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Push for Your Baby, from Lamaze

May 22, 2012 By Deena Leave a Comment

Lamaze International, of which I am a member and a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, has launched a new campaign today called “Push for Your Baby”.  It’s about finding, advocating for and receiving the best care for you and your baby during pregnancy, birth and postpartum. This video is so powerful! Please watch it and learn from these […]

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: Childbirth Education Classes, Decision making, Epidural, Expectations, Interventions, Labor, Lamaze, Media, Pittsburgh, Push for Your Baby, training

How did I get into all this birth stuff?

February 24, 2011 By Deena Leave a Comment

One of the most common questions I get is how and why did I get my start in the field of yoga, pregnancy, birth, etc? Seems like a good entry for the 1st blog post. Entering the “way back machine”… When I was 19, and a precocious college student, a friend of mine discovered a […]

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: C-section, certification, history, Ina May Gaskin, training, VBAC, yoga

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