Sentences with phrase «empowered as birth parents»

They may feel empowered as birth parents, because the decision they made helped give their child a good life.

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With Tina's experience in consulting, Evidence Based Birth ®, as well as birth and postpartum doula care, she's able to holistically guide expecting parents towards educated and empowering decisions for their prenatal, birth and postpartum experieBirth ®, as well as birth and postpartum doula care, she's able to holistically guide expecting parents towards educated and empowering decisions for their prenatal, birth and postpartum experiebirth and postpartum doula care, she's able to holistically guide expecting parents towards educated and empowering decisions for their prenatal, birth and postpartum experiebirth and postpartum experiences.

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.

Parents of two children, they bring their personal experience of childbirth, as well as countless births Juliette has worked at as a D.O.N.A. certified doula to this workshop, developing a variety of touch support techniques, breathing and physical postures to help ease the laboring mom and empower the partner through labor.

Open adoption as a process empowers birth parents, children and adoptive parents to know each other's stories, to ask of each other the big questions, and to foster lifelong connections that lead to a sense of security and belonging.