Showing posts with label doula. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doula. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Helping Your Baby Reduce Stress and Relax

“Under conditions of stress many persons go into labored breathing reminiscent of breathing at birth…in fear or anxiety one of the first functions to be affected is breathing.”- Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin by Ashley Montagu  Baby’s response to stress Our body’s natural response is to organize for safety during times of crisis.

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Friday, April 5, 2013

How Belly Wrapping Can Help Your Body Find Its Natural Shape Again

Did you know that a 36 foot long piece of unbleached cotton wound tightly around your body can create such a transformation in your shape? How To Get Your Pre-Baby Body Back With Belly Wrapping The belly wrap will help re-align the rectus abdominis muscles by putting them together towards center thus correcting a diastisis.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Are There Exercises That I Can Do To Prepare For Childbirth?

Going through labor exerts stress on particular muscles and joints. You can practice some exercises to help your body for the demands of labor. The following exercises can help reduce labor time, decrease the risks of medicalinterventions and quicken your postpartum recovery. 1. Kegel exercises have long been prescribed as a method to strengthen pelvic

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Monday, March 25, 2013

How To Handle A Crying Baby

As adults, we don’t often differentiate emotional crying from physical crying because we can have the benefit of words to give voice to our feelings and our needs. Babies don’t have the luxury of language, but they do have a vocabulary of body cues and noises that allow them to express themselves. How Babies Communicate

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

One of the Many Benefits of Infant Massage – BONDING

Each infant comes into this world with a story of their birth that is unique to them, just as the pregnancy and delivery experience is unique for each mother and father. Communicating with the infant through loving touch helps the infant to give voice to their story and deepens the bond between parent and child.

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Can I Lift Weights While Pregnant?

Weight training during pregnancy offers innumerable benefits to the mother and the future baby. It can be quite helpful during pregnancy but one of its important benefits can be realized soon after childbirth. Think of all the lifting you will do with baby. Weight training exercises can serve as a controlled, modified, cardiovascular workout for

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