In short – YES! Ok and now for the longer answer: Your anesthesiologist won’t come to your house and you won’t be admitted to the hospital if you are too early in labor. So, what do you do while you labor at home? How do you know when to go into the hospital? What if […]
Placentophagia – Consuming your own placenta. Benefits or Placebo Effect?
Ok, well technically, the placenta is the baby’s since it shares his DNA… but I digress. There’s been quite a bit in the news this week about placenta eating. Mad Men star, January Jones let it be known that she consumed her encapsulated placenta after her baby was born, per her doula’s suggestion. The original […]
Free Film Screening of DOULA!
We are so excited to be a part of a week of free Film Screenings for “DOULA! – The Ultimate Birth Companion”. Shining Light Prenatal Education is working with two local doulas – Mary Carroll and Debi Sciranka to bring this film to you. The screening is free and open to the public, so please […]
It’s not the Method, it’s the Mother.
Bradley, Hypnobabies, Brio Birth, Birthing from Within, Lamaze and so many others… Does it matter which flavor of childbirth education you take? Maybe. Every method has its benefits. However, every method is not for every mother. Not every mother needs a method; not every method will work for an individual mother. I note that we […]
Prenatal Yoga, Weird Baby Products and more on Science & Sensibility.
So, where have my blog posts been for February? I was invited by Kimmelin Hull and Linda Harmon to be the guest community manager over on Science & Sensibility. I took the honor with much enthusiasm as I wrote my own pieces and highlighted the works of others. The pieces I wrote are listed and […]