Childbirth Preparation
The Magical, Magnificent Placenta
Modern, detached women may view the placenta with disgust and revulsion, but it is a highly evolved, incredible organ that carries both function, spirit and yes, nutrition.
How to Make Hospital Births Better
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Childbirth RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If you have been following the AMA resolution regarding homebirth, you simply must read this well written, eloquent and very useful article written by Navelgazingmidwife. It includes 11 steps that hospitals, labor and delivery nurses and [...]
Sex after Childbirth
A recent article in Psychology Today looked at how a couple’s sexual relationship is affected following childbirth. Like many articles before it, it primarily examined in the difference in attitudes following cesarean births vs vaginal births and the main focus seemed to be on the pelvic floor. On the outside, it seems to [...]
AMA, Homebirth and Free Publicity
The AMA recently passed a resolution to “ban homebirth” as a response to the Ricki Lake documentary, The Business of Being Born. The AMA is a medical association designed to protect the interests of medical doctors (not birthing mothers) so not only is there a blatant and inherent conflict of interest in their wishes, [...]
Antibiotics for Episiotomy Health
A new study by researchers at Stanford and Santa Clara Medical Center concluded that women who receive antibiotic injections after bad tears or episiotomies have a better outcome with fewer infections. That is unfortunate since many, if not almost all tears are caused by unnatural birth positions, drugs to induce labor and forced pushing. [...]
Hypnotherapy for Childbirth
“HypnoBirthing® provides the missing link that allows women to use their natural instincts to bring about a safer, easier, more comfortable birthing. Emphasis is placed on pregnancy and childbirth, as well as on pre-birth parenting and the consciousness of the pre-born baby. ” Hypnobirthing.com
Author: Jamie McMillan
Ever thought about having a natural childbirth and then scared [...]
How to Prepare for an Unplanned Cesarean
Most women wish to avoid a cesarean despite popular opinion that women are opting for surgery vs. vaginal birth. The unfortunate reality is, however, that if you choose to give birth in a hospital, you are going to subject yourself to arbitrary labor timelines, potentially harmful interventions and monitoring that will increase your chances [...]
She Births: A Modern Woman’s Guidebook for an Ancient Rite of Passage
“She Births: A Modern Woman’s Guidebook for an Ancient Rite of Passage” by Marcie Macari explores the Spiritual side of childbirth that is often overlooked or missing entirely in modern medically managed childbirths.
Macari makes an excellent argument for all women to explore within to find their Divine Feminine and take that to their pregnancy [...]
Childbirth Education Expenses Deductible
Here is a nice tax tip from The Mommy Blawg. ABC News recently reported onTax Deductions You Should Know About and this is a useful tip for many of our readers: If you are able to itemize your medical expenses, you can include certain fertility treatments and the fees paid for childbirth [...]
Video: Ecstatic Childbirth Video
I don’t normally care for childbirth videos that are taken from between mom’s legs while she is lying down. For one thing, it cements the idea in the viewer’s head that this is an appropriate position for childbirth, when it is actually the worst. Secondly, it is normally demeaning, degrading and objectifying [...]
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