Sharon Said, Founder of the Cincinnati Family Enrichment Center, former doula and hypnobirthing instructor now has a hypnosis CD, A Birthday Celebration, available on Amazon! Check out this positive and calming CD from a Cincinnati local! Listen Here!
InEurope, midwives assist at more than 70% of normal vaginal births. Though midwives assisted at only 8% of American babies in 2006, that percentage has been slowly increasing. But most Americans aren’t sure what midwives do, how they’re trained, or if they’re even available. The word “midwife” comes from Old English and means “with woman.” [...]
Interviewing a doctor or a midwife to help you when you give birth is one of the most important interviews that you will ever have. During this relatively brief period of time you need to have a lot of questions answered and yet have a sense of your ability to trust this person in important [...]
If you want a more natural, family-centered birthing experience without routine medical interventions a birth center might be the right option for you. If you choose an accredited birth center, you’ll be cared for by licensed professionals, with a backup hospital nearby or actually attached to the center for immediate care if any complications arise. Birth [...]
Bringing a child into this world naturally is an amazing experience and something you are more than capable of doing. Having a natural birth is not a passing fad or something only hippies do, it’s a growing trend with modern women who are tired of the constraints and lack of control associated with a typical [...]
The focus of Reflexology is on the feet and hands where the nerve endings are located. The feet and hands mirror the entire body and every organ and body part can be found in them. This treatment seeks to help balance the body through these points and is profoundly relaxing while energetically stimulating. It can [...]
To be able to enjoy your children you need an occasional opportunity to recharge your batteries. Your body works hard for you, and goes above and beyond the call of duty while parenting young children. It deserves a rest now and then. If experts agree that 80 to 90 percent of disease is stress-related then [...]
One of the top priorities of this site is to provide you with information and options based on evidence-based research for enhancing the ease, pleasure, and safety with which you birth. We can best refer to this philosophy as “undisturbed birth”, acknowledging that the process of birth can be very simple if we can avoid [...]
The Power of Nothing with HypnoBirthing “Nothing” works! We see it often – HypnoBirthing mothers accept that they have the ability to relax through the first phase of labor. But when it comes to talking about the baby’s descent and birthing, the question is, “What do I do then?” My answer is always the same [...]