Sentences with phrase «feelings about birth families»

Feelings about birth families, or issues surrounding race and culture may come to the surface.

They're encouraged to tell the child from an early age that they're adopted, and to tell them as much as possible about their birth parents, so that the child has positive feelings about their birth family.

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Christmas touches deep, universal feelings about the miracle of birth and family life.

Others said they felt less anxious about the birth, more confident about bringing up a child or encouraged in thinking about what is important for the baby, as a result of their interaction with the Family Nurse.

She feels incredibly passionate about supporting new families through pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

My 4 year old has just started asking questions about his birth family and I'm treading new waters and feeling cautious.

Many families want the advice and natural birth expertise that Midwives have to offer, and want to take advantage of a wealth of information about herbal, homeopathic and essential oil remedies, but would feel safer birthing in a hospital or birth center setting, or perhaps have a physical condition that does not allow for home birth.

She is passionate about holding the space for families to feel empowered by and in charge of their births, while offering evidence - based care.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

The etiology of PPD is unclear and is varied from woman to woman, but certain factors are suspected to contribute to its development: hormonal fluctuations, any preexisting medical problems, personal or family history of depression, marital dysfunction or general lack of support and social network, immaturity and low self - esteem, negative feelings about the pregnancy, lack of sleep, financial concerns, premature or special needs child, multiple pregnancy, traumatic birth, chronic stress factors, and neurotransmitter deficiencies.

I began to speak to her about her losses, her birth family, her anger and other feelings she had trapped inside.

There hasn't been a lot of education (that I've seen) about the loss birth families feel when a child is adopted.

Celebrities have leveraged social media in a way that makes us love them and feel like a part of the family, so we decided to take some lessons from their posts about the birth.

Research shows that families who feel involved in their birth process as active decision - makers talk about their births as «good ``; families who feel steam - rolled or ignored in the decision - making process report feeling more trauma about their birth experiences.

we had such a wonderful interview two hours talking about our family background, «my birth views and wants, she was such a great listener and I felt immediately at ease, as if she was family and I was at home.

I feel that women and their partners do much better with privacy and intimacy during the birth process and that, my role is to sometimes protect that privacy and intimacy first of all by educating them that that might be really important and to talk about you know the effect both positive and negative about um, support during that time can be or even just letting people know hey, we're in labour, the Facebook kind of thing but you know keep it quiet, keep it down, don't fritter the energy away by drawing other people to it or drawing the expectation that something's happening rather than just letting something evolve... I think guarding the space by keeping the space as calm and quiet and private as possible is key and giving people tools to do that during the prenatal time to deal with over eager family members or friends.

It's made me feel much better about giving birth where friends and family try to do the opposite.

I don't know how other adoptive parents feel about their relationships with their children's birth families, but I feel mom guilt.

These types of documents serve as a protection for birth families, but also serve as a launching point for open, honest discussion between birthparents and adoptive parents about their expectations for the adoption, their level of comfort with contact, and any other issues that feel important to address as they make a plan for their family.

Every birth mom feels differently about future contact with her baby and his or her adoptive family.

I love the way we and our son's birth parents can agree to disagree about things without worrying about hurting each other's feelings or keeping our opinions to ourselves, just like any other family.

In the months leading up to your second child's birth, you may feel guilty about the fact that you will be upsetting the only family dynamic your first child has ever known.

I feel the need to share this with the world, as no one ever really asked me about my labor, since no one in my family or family in law (except for my mother) has any inkling about natural labor and birth.

Regina Sask Canada About Blog Our hope for all our clients is to feel empowered by their birth experience, so they and their new family can get off to the healthiest start possible!

Regina Sask Canada About Blog Our hope for all our clients is to feel empowered by their birth experience, so they and their new family can get off to the healthiest start possible!

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I feel particularly passionate about working with individuals and families surrounding traumatic birth, pregnancy loss (miscarriage, medical termination, elective termination), traumatic grief, infant death, postpartum anxiety, and the transition to parenthood.