Do I Need to Take A Childbirth Education Class? Birth: a journey in life On this, one of the most important journeys of your life, don’t you want to be sure you’ve made careful preparations? Just imagine yourself going into any journey, not knowing what to expect, having no education on what to anticipate, and …
What Does a Postpartum Doula Do? How Does a BirthWorks Postpartum Doula support a new mother and her baby? Our unique training instills confidence to help you serve new mothers and their families through a human values approach that is sure to make the weeks at home with a newborn, more joyful ones. Welcoming a …
Parents, if you have landed here, you are on your way to being amazing parents. Below are the quickest tips that summarize some key things we teach new parents in Child Birth Education classes. We hope they empower you to learn and ask more, as well as create some wonderment about birth and mothers’ abilities: …
By Cathy Daub, Christine Wood, and Cristin Tighe “Birth is a dynamic happening, not a passive endurance test.” -Jean Sutton Birth is one of life’s most powerful, intimate, and transformative experiences. It is the moment when two journeys—the mother’s and the baby’s—intertwine most profoundly. Yet, in modern maternity care, birth is often presented as something …
Light and love are inherent in many holidays, especially this time of year. We love to see light and we feel peace when we feel loved. One characteristic of love is attraction. Newborn babies are full of love – oxytocin is the hormone of love and what helps a woman’s uterus contract to birth her …
The birthing of my career as a childbirth educator and doula began over 18 years ago, on a cold fall evening as I pushed out my VBAC baby into the bed he was conceived in, surrounded in peace and love and welcomed earth side by his parents, grandmother, and loving midwives. There is something so …
Birthing in the Spirit She labored in the water, feeling her body becoming lighter as her abdomen tightened in another contraction. Her partner looked at her saying, “Are you okay?” with a thumbs up to encourage her. She smiled back at him looking relaxed in the water. But inside she felt huge. Her mind was …
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 …
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 have BirthWorks philosophy as a framework, then …
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