posted by Cristin Tighe, CCE (BWI) Being pregnant teaches us things that ease the transition to caring for a newborn. For example – thinking about another human being (with every bite we eat!), not sleeping through nights, and not being in control during birth – help prepare us emotionally to mother. If additionally, we …
Guest post by Toni Harman
For the past five years, I have been fully immersed in bacteria. More specifically, my partner and I have explored the wonders of the human microbiome, the bacterial ecosystem that lays the foundations for lifelong health.
As documentary filmmakers, we’ve been in a privileged position to travel tens of thousands of miles interviewing dozens of world-leading professors.
What better way to show cardinal movement, rotation of a baby through the pelvis, than by demonstrating with The Baby Way, manufactured by BirthWorks International. This is an “Ah Ha” moment for any pregnant woman, helping her to understand the importance of movement in labor. A must have tool for any Childbirth Educator, Doula, …
by Mali Schwartz A physician who specializes in infertility problems told his colleague the following: “One day I was peering through a microscope at a fertilized ovum, and I realized that all that this cell will have is carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and a few trace metals; and from this single cell will develop a …
Semantics of Birth Brittany Sharpe McCollum, CCE(BWI), CD(DONA) Language has incredible potential to build community, strengthen concepts and definitions, and create empowerment. With these great strengths comes the conflicting potential to to segregate, disempower, and induce fear. Just recently in a class I facilitated, an expectant dad brought up the …
We Must Do More to Honor Birth as a Peak Life Experience ` My name is Molly Wales. I am the director of The Birth Circle (a consumer birth group) in Athens, Ohio, and am a BirthWorks childbirth educator. I’m here today to talk to you about why I believe that we aren’t doing enough …
by Anna Holder CCE(BWI) Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. – Han Suyin The fourth annual Hudson Valley Birth Options panel took an especially hard look at the truth this year. As in previous years a number of childbirth educators, doulas, midwives and mothers form a panel for local families to explore …
By Molly S. Wales CCE(BWI) Our small town of Athens, Ohio is home to a consumer birth group called The Birth Circle. Over the ten years since it began, The Birth Circle has grown from a handful of mothers who got together to share their birth stories, to a powerful community organization that has …
Elizabeth Carrollton writes about defective medical devices and dangerous drugs for Drugwatch.com. One of the main reasons pelvic organ prolapse (POP) occurs is due to childbirth. The stress of birth can, in some cases, shift the organs in the pelvis from their normal positions. The most common organs affected during childbirth are the bladder and …
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