What
kind of birth does she want to have?
What
kind of birth do you want!
Not exact matches
There's no other country that doesn't require some
kind of birth heritage, or inheritance, or ingrown advantage.
I could see someone that's Catholic and not using
birth control getting stressed out and starting to wonder if this
kind of life truly is required by God or if it truly
does make any sense.
The profound cleavage in every
kind of social group (families, countries, professions, creeds) which during the past century has become manifest in the form
of two increasingly distinct and irreconcilable human types, those who believe in progress and those who
do not — what
does this portend except the separation and
birth of a new stratum in the biosphere?
One
of 11 children himself, Ryan thought that most people practicing
birth control would be
doing it from a «decadent» frame
of mind; that bachelors were not building the
kind of character necessary to contribute to the common good
of society.
Bryan knew that the so - called religious scientists who were insisting on the compatibility
of evolution and the Bible would have surprised many Americans with the extent
of how much
of revelation they
did not believe (such as the Virgin
Birth and the Resurrection), even as they professed a
kind of general religious faith.
The largest study
of its
kind has found that for low - risk women, giving
birth at home is as safe as
doing so in hospital with a midwife.
I think it's fantastic if you
do, but those essays can actually be
kind of damaging to women who are in a fragile emotional state after the
birth of their kids.
And so it's comfortable especially for you know when you are breastfeeding for either a long time year wise, or even a long time session wise it's more comfortable if you know, if you've had a caesarian
birth then the baby's not laying on your stomach or you know you don't have to hold your breast up and try and make sure you're not letting the baby's head fall in and it's a lot
of less juggling when you've got gravity
kind of in your favor.
In its heyday, through the mid-1980s, the
Birth Place
did about 100
births a year, and «became
kind of a focus for social support for pregnant women and new mothers,» he said.
At home, you don't have to fight to get the
kind of birth you want
In a home
birth you usually don't have to go to the hospital (though there's at least a 1 in 10 chance that you will), but you or yours have to buy all
kinds of crap beforehand (birthing pool, pads for protecting your bedsheets from blood...), then clean up after labor, make food and clean up after each meal, talk with the midwife or whoever is attending you (husband??)
Forgetting what it's like to nurse a newborn is
kind of like forgetting what it feels like to give
birth — it's nature's way
of making sure you have more babies, because if you actually remembered it you would never
do it again.
Before I had my first baby, I felt like I had
done a pretty good job preparing, but even I had seemed to put too much focus on just the
birth and
kind of felt like «now what?»
Throughout this site I will be talking about all
kinds of things related to pregnancy,
birth, and parenting practices for which I advocate, that my parents may or may not have
done in the early 70's.
Dr. Nick Capetanakis: The natural cesarean that was video produced last year, I believe it was out
of England which
kind of shows a different way that we can
do a cesarean
birth.
I really couldn't
do any
kind of activities that related to my
birth advocacy or doula, doula - ing.
Her name is Cadence and we
did do a hospital
birth which was an incredible experience at the hospital that I was able to deliver at here in Nashville, Tennessee, and just
kind of figuring everything out, breastfeeding wise, but we're
doing pretty good so far.
HOPE LIEN: We
did stay in the hospital, it was a very small hospital but the staff there was extremely accommodating and they
kind of were able to give us like our own little space and so we were
kind of go back and forth between rooms and the baby would go back and forth between us and then yeah and we would also spend a lot
of time with our
birth mom and it was just it was a really memorable experience for sure.
I know it is
kind of weird that I didn't want my mother in the room but I am a very private person when it comes to giving
birth.
And while
birth center rooms are outfitted with all the essential medical supplies needed for normal
birth, you don't see and hear the same
kinds of large machines and medical equipment you might find in a hospital room.
This book can open conversations about what
kinds of things a child's
birth and adoptive families might be
doing simultaneously.
So, what can you
do to put in place the
kind of birth that will support you and your baby to come into the world as nature intended?
There was a book for women
doing ivf that said something to the effect
of «even though you've worked so hard getting pregnant, now you can go on and have a natural pregnancy»... it was
kind of phrased in a way to make having a natural pregnancy / natural
birth would redeem using ART.
The Lamaze technique puts particular emphasis on natural childbirth, but
does not in any way judge women who opt for medical intervention and / or pain relief (if you want a prenatal class which specifically promotes
birth without medication
of any
kind, try a class taught according to the Bradley Method - you'll find details online).
