by Liza Janda | Aug 24, 2016 | Bradley Method, Natural Birth Stories |
Camlan Michael was born on Monday at 35 weeks, 5 days. Here is my birth story… At 35 weeks 5 days pregnant I woke up at 3:30am to a popping sound, similar to snapping your fingers. Snap, snap and I knew exactly what it was. After going to the bathroom and...
by Liza Janda | Aug 22, 2016 | Doulas I Know |
This is the story of how Debbie Shelton became a doula/Monitrice, written by Debbie and edited by Liza Janda For twenty years I was so fortunate to support women through the life-changing event of becoming a mother. I was a labor and delivery nurse and I loved my job!...
by Liza Janda | Jul 27, 2016 | Bradley Method, Healing From Traumatic Birth, Labor and Birth Advice |
PICTURE PERFECT PREGNANCY I had a picture perfect pregnancy. It was absolutely blissful! I ate right; exercised almost daily, attended Bradley Method classes, went to prenatal yoga, meditated, practiced relaxation, prayed and created a birth plan dripping in beauty...
by Liza Janda | Jul 14, 2016 | Easier Labor & Birth, Group B Strep & Pregnancy |
How and when did this issue of PROM (Premature Rupture Of Membranes) and risk of infection become an urgent problem? It used to be that if you were part of the 10-12% of women who were full term (37-42 weeks), and whose waters broke before labor began, you would just...
by Liza Janda | Jun 2, 2016 | Natural Birth Stories |
I didn’t know what to expect exactly with this second pregnancy. My first live birth was my daughter and she was born at 42 weeks after 8 hours of pitocin and 5.5 hours of labor. I had a lot of expectations for this second baby’s delivery – things that I wanted to “do...
