We often hear concerns from parents of babies taken into neonatal units after birth about the possible adverse effects of antibiotics that seem to be given routinely. They are also upset about the distress caused to the baby by injections or the insertion of needles or tubes. As all of us know nowadays, our intestines […]
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(in birthing) Often women are told that they are carrying Group B Strep. Can they birth naturally without intervention and more importantly – are antibiotics even necessary? Why not look back to nature? Ask why is the overgrowth of the bacteria there – and change the environment so the bad bugs are naturally knocked off.
Yesterday I was speaking with a private hospital midwife who was relating a wonderful birthing story. She was with a mum who had an ecstatic water birth and who was in heaven. Mum had specified that a physiological third stage was exactly what she intended – and she was likely to have this with a
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Want to have the body you had before baby? Easy – start working to make it so as soon as you come home. Dad can easily spend a few minutes outside using moxa to help you feel better – and coincidentally – if there is a milk supply deficit – the instructions to fix this
Healing After C section, or any birth Read More »
As easy as changing your focus. Why would you hurry nature? So far she has worked perfectly. Perhaps take more Magnesium, rest more and focus on what sort of mother you want to be. You will not be able to control anything about your baby after birth – as s/he is their own person. Why
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Henci Goer has published an extensive list of articles relating to choices in childbirth. Please read these and know how to ask for what is best for you and your baby.
Informed Choices in Childbirth Read More »
“Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just open up and bloom at the first kiss of the sun but you wouldn’t dream of pulling open the petals of the tightly closed buds and forcing them to blossom on your time line.” — Gloria Lemay Why Normal Birth Matters
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Having a set time limit (only since scanning happened along less than 30 years ago) after which the uterus is apparently then an unsafe place belies nature – women grow babies perfectly. What happens when we interfere with normal? We don’t get normal mother and baby interactions .. . (Is this safe?) Have you asked what
Induction – How it might affect you Read More »
(Written long ago) from a birthing mother’s perspective . . . I have included this, as being a mother, shaped my experience as a healer and as an author. I would hope that the book/DVDs I have written including What Dads Can Do, allows parents to do what I did not — take charge and
Forty Years+ of Maternity Care Read More »