Why is it called nesting, why is it done, and who does it? Well this thing called nesting is called nesting because it’s kind of an animalistic behavior to prepare for the arrival of the baby. Not that we are animals, well, perhaps we are, but we are civilized so we won’t be filling the [...]
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It’s fact people, plain and simple. The media encourages difficult childbirth. Watch The Secret. You will start to see, what you think about, comes about. If all you hear all day long is bad stuff, “the war on drugs, the protest against war, fight against whatever, of these terrible circumstances keep happening…” does that make [...]
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Are you suffering from leg cramps? The reason why I ask is because I just had a massive one last night. That’s when they usually hit, in the middle of the night when you’re sound asleep, you wake up to this excruciating pain in your leg, right? Well, that’s what happens to me once in [...]
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There are several ways of starting and helping labor progress naturally. By naturally, I mean to say without drugs or medical intervention. Sex is the most obvious, and being that is most likely how you got pregnant in the first place, it’s about as natural as you can get, plus your husband/partner/whatever would probably appreciate [...]
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Yes, yes, wonderful water birth. If you live in “Small Town, USA,” a rural location or the likes of one, you may have a hard time finding facilities for a water birth, or willing attendants. And if you decide to hop on the net to scope out the possibilities there, you are likely to be [...]
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Whether it be a breech presentation, placenta previa, prolasped cord, even twins, when complications arise, it is best to act as swiftly as possible or have a plan in place for if the time comes. Though far and few between, it’s a wide known fact that complications can occur (in my opinion, to widely known [...]
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Water birth was absolutely wonderful for me. You know how, if you are in the shower or the bath too long, your fingers and toes wrinkle? Well they are saturated with water, all they can absorb, and your whole body can benefit from water, inside and out right? Our bodies are primarily made up of [...]
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Most people probably think “depression” when they read “Post Partum,” but really post partum just means after childbirth (simply put). And there shouldn’t be too much depression about that. I haven’t discussed it here before because well, frankly this is still a pretty new blog, and also because everything leading up to pregnancy and birth [...]
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Here is a study that I have found regarding home births and the safety of them. Yes, the initial sentence of the study implies that it may be more difficult, however, when you actually read the study, you’ll discover what that first sentence really means. I’ve included a few quotes from the study here, with [...]
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That’s right. I know, you are probably thinking, “Oh no, is this my mother re-visited?” Well, I know that our parents sent us to bed early because they wanted some peace and quiet, but at the same time, we needed that rest, and as much as I wish it didn’t, that fact still applies. It [...]
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