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The journey through parenthood and pre-parenthood is often marked by a myriad of road signs that oppose each other and forks in the road that give no hint to where they are going. It can seem at times to be an obstacle course engineered to confuse and inspire fear and doubt in tentative new parents. […]
One day I was walking home from my in-laws’ house. I was pushing my infant daughter in the stroller and my toddler was walking beside me. The baby had fallen asleep and my toddler was deep into one of the complex, somewhat hard to follow, stories she loves to tell me on walks like those. […]
The Future of Birth is focused on spreading the messages of important and inspiring people within the birth community. With talk of 2012 on the horizon, we prepare to enter a time of new and heightened consciousness. It is possible that we can use this energy to change the face of natural birth on this […]
Rebecca was due May 1 and since Catherine (my first, a c-section) had been overdue and my mom’s three had been either overdue or only a day early, I was convinced I’d at least make 39 weeks no problem. We scheduled surgery for her sister Catherine on April 20 when I would be 38+3 with […]
At about 5:30 or 6am I started having pressure waves (Hypnobabies term for contractions) about 10 minutes apart. When my husband’s alarm went off at 6:30 I told him about them and we talked about what he should do. I told him to go ahead and plan on going to work and that I would […]
Women often focus most of their planning on the birth itself, not anticipating the intensity of the learning curve when it comes to breastfeeding. They often assume that this part will come naturally, and can feel surprised or upset if it doesn’t. If I could stress anything, it is to be gentle with yourself. We […]
After 3 days of prodromal labor, spread out over a month, Sunday, September 26, 2010, I was awoken by a trickle feeling, at about 5:30 (I had been having a dream about water, too, ha!). I had thought that since I was already 5 cm dilated, that it might start with my water breaking. I […]
The Future of Birth is focused on spreading the messages of important and inspiring people within the birth community. With talk of 2012 on the horizon, we prepare to enter a time of new and heightened consciousness. It is possible that we can use this energy to change the face of natural birth on this […]
Quite often, I meet women who are looking into (or dreaming about!) homebirth. Sadly, a lot of these women have unsupportive or uneducated (or scared) partners that want to have the baby in the hospital. Even sadder, I’d say many of these couples wind up with unfulfilling experiences in pregnancy and birth because not only […]
