by Liza Janda | May 3, 2017 | Yoga and Pregnancy, yoga class, Yoga in the Workplace |
First, congratulations for joining the over 21 million people in the United States who practice yoga! Since I’ve been teaching and practicing yoga for over 15 years, I’ve seen a lot of really bad yoga mats that cause people all kinds of aggravation and pain. Don’t Buy...
by Liza Janda | May 2, 2017 | Breastfeeding, Bringing Baby Home Postpartum Care, Postpartum |
by Liza Janda If you’re like most women in the U.S. you probably had a cascade of interventions during labor and birth to help get your baby out. The use of these interventions – IV, epidural, pitocin, analgesia, antibiotics – can often be very helpful but...
by Liza Janda | Apr 6, 2017 | Bradley Method, Labor and Birth Advice, Pregnant in San Diego |
I’ve been teaching childbirth classes since 1995. My students’ goals are to have safe, healthy, and natural births. Sometimes the stars align and things fall into place and those goals are reached. Sometimes choices my students make or choices their care providers...
by Liza Janda | Apr 3, 2017 | Bradley Method, Natural Birth Stories, VBAC |
WE HAD A LOT OF FEARS ABOUT MY VBAC ATTEMPT We had a lot of fears that I wasn’t going to go into labor naturally and that would interfere with my VBAC attempt. We also feared that baby was going to be really late in coming. Because our goal was to have a VBAC, those...
by Liza Janda | Feb 16, 2017 | Bringing Baby Home Postpartum Care, Labor and Birth Advice, Postpartum |
I get this question frequently in my childbirth classes, ”Should I store my baby’s cord blood?” Let me tell you, I know next to nothing about this subject. I know a lot of information about having a normal, safe, and healthy pregnancy, labor, and birth, but that’s...