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Tag: labor
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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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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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