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It’s not the Method, it’s the Mother.

March 8, 2012 By Deena 5 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Home Page, Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: Birthing from Within, Birthing Methods, Bradley Method, Brio Birth, Childbirth Education Classes, Communication, Coping Skills, Decision making, Emotional State, Expectations, Fear, Hypnobabies, Labor, Lamaze, Mothers, Pittsburgh, Sexual Abuse, Traumatic Birth, yoga

Birth Story: Christine’s birth – Connor Michael

November 3, 2011 By Deena Leave a Comment

Written by Christine, to share with all of you! As requested, however, I just wanted to share a little bit about my birth with you: Connor Michael was born October 3rd 2011 (about 6 days after my due date) at 2:45am. I started having some small contractions the morning of the 2nd. I took about […]

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: birth story, breastfeeding, Childbirth Education Classes, Coping Skills, Fear, Labor, Lamaze, Position, Water breaking, yoga

The 4 “P’s” of Birth – The Need to Sync your Body, your Baby and Your Mind

June 18, 2011 By Deena 4 Comments

When most of us hear about birth it’s in the singular, “When I was in labor…” or “The baby just didn’t budge.” or “They told me my pelvis was just too small.” or “I felt really strong and proud of giving birth naturally.” All of these things describe just one component of labor and birth. […]

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: C-section, Coping Skills, Emotional State, Fear, Ina May Gaskin, Interventions, Labor, Pain, Position

The Myth of the Painless Childbirth

April 15, 2011 By Deena 18 Comments

Out there in the cloud of birth information is this idea that birth can or should be painless.  Somebody heard a story about a friend of a friend who had just the most blissful, fabulous, painless, even orgasmic birth experience.  There are a number of videos on YouTube which show women in all their birthing […]

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: Coping Skills, Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, Expectations, Interventions, Orgasmic Birth, Pain, Suffering

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