The Power of Water

Water is essential to the human body.  In fact, the brain is 75% water.  Do you find yourself dehydrated very often?  A striking fact that may get you to think about drinking more water each day is that when you become dehydrated, your brain actually shrinks.1   An interesting study carried out on nine to eleven …

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Interview with the Global Health and Travel Magazine in Singapore

Answers by Cathy Daub – President of BirthWorks International Question – The World Health Organisation (WHO) now advises medical staff and midwives to stop speeding up birth unless there are real risks of complication. This contradicts their previous advice stating that labour progressing at a slower rate than one centimetre of cervical dilation per hour in the first …

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Recipe-Corn Bean Salsa in Cucumber Cups

Ingredients: 1 can, fresh or frozen organic corn1 can organic black beans rinsed1 red pepper1 pint of grape tomatoes1 purple onion1 jalapeño pepper1/2 cup chopped cilantroJuice from one lime2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar3 cucumbers cut in thick rounds with middle scooped out.. be careful not to go all the way through.. I use a …

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Integrating the Mind, Body, and Spirit in Birth: An Emotional Preparation for Birth

Teaching about birth is straightforward: the challenge is to get women to trust and believe in their own ability to give birth. Being present at a birth, we soon become aware that an emotional, trans-formative, sacred experience is happening.  It is in this emotional state that a laboring mom feels her hormones raging from deep …

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The “BirthWorks Open Hands Relaxation”

Simple, Effective, and Powerful for Labor All parts of the human body are connected by fascia. Our skeleton gives us support but it is the fascia that is like the guidelines holding up a tent, that holds everything in place. Because everything is so connected what happens in one part of the body affects the …

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Recipe: Kale Waldorf Salad

This salad is packed with Nutrients that are very important to keep mom healthy and baby growing. Kale is considered a super food.  1 cup has 145 mg of Calcium which is needed for healthy bone development in the baby and helps regulate mom’s blood pressure.  It contains Vitamin C which will help boost mom’s …

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Testimonials from the 2017 Conference

Ina May Gaskin, MidwifeI think the BWI Conference was really special this year. I found it very encouraging, educational and inspiring, so what more could you ask for than that? I’ll be happy to come back again. Being a presenter this year was easy, relaxed, with a congenial environment, and I met some good people …

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The Myth of the Small Pelvis

Did you know that all people are about the same size from their neck to their groin? You can know that this is true because when we sit around the table together, we are looking about the same size.  This is because what makes us taller or shorter is the growth of the epiphseal plates …

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Seeking a Balance

The biomedical and systems approaches to labor and birth by Cathy Daub P.T. This article was recently published in the magazine Pathways To Family Wellness, Issue 48. The knowledge of how to give birth is already inside every woman. Women need encouragement to have more faith in, and a greater appreciation for, their bodies’ wisdom. …

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