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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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| 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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| 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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| After 3 long years of trying, a miscarriage, Chinese herbs fertility stones and an eventual successful IVF cycle I was to finally be one of the ‘smug mothers.’ ...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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| “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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Martial Arts: a foundation of life & learning
Martial arts can be one of the best things a child could do to prepare him or herself for life.
Rather than an end unto itself, it provides a strong and supportive foundation for children as they move into
other aspects of their lives, be it other sport |
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Beyond Bonding: a mother’s story
Quite often, mothers (and to a lesser extent dads) find themselves needing to re-establish a sense of their own boundaries, after years of a symbiotic merger with their babies. |
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Tahlia, A Birth Story
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 |
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Be proactive with your prenatal care
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 |
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Potty Training: Get Ready
If your child is near or has passed his first birthday, you can begin incorporating pre-potty training ideas into his life. They are simple things that will lay the groundwork for potty training and will make the process much easier when you're ready to b |
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