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...
by Liza Janda | Dec 22, 2016 | Articles, Easier Labor & Birth, Pregnancy headaches., Pregnant in San Diego, Recipes For a Healthy Pregnancy |
Most women have probably heard a sister or a female friend complaining about all the restrictions expecting mothers must deal with when they get pregnant. There are a lot of obvious no-no’s, such as alcohol, tobacco products, and many over-the-counter and prescription...
by Liza Janda | Sep 14, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Nesting On Sunday morning, August 14, I felt very energetic and then was completely exhausted at like 3pm in the afternoon. I cleaned the kitchen, bathroom, vacuumed, cleaned the oven, finished laundry and then was completely tired and exhausted. And I’ve been...