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| We all want our children to grow up strong, healthy and happy. What then, when we have a child with special needs? ...more |
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| As a child of the fifties, my idea of childbirth came from old American sitcoms. The mother is closeted away, the father chain-smokes pacing the hospital waiting room. ...more |
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| No matter how carefully thought out, nothing ever goes completely to plan. When we are talking about birth plans that is especially true. ...more |
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| In 2003 Adela Stockton a registered midwife, doula, childbirth educator and qualified homeopath from Edinburgh, wrote the following paper which appeared in the MIDIRS Midwifery Digest. ...more |
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| I was awake, as usual, at 5 a.m., staring at the wall, wishing that I were asleep when I thought I had wet my pants.
I hopped up to go to the loo and noticed a little blood which was the mucous plug coming away. Then a gush of water came that I knew was ...more |
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| Being informed is the best way to have a good childbirth. Here, the American Foundation for Maternal and Child Health provides some basic information to support the pregnant couple to make wise choices when confronted with over zealous health professional ...more |
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| Obstetricians have turned birth into a surgical procedure and done damage to women’s bodies and now suggest the solution is to promote yet even more radical and aggressive surgery: caesarean section. ...more |
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| In 2001, actress Ricki Lake gave birth to her second child in her home—with the assistance of a midwife. She decided to birth at home after she experienced unwanted medical interventions while delivering her first child. ...more |
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| Pregnancy is such a wonderful, magical time when considering the hidden processes in the belly and beyond! It is also an opportunity for women to gather together and nurture, celebrate, pamper and recognise the pregnant woman. ...more |
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| Western culture has built an entire system of care — obstetrics — around the belief a woman is not able to successfully birth on her own. ...more |
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| If you’re like most women you probably didn’t give your pelvic floor a second thought until you were pregnant. Even then, if you neither leaked nor did specific pelvic floor work to prepare for birth you may have remained blissfully unaware. ...more |
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| • Children are born with Down’s Syndrome approximately one in 700 births.
• It is a misconception to think that children with Down’s Syndrome are born to women over 35 years.
• Two-thirds of all children with Down’s Syndrome are born to mothers under 35 ...more |
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| Giving birth in ecstasy: This is our birth right and our body's intent. Mother Nature, in her wisdom, prescribes birthing hormones that take us outside (ec) our usual state (stasis), so that we can be transformed on every level as we enter motherhood.
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| Birth, She is dying... This primal and unspeakably powerful initiation, the only road to motherhood for our ancestors, has been stripped of Her dignity and purpose in our times. Birth has become a dangerous medical disease to be treated with escalating le ...more |
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| Without embodied love, peace is not possible. Without integrative bodily pleasure, moral behaviours of peace, harmony and human equality are not possible. Depression replaces joy and drugs are sought to drown the depression, the anger and rage that escala ...more |
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| Parenting can be a lonely and isolated life. Robin Grille lays out some steps to create a support group that works. Getting the parental support that is needed is vital to the growth of our children and our society. ...more |
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| Our homebirth with Kaede` was difficult to plan. Firstly, I had to find a willing midwife to travel to Theodore. This took me months of emails and phone calls. I’m sure every midwife in Australia and a few from around the globe got the standard, 'do yo ...more |
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| Parents need support raising children. Our society puts mum alone at home, when everyone's interests are best served by mums creating their own community and support networks. ...more |
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| The actual process of opening to give birth is a gateway for complete transformation on all levels of our being. Inherent in this transformative process is the awakening of dormant capabilities that give rise to expanded states of being. ...more |
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| For many women the thought of having a caesarean is terrifying, the knowledge that after viewing your newborn child, you may be unable to hold or even see your baby for at least an hour (sometimes longer), can be devastating. Paula Beckton experienced a ...more |
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| Post Natal Depression (PND) affects at least one in ten mothers around the world. While this painful and debilitating condition afflicts mothers — within four weeks of giving birth — it is also stressful for family relationships and detrimental to mother– ...more |
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| There are many things to consider when planning your pregnancy, labour and birth. It is important to remember that there are many options available, and you need to consider your own expectations and birth experience before deciding. For example, the foll ...more |
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| Birth groups all over the country arecampaigning for reform of Australia’s birth care services. With the crisis in current care systems, the National Maternity Action Plan helps us all sing the same song towards change. We are on the threshold of a rare o ...more |
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| The night before giving birth to our daughter stayed up with my Mum and husband Greg and watched 'Memoirs of a Geisha', interestingly about the plight of under- privileged girls in Japan, thinking how lucky our soon to be born daughter was to be born in A ...more |
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| It always seemed wrong to me that birth should take place in a hospital. Even before coming to my eventual informed decision to plan homebirths for my children, I felt instinctively that there must be a better way… a birthing woman is not sick, and doesn ...more |
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| I decided that I needed to get just a bit more sleep that morning when the alarm went off. I turned it off, rolled over, and slept. After all, it was Christmas Eve- I deserved a bit of a break. Especially since it had been ages since I’d had a good night ...more |
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| I fell pregnant easily with Rhett. It was about a month after my husband and I were married and we were determined to fall pregnant quickly. I am writing this story now as Rhett’s 3rd birthday approaches us in less than two weeks away. How quickly time ...more |
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| My 17-year-old daughter, Ellie, came home from school the other day telling me about a conversation that had happened in her art class. One of her friends was asking the teacher about childbirth, ‘does it really hurt?’ ...more |
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| The great story of the heart entering form. You have been watching us and waiting. It cannot be an easy return. We know you are near us. Dreams and omens herald your arrival.
Walking the earth like a man who has lost his mind, his bearings, his sorrow. I ...more |
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| Many women are choosing to have an ultrasound during pregnancy with no idea of the hazards involved for their baby. Is ultrasound an innocuous wonder that allows us to know the sex of our baby and watch him/her in the womb and detect some abnormalities, o ...more |
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| ... a true birth story compiled by Katrina Folkwell
Just an hour ago I was peacefully asleep and now here I am feeling as if a rocket is torpedoing through me.
I had awakened to a deep rumbling belly, gone off to the toilet, nothing out of the ordinary, ...more |
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| “I’m going to be the talking womb,” she says. She tells me that’s her opening line. Sounds like an actor speaking about a role, doesn’t it? But Marie Burrows is no actor. In fact, she’s about as real as you get. Sure, she role-plays. But don’t we all? She ...more |
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| There’s nothing more refreshing than a dip in the ocean, the freedom, weightlessness and buoyancy. For a woman in labour, those qualities of water provide incredible, infinite benefits.
When a woman relaxes in warm water, free from the pull of gravity a ...more |
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| This is part of a series of true birth stories excerpted from the book “The First Breath”, compilation and photography by Katrina Folkwell. Katrina believes that each story read will touch hearts and profoundly help others in their own journey of entering ...more |
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