools. Household items that you may not immediately associate with coping tools during labor. This week is combs and brushes! So how do you use a comb or brush? Scenario 1: you’re having an induction and things are slow at progressing.
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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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