But it seems a lot
of other women
do, and there is so much pressure put on women to have the «right»
kind of birth — «right» in this instance meaning «vaginal, preferably without pain medication.»
I don't much care what
kind of birth you choose to have, but own it and know you deserve respectful care.
«I
do not care what
kind of birth you have....
If you are going to be in the delivery room, you'll need to know the
birth plan, especially what
kind of atmosphere will make the mother most comfortable, and what she plans to
do about pain relief.
It doesn't matter what
kind of birth you had or how you feed and diaper your baby... we want you to feel at home and make some new friends.
As foster parents people always ask me if we have «contact» with the kids»
birth families, and I always find myself wanting to expand on that discussion — telling you how often we happen to see their
birth families doesn't in any way describe the
kind of relationship we have with them.
These types
of papers were common when water
birth practice was first developing and at the time they were appropriate methods to share practice details —
kind of like reporting an implementation project we would
do today.
Some babies may
do this
kind of poo during or after
birth, or some time in the first 48 hours.
Just like everything else in parenting, you've got to
do what you think is best for you and your family, and not base decisions on pure emotion, but be analytical and reasonable and wise, reading all these reports, from how to give
birth to breastfeeding or not to what
kind of booties to stick on the kid, with a keen eye and sometimes a grain
of salt.
Do you have questions about labor and giving
birth: what
kinds of medications are available; home
birth or hospital
birth; c - sections and all they entail?
What
kinds of medical equipment
did I have, and what
kinds of birth experiences could I support?
They're losing weight and you're all
kind of obsessed about that initial
birth weight and then so to hear like ones to you, like all my babies were born in a hospital, so once I left the hospital, it's
kind of like, well, they weighed less now and I really
did have that 10 % in my head a lot because I didn't want to have to
do formula, and so I just felt like it was, this weird challenge with my body like, can my body create enough colostrum to be able to support this, and what's going to happen over the next couple
of weeks, you know, they going to tell me if this first pediatrician appointment that I've got a supplement.
And then as far as like
birth weight are specifically is concern, they
do like your baby's
birth weight to be back up by two weeks, that's
kind of the standard, and a lot
of pediatricians will inadvertently panic moms where it's like oh, my baby is two week old and they're not back up to
birth weight yet but there's a lot
of circumstances surrounding the baby's
birth that may lead to inflated
birth weight.
It
did set a different tone than the other
births that I have been to, so you really
kind of think about your personality and what really suits you; also you have to think about other people around you might respond to it because if you're playing punk metal and that's what get you in your zone you might be creating an antagonistic environment with your care provider.
Also, after having both
kinds of births, why
do you think that you're choosing to shoot for another epi - free
birth?
Do not hesitate in asking the right questions like the cost involved, the agency's experience, training offered for different types
of adoption, international adopting policy, any
kind of supportive services offered and what type
of counselling is provided to the actual
birth parents
of the child, if the infant is adopted domestically.
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 equally annoying to tell a different
kind of birth attendant that what they
do doesn't matter, just because it's different from what you
do.
There's an investigation and they're making recommendations now on how to make sure this doesn't happen, but it reminded me
of giving
birth here in the U.S., and how... They're very strict about this
kind of stuff.
Women were BUILT to give
birth, OBGYNs are glorified surgeons, oh a BTW what about leaving sponges inside women, and all
kinds if issues that come with surgery, and the fact that a hospital is full
of germs and sick people, where as at home its the same environment moms been in the whole pregnancy... Hospitals smeared midwives when they first started cutting babies out, and they continue to
do it, I wouldn't be surprised if they lied about the stats
However, since CNMs are trained as advanced practice nurses, and are under «doctor supervision» they can «
do» more in terms
of using drugs for pain relief, some
kinds of well - woman care, even in some instances assisting at cesarean
births, depending on the state and the physician they work with / for.
A person is someone who
births a child, raises, loves, cares for you, not
do troubling things, a person who loves you not matter what
kind of mistake you make, she is a mother is the mother:).
I've always wondered how it seems that every
birth has to be with some
kind of medication or it had to happen in a hospital because that's not how Eve
did it and not how most
of our ancestors
did it.
It doesn't have to be The Big Boy (he's
kind of pricey and big for a hospital
birth, but you can use it long after delivery), but you want something that starts off relatively flat and can be positioned in many different ways.