I just found a good video I had stored away in my “to read / watch” files. My friend’s 2 year old sun cuddled up and watched it with me; at the end he said “well, that was very interesting!”… although perhaps he just likes the moving images on a screen, I like to think he integrated a BIT of… Read more →
Adrienne & Dennis’ Home Birth
Adrienne and Dennis had a beautiful Hypnobabies home birth; the first of two births I attended on my birthday this year (you can read about the other birth here). I received the following testimonial from them today, and burst into tears reading their kind words and remembering how amazing they were to spend time with both before and during their… Read more →
How To Tell If Your Care Provider TRULY Supports Your Birth Plan.
Your doula and prenatal instructor may have suggested you prepare a list of priorities and preferences to discuss with your birthing care provider so the two of you can see if you have the same ideas about what kind of care you can expect during your birth. So, you’ve educated yourself about options, know type of approach you want your… Read more →
Catchin’ a birthday baby
So, I caught a baby for the first time last week. On my birthday… a day where I attended not one, but TWO Hypnobabies home births back-to-back. Pretty awesome birthday gift. Two births, one catch and one pair of amniotic fluid-soaked jeans later, I got into my beloved bath tub just before midnight on my birthday and thought, now THAT… Read more →
Trying to start a “stalled” birth process???
I shared a snapshot from my birth journal a while ago about births that take a few days to get into the steadily-progressing phase of the birth process. While I have a very trusting philosophy about childbirth and believe that births that take their time picking up, slowing down, and picking back up again are doing so because that is… Read more →