Pregnancy is a natural time of creativity. The body is busy creating life – the most magical and mysterious creation of all. But it is easy to get caught up in all the choice making and researching of birthing options, education classes, and nursery supplies shopping, and before you know it your pregnancy is almost [...]
A Birth Vision is a written means of clarifying your hopes and expectations for your labor, birth, and the first 2 hours of care for your baby. Outlining it carefully and thoughtfully is your only insurance for shaping your very best birth experience. Fairy Tale births are created, not encountered! A Birth Vision should not be [...]
Breck Hawk, author of “Hey, Whose Baby is This Anyway?!”, once said regarding choosing books to read during pregnancy, “If it says ask your doctor and trust your doctor, rather than trust your self and the evidence-based research, don’t buy it.” Here are some titles for consideration
Anyone taught sign language to your little one? Two mommybloggers weigh in on the Signing Safari DVDs: Signing Safari DVD Review by Lisa Brown Why Whine When You Can Sign? by Apraxia Mom If you live in Cincinnati, we’re lucky to have Signing Safari taught live at the Cincinnati Family Enrichment Center.
I wrote the post below when I was about halfway through my pregnancy. Since then, I have become absolutely persuaded about the value of certain pregnancy, birth, feeding, and parenting choices–so much so that I almost find myself unable to understand where anyone who disagrees with me is coming from. It was helpful for me [...]
Our third child, M, was born at ___ Hospital. All in all everything went well. We were able to go naturally, which was great! We were a little concerned about some stories we had heard about the Hospital’s policies in triage for the couples to be separated. I was separated from my husband for forty [...]
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We had a great labor and delivery and had a beautiful healthy baby girl on 2/24/2010 at 4:25 a.m. She was born on her due date, if you can believe that!
They say that women become mothers as soon as they learn they are pregnant. I think “they,” whoever “they” are, are right in a sense. Certainly, the instant I saw the two blue lines, I felt the instinct to take care of myself, to protect this new life, to google whether I could safely eat [...]
We occasionally come across a product or service or blog that is too good not to mention. Today’s recommendation is for our expectant dads. So maybe you don’t want to pour over Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering or the 700 other books mom-to-be has ordered recently. Check out http://www.mrdad.com/ for resources that will guide you from [...]