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Ready, Set, Breastfeed! – Check List For The New Breastfeeding Mom by Liza Janda AAHCC
In addition to learning how to have the safest and healthiest birth possible, Bradley Method classes teach you how to breastfeed, so ready, set, breastfeed! Get a flawless latch. Here’s how to breastfeed: Put baby tummy to tummy with you so she doesn’t have to turn...
Healing From An Unexpected Cesarean Surgery at Home
First and foremost, you will need to do everything you can to heal as quickly as possible from your surgery. Can you really heal quickly when you have to take care of a newborn 24/7? Well…..It's going to take a while so be patient. Here are some steps to follow that...
Help Your Baby Do A Headstand-How To Turn A Breech Baby
15 Ways To Turn A Breech Baby
Why Can’t You Just Move On? The Fallout Of Your Unplanned Cesarean Surgery
Some women feel extreme grief and sorrow over the loss of the birth experience they had dreamed of. Not only must they heal physically, they need to heal from the emotional damage from the birth trauma they experienced. Many struggle for months and even years.
Recipe For A Safe and Healthy Birth: Seven Ingredients You Need For A Great Birth
by Liza Janda AAHCC, E-RYT, RPYT If you want a safe and healthy birth for both you and your baby, take the time to understand what is normal in labor and birth. Understanding the physiology of labor, or the normal function of our bodies during labor, can take away a...
When To Go To Your Birthplace? Use This Active Labor Formula To Decide
Before you even decide when to go to your birth place during labor, you have to get through early labor. Stay home as long as you can and labor at home, before even thinking about when to go to your birth place. Staying home during labor is usually longer than you think you should and longer than you may want to. But your labor will be a lot more productive if you stay at home.
A Wonderful Feeling Of Accomplishment – I knew I had done the best for me and my baby/
I started noticing the start of early labor around 3PM on Monday. Contractions were coming about every 15 minutes, and labor continued that way through the evening. Since we had been taught in our Bradley Method classes to ignore labor as long as we could, I went...
Informed Consent in Childbirth-Should I Really Have To Ask?
Although I knew my informed consent questions, inside and out, I wasn’t ever really given a clear opportunity to use them. But should I really have to ask? Isn’t my caregiver legally obligated to inform me of all of the risks and benefits of any procedure?
Group B Strep and Premature Rupture of Membranes-What To Do? by Liza Janda
Do you have options if you have tested positive for Group B Strep in pregnancy? Below is a table with information from the CDC and what the CDC recommends regarding Group B Strep in pregnancy.
Sacroiliac Pain In Pregnancy: 10 Prenatal Yoga Poses To Strengthen and Stretch by Liza Janda
There are two main causes of sacroiliac pain and back pain in pregnancy.
One is stiffness or lack of flexibility in the pelvic muscles, or your sacroiliac joints are hyper-mobile or extremely flexible. WHAT CAN HELP
Increase flexibility by practicing the 10 yoga stretches below to relieve back pain and sacroiliac pain in pregnancy.
If lack of flexibility is the issue get regular chiropractic adjustments will help relieve back pain in pregnancy.
If hyper-flexibility is the issue, work on strengthening the lower back and core muscle groups to increase stability and reduce stress on the lower back.
