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Natural Childbirth With Hypnosis
This interview with a HypnoBirthing Practitioner explains how the program helps reduce labor pain and creates a calmer, natural childbirth for mother and baby.
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Choosing the Best Childbirth Class
Parents who are interested in taking a childbirth class need to know what questions to ask the educator before signing up for their childbirth class.
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Preparing For Pregnancy: Childbirth Options
It may not seem logical to decide before conception even occurs whether or not you want to give birth at home or at a hospital, but depending on your decision, the amount of finances it will take and your insurance, deciding right now is perfectly fine. You can never be too prepared for your pregnancy even before it happens. Here’s some food for thought…
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Online Class for Childbirth
As you approach your due date, you may have a number of pregnancy discomforts. Are you familiar with labor terminology? Here is more to help you prepare for birth.
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Choosing a Career as a Doula
Birth Doulas work long hours and often have unreliable income. Yet these women helpers recognize that supporting mothers in labor is very rewarding.
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Don’t forget to pitch in, dad
A look at the new expectations placed on new dads. Are you ready to diaper?
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Episiotomy-Is It Necessary?
When is episiotomy necessary and how you can to prevent or avoid it.
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How helpful is perineal massage?
Preventing perineal tearing is obviously a topic of great interest among women and the people who care for them, I think, because if there is anything that can be done to prevent tearing during birth, women will try it. But how helpful is it?
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Hypnobirthing-What's It All About?
A unique method of relaxed, natural childbirth, enhanced by hypnosis techniques, providing the missing link, that allows women to call upon their natural instincts to bring about a safer, easier, more comfortable birthing in the way that most mirrors nature.
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Is doula care for you?
A Doula "is a woman experienced in childbirth who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to the mother before, during and just after birth." Learn what to expect from a doula and how a doula can help a woman have a safe and satisfying birth.
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Natural Pain Relief for Labor
Opting out of an epidural or Pethadine doesn't mean you have no options when labor gets rough! Consider these safe, natural, drug-free options.
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Part Two-The Ten Steps to being a Mother-Friendly Hospital
To receive CIMS designation as "mother-friendly," a hospital, birth center, or home birth service must carry out our philosophical principles by fulfilling the Ten Steps of Mother-Friendly Care. Read more about what it takes to become "mother friendly".
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Partners and Pregnancy
Many partners don't feel prepared for their baby's birth, especially if it's a first baby. Talk to other parents, your pregnant partner, or a health care professional. You'll find out you're not alone!
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Pregnancy in Ancient India
How did the Ancient Indians keep their women safe during the perilous months of pregnancy and after childbirth?
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Pregnancy Week by Week - Week 20
As you enter Week 20 of pregnancy, your baby's legs lengthen and early breathing movements can be detected. What can you be doing to prepare for labor?
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Pregnancy Week by Week - Week 29
Week 29 of pregnancy is a time when the baby begins to develop more fat layers. Your baby weighs about 2 and a half pounds this week!
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Pregnancy Week by Week - Week 37
As you move into your last 4 weeks of pregnancy, your baby will be able to make various head movements and now has a definite sleep-wake cycle.
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Preparing For Pregnancy: Doctor Or Midwife?
Now is the time to decide who will be your healthcare provider during pregnancy. You will want to visit with this person prior to pregnancy to determine if they will support the kind of pregnancy and birth experience you desire. Even if you choose a midwife, you need to have an OB in mind in case of complications that sometimes arise during pregnancy.
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Recognizing and curing vaginal yeast infections
Many pregnant women experience vaginal yeast infections. Learn how to recognize and treat them with time tested cures.
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Recovery Tips for New Mothers
After you give birth, the work may be just starting. Adequate rest, nutrition, exercise and support are crucial.
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St. Gerard-Patron Saint of Expectant Mothers
The birth story of a Catholic woman, who relied on her own strength and faith in God to guide the labor and birth of her second child.
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Varicose Veins During Pregnancy
In pregnancy, varicose veins are painful and they make your legs feel tired. Here's what you can do to help reduce the discomfort caused by varicose veins.
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What Does Natural Labor and Delivery Feel Like?
Whether to get an epidural during labor and delivery is one question on most pregnant women's minds. Here's birth information that can help with the choice.
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All About Labor
From stages of labor, to signs of labor and even when to go to the hospital, here is the complete series of articles on labor and childbirth.
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When to Go to the Hospital
Parents should consider the number of previous births, travel distance required as well as their health status in deciding when to go to their place of birth.
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The Birth Partner: Labor Support
Many husbands, partners or labor support people wonder how to help a laboring woman cope with childbirth. Here is a guidebook for anyone.
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Definite Signs of Labor
There are primarily two definite signs that labor is coming. One is progressing contractions and the other is the mother's bag of water breaking.
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Benefits of Massage During Labor
Using massage to comfort a mother during her labor has been proven to help in many ways. See the benefits of touch for a birthing woman.
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Director Jason Reitman's Juno
This Oscar-winning screenplay features an offbeat character in a funny and poignant story of an unwanted pregnancy.
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Using Massage During Labor
Massage can be very beneficial for women in labor but there are some tips and suggestions a birth partner should keep in mind in order to help during childbirth.
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Birth of a CyberNation: Good pregnancy links

Birth of a CyberNation: Good pregnancy links

Possible Signs of Labor
There are several possible that labor may be on its way including more frequent Braxton-Hicks contractions as well as more back pain. How do you know if labor is coming?
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Pregnancy Week by Week - Week 40
If you are in your 40th week of pregnancy, you may be experiencing preliminary signs of labor such as a lingering backache and frequent Braxton-Hicks contractions.
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Top Reasons to Hire a Doula
Several reasons parents hire birth doulas today include a desire for more support during pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
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Belly Dance to Better Health
Celebrating the natural beauty of the female form, belly dancing is beneficial to both the dancer's mental as well as her physical well-being.
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Common Misconceptions about the Alexander Technqiue
People who have heard about the Alexander Technique sometimes have serious misconceptions about what it is. This article explores several of the most common of these.
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How Children Develop Harmful Posture and Movement Habits
Ways in which we acquire harmful habits of posture and movement are explored.
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How to Do Kegel Exercises
Strong PC muscles are vital for a healthy urinary system. This article explains how to exercise them, manual vs pelvic exercisers, and how they can improve your orgasms.
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Pregnancy Week by Week - Week 30
As you progress into your pregnancy, your baby continues to develop more fat stores and has a more rounded appearance. Her sense of taste has developed.
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Mothers, the Most Important Women
A celebration of the most important women in our lives, our mothers.
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Sterile Water Injections for Low Back Pain in Labor
Sterile water injections are a relatively new non-pharmacological procedure for helping relieve the low back pain sometimes experienced during labor.
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Good posture: the spine
Learn how the position of your spine affects your health.
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Massage for the Expectant Mother
Massage for pregnancy and labor.
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The Emotional Life of New Mothers
The Emotional Life of New Mothers
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World Breastfeeding Month: Educating Your Community
How to help your medical professionals become more involved in breastfeeding awareness and education in your community.

Ancient Shinto Shrines
What were the shrines that the Japanese people erected to support their animist Shinto beliefs in the ancient past?
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Chinese Herbal Medical Terminology
When visiting a Traditional Chinese Herbalist a patient may be bombarded with new and confusing words. This article explains some of the most commonly used TCM terms.
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Chinese Medicine Helps Menopause
Insomnia, night sweats, hot flashes, depression and other symptoms of menopause are eased without Hormone Replacement Therapy's side effects. TCM provides an alternative.
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Cluster Or Sinus
The pain of a cluster headache has been described as far worse than childbirth.
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