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Visualization Script to Prepare For an Unexpected Cesarean Birth
You can listen to this recording or read the script below. by Liza Janda This is a visualization to prepare you for an unexpected Cesarean Birth. You have taken lots of time and effort to have a healthy pregnancy and to create your ideal birth. You’ve already shown...
Ideas For The Best Cesarean Possible by Penny Simkin
By Penny Simkin C-Mama Healing Salve 30 ml (1 oz) - $29.95Our amazing bodies are naturally designed to close wounds, soothe inflammations and rashes, staunch bleeding, resist infection and fade scars. Yet sometimes even nature's perfection needs a helping hand! You've...
Make Your Own Essential Oils Aromatherapy Spray
Here is the recipe I use for my aromatherapy spray in my prenatal yoga classes. I spray it on eye pillows each student gets at the end of all of my prenatal yoga classes. I’ve made this aromatherapy spray combination for years and sold it to my many of my prenatal...
Priority Number One – Safe, Healthy Birth, Baby, and Mama.
I was pretty determined to have a safe and healthy birth. That was priority number one – safe, healthy birth, baby, and mama. My husband, Chris, and I got educated and fully informed by taking a Bradley Method class. I also wanted to do everything to avoid a long labor. I learned in my Bradley Method class about some tricks and tips that could help labor progress well.
A Mother’s Meditation
This is such a lovely meditation for mothers and mothers-to-be. Have someone read it to you while you practice relaxation to prepare for labor. Or begin each day meditating on being present for yourself and your children. Motherhood is not easy. Give yourself grace. Take a moment and breathe.
The Birth Poem
by Laura Schmitt At 6:29am she was born. Of course she was helpless And frail To the path before her, but she was also determined and Glowing with a newfound warmth. Her body surged with changes that shook the Foundation of Self-image she may have known. Cries arose...
I’ve Never Done Yoga Before! How Do I Know What Kind Of Yoga Mat To Buy?
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...
Breastfeeding Your Baby: 10 Ways To Increase Your Milk Supply
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 can often be very helpful but there are risks along with the benefits. One of those risks is a negative affect on breastfeeding outcomes and a huge challenge to increasing your milk supply.
What is the Microbiome and Why Is It So Important For Your Baby?
One of the most important benefits of normal birth is the Microbiome. Your baby picks up and establishes his Microbiome – immune system – from the mother’s birth canal.
My VBAC – All About Listening To and Trusting My Body and My Coach
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 fears escalated. We had twin girls the first time around and needed a Cesarean birth. So I was determined to have a natural birth and a VBAC.
