Educate

Read about home birth, free birth, orgasmic birth, water birth, and unassisted childbirth. Read inspiring childbirth stories.

 

Question

Question common beliefs.

Is pushing necessary?

What if screaming is just a waste of energy?

 

 

Realize

Childbirth is just the beginning of an amazing journey. It does not matter much if your child is born at home or in the hospital. It is just one day out of the next 18 years of your child's life, in which you will influence and create a relationship with your child. There is no pressure on you. You are not performing. This is not the moment to please anybody or follow somebody's advice. There is no right or wrong. You are not being judged. Childbirth is all about following your own instinct and pleasing yourself. All those people around you have their own chances, but this one is just yours. You are in control.

 

Your body was created perfectly and with its own knowledge. It knows how to give birth just as it knows how to sneeze or eliminate waste.

 

Visualize

Meditate about your empowering dream childbirth. Think about how your birth will look like. Create a positive picture in your mind. What will you do in the first stage of labor? Sleep, walk, swim, clean your home, go shopping? What about the second stage? Are you in a quiet darkened room concentrating? Are you in the bathtub? Who is there with you? What is the atmosphere in the room? What does it smell like? What do you hear?

In the visualization be clear about the details during your childbirth. Tell the universe or the Higher Power what you desire and expect to receive an even better experience. Feel the excitement and the joy.

 

Do this exercise once a day or as often as you wish.

 

Journal

Write down your "wish" childbirth. You can include more details as you meditate more. Imagine how fascinating it will be for your baby to read it before she will give birth to her own baby.

 

 

 

Informative Resources

http://www.sarahjbuckley.com/articles/ecstatic-birth.html

 

4 hormones involved in childbirth

oxytocin = love

- uterine contractions, foreplay, and orgasm

endorphins = pleasure and transcendence

-analgesic

adrenaline/noradrenaline = excitement

very strong contractions

prolactin = mothering

- breastmilk, submission

 

www.artofbirth.com/dissertation.html

 

http://www.birthkeeper.com/

 

Complications:  www.purebirth-australia.com

Emergency Childbirth by Dr. Gregory White

 

Reflexology Comb: http://www.mcreflexology.com/tools/reflex_comb.html

 

PAIN RELIEF

http://pregnancychildbirth.suite101.com/article.cfm/pain_relief_techniques_for_labor

 

the sexuality of pregnancy & birth

http://www.elizabethdavis.com/spb.html

 

- Making love during first stage labor

- let go, relax, privacy

- close eyes, full concentration during crowning

 

OrgasmicBirth.com

- the great yes!

 

Tests

Gestational Diabetes 24 weeks

Urinalysis strips

GBS screen

chlamydia

 

Exotic Baby Names

Leilani

Liani

Mali

Sarafina

Malvina

Niels

 

Mommy - the most beautiful word in the world

Your yummy milk warms my little body

Your smell calms me down

Your heartbeat creates rhythm in my life

Your voice sounds like music 

Your warmth warms me

Your arms protect me

Your breath reminds me to breathe

Mommy - you are all I need

You are the only thing I long for

I do not need toys made in China

I do not care for expensive gadgets

I do not need anything except YOU

I long for your milk, your heartbeat, your voice, your warmth, your arms, and your breath.

I want you to surround me and nurture me.

Please, do not put me in the crib-prison

I do not want to be behind bars

I need you - Mommy.

by 5 months old Toby

I was planning a Free Birth (unassisted birth). Reading all the useful information online gave me confidence in myself. In the last months of my pregnancy I started seeing a midwife partly because my family did not support the idea of Free Birth and partly because the midwife gave me a great deal on her fee. My plan was to have a water birth, to keep the umbilical cord attached as in Lotus Birth, to suck out the mucus with my mouth, and in case of excessive bleeding to eat the afterbirth or at least take a bite. I watched my diet drinking green smoothies, eating fruit on an empty stomach by itself for breakfast, eating soaked pumpkin and sunflower seeds, and drinking sesame milk for extra calcium, iron, and essential fatty acids.

Homebirth in the privacy of your own home

a great book: Ina May's guide to childbirth by Ina May Gaskin

Ina May's site: http://www.inamay.com/index.php

http://www.birthintobeing.com

On the 22^nd of February my mom called to let me know that I had to have the baby on the coming weekend otherwise she would not be able to come, since she could only take off from work the next two weeks but not later. Even though, I was enjoying being pregnant and did not want the baby to come out yet, I started cleaning the house including the windows to induce the nestling instinct. After I was done, my husband and I went for a seven-mile bike ride. On the next morning, three days before due date, contractions woke me up, which I tried to ignore and continued sleeping. At 6:30 am I was not able to sleep any longer. The childbirth educator taught us to “go on with your life” during early labor. So I went to class at the college without telling my husband who was still asleep.