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7 Alternative ways to prepare for childbirth and cope with the intensity of labor.
Carlsbad, CA (PRWEB) — As the shift toward self-education continues to grow, large numbers of American women are choosing alternative ways to prepare for childbirth and cope [...]
Ulterior Motives of Your OB-GYN
Did Your Doctor Recommend a C-Section Just So He Could Get Home for Dinner? Learn About Unnecessary Medical Interventions in Labor and How to Avoid Them
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Moms: Do you really need that C-section or epidural? Registered nurse and midwife Breck Hawk, author of “Hey! Who’s Having This Baby Anyway?” reveals why these procedures are often [...]
How to Choose a Doula
” Doula is a Greek word which means a woman who helps another woman. In regards to childbirth, a doula is a woman who provides support to the mother, in labor or pospartum, and possibly also to their family. Over the last 20 years more than 13 scientific studies have shown that when one woman [...]
What to Expect From a Hospital Birth
Occasionally, babies run into a few difficulties while making their way into the world. Special procedures may be needed for example, to aid your baby’s exit from the birth canal. Or, if your baby’s health is at risk, a cesarean delivery may be required. Don’t forget, that no matter how the birth goes, a healthy [...]
Epidural Risk: Backwards Babies
Most women know — or should know — that epidurals have risks associated with them. Epidurals can lead to the often quoted “cascade of interventions.” A recent study has brought to light a surprising and amazingly common side effect of epidural intervention. This side effect brings on even more risks, including high rates of cesarean [...]
Risks of Childbirth Interventions
In spite of all the advertising touting “home-like” birthing rooms in hospitals, for most women, a hospital birth will be nothing like a home birth. Interventions are routine in the hospitals in my state. Every laboring woman will be hooked up for some period of time to an electronic fetal monitor, given vaginal exams, and [...]
Pain Management in Childbirth
by Lena Leino
Pain in childbirth is normal, healthy, and productive — and ends with the ecstasy of your baby’s birth. Although management of labor pain plays less important role in a mother’s satisfaction with childbirth, compared with the quality of the relationship with her labor support and her ability to take part in decision making, [...]
My Birth Doula
by Suzanne Doyle-Ingram
By the time my husband and I finally got pregnant the first time, I had done a lot of reading about birth options and we had already decided to have a midwife instead of a doctor. We believe that pregnancy is a healthy state of being, and unless something came up, a midwife [...]
Pain Relief During Childbirth
Giving birth can an extremely uncomfortable and painful experience for many mothers, and while for some women labor goes quickly and relatively easily, for others it can turn into a real ordeal. Where our grandmothers had to go through the pain barrier more or less unaided, there are quite a few options available for today’s [...]
Self Hypnosis and Natural Childbirth
With the re-emergence of natural childbirth as the preferred method of delivery, many mothers opt to go for the nearly pain-free technique using self-hypnosis for natural childbirth. In fact, many schools of thought and even established associations and institutes have come out to promote self-hypnosis for natural childbirth.
HypnoBirthing™ and Hypno-Beginning ™ are examples of such [...]
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