Posts Tagged ‘natural birth’

• Birth: How time changes perspectives and desires

  Date: 2011.07.04 | Category: Birth | Response: 6

  Today we have a guest post from Momma Jorje, a “slightly crunchy momma” with a great blog about parenting. She gave birth three times at very different ages, and is pregnant again with Number Four. Enjoy reading this mother’s take on giving birth!

  I first became pregnant at sixteen years old in 1989. I didn’t know much and I didn’t research much. I was an average student in school. I did attend the birthing classes provided through my hospital, which were Lamaze. Those classes consisted of three sessions. My stepmother was to be my birthing coach. I somehow knew, instinctually, that I would not want her to do the back massage.

  

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• Natural pain relief techniques during labor

  Date: 2010.08.07 | Category: Birth | Response: 7

  Yesterday, I discussed the many risks of epidural anesthesia, which has become such a wide-spread pain relief method in childbirth that many women think it is their only option. Today, we will take a look at other pain relief techniques during labor. There are many proactive steps a laboring woman can undertake to gain relief from the pain that sometimes comes with contractions. Many of them are simple and common-sense. Here are some things any woman can do to make her labor and birth a more pleasant, and less painful experience. Read the rest of this entry »

• Five ways to have a great hospital birth

  Date: 2010.07.10 | Category: Hospital Birth | Response: 3

  Whether you have a medical need to birth in a hospital, or you are choosing to have your baby in a hospital for personal or even insurance reasons, there are things you can do to ensure you will have the birth you want. Here are five ways to have a great hospital birth for natural-minded mamas.

  

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