Elizabeth Davis spoke so beautifully about the emotional phases of labor at the Midwifery Today Conference in Mount Laurel, NJ last month. Proposing that there is a sexual nature to birth that correlates with plateaus in labor, and explaining the different states of brainwaves in conjunction with the phases of labor, Elizabeth laid out the …
Chickpea Wraps Ingredients: 1 can chickpeas rinsed, drained and skins peeled off 1 Tsp celery 1 tsp onion 1 tbsp Dijon mustard 1 tbsp avocado + more for topping 1/4 cup chopped tomatoes Whole grain tortilla wraps or romain leafs Mash chickpeas with a fork or put in food processor and pulse …
I had the honor some years ago of escorting Nils Bergman, MD to New Jersey hospitals where he gave talks about the importance of mother baby skin-to-skin contact. He gave a fireside chat at the Stoney Brook Hospital in Long Island that I will never forget. That and along with my physical therapy experience with …
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 …
The concept of birth preparation appeared suddenly in the middle of the twentieth century. “Methods” of preparation started to proliferate. Paradoxically, they were popularized by groups promoting “natural childbirth”, as if the words “methods” and even “preparation” were easily compatible with the word “natural”. The enormous credibility of all these methods is not surprising, since …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I thought I couldn’t do it, I thought I wasn’t strong I saw myself as weak, but I know now I was wrong After all, I always cried at the slightest little thing A stubbed toe or a paper cut would cause my eyes to sting I proceeded to convince myself that once contractions came …
I love teaching BirthWorks classes for so many reasons, but one of the most important is the opportunity to help women achieve what they initially don’t think they can, which is to have both a safe and satisfying birth experience. So many expectant mothers are under the impression that the most they can expect from …
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