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“I didn’t know what I didn’t know.”

June 17, 2012 By Deena Leave a Comment

I hear this quite a bit from moms who are pregnant with their second or third child. I hear this from moms who didn’t take a childbirth preparation class. I also hear it from moms who took a childbirth prep class that focused on natural birth only and neglects to cover the reality of hospital birth in […]

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: Birth, C-section, Childbirth Education Classes, Coping Skills, Decision making, Emotional State, Expectations, Fathers, Fear, Ideal Birth, Interventions, Labor, Lamaze, OB, Pittsburgh, Pregnancy, Traumatic Birth, Water breaking

Tuesday Inspirations #3

June 12, 2012 By Deena Leave a Comment

“Having a baby is hard enough. No woman should be asked to do anything else while she is having a baby. She shouldn’t have to renegotiate a birth plan, argue with her care providers about the evidence supporting her decisions, or advocate for her baby. She also shouldn’t have to comfort her husband or reassure […]

Filed Under: Inspirations, Main Blog Page Tagged With: Birth, Birth Plan, Communication, Inspirational Pregnancy and Birth Quotes, Labor, Pittsburgh, Pregnancy

Healing from Traumatic Birth, a video.

June 11, 2012 By Deena Leave a Comment

A little video of me, talking about my yoga workshop, Healing from Traumatic Birth. I offer this workshop quarterly at Shining Light Prenatal Education. For more information about the workshop and to sign up, please click here. This video was originally posted on Diary of a First Time Mom.

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: Healing, In the Press, Pittsburgh, The Center, Traumatic Birth, Videos, yoga

Fertility Yoga, a video.

June 7, 2012 By Deena Leave a Comment

A little video of yours truly talking about the benefits of Fertility Yoga. Previous blog post regarding Fertility Yoga can be found here. You can sign up for the next Fertility Yoga session by clicking here. To see the full post by Diary of a First Time Mom, please click here.

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: Fertility Yoga, In the Press, Infertility, Media, Pittsburgh, The Center, Videos, yoga

Mommy and Me Yoga captured on video!

June 5, 2012 By Deena Leave a Comment

A little video from Diary of a First Time Mom about our Mommy & Me Yoga classes. Click here for the original post, too.

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: In the Press, Media, Mommy & Me Yoga, Pittsburgh, The Center, Videos, yoga

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