Sentences with phrase «midwife friends about»

I have asked several of my respected mother and midwife friends about the risks of nighttime nursing to dental health.

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It wasn't until I had given birth to my daughter, officially joined the «mommy club,» and made some mommy friends of my own that I began to hear more and more about midwives and learn about the role that they play in helping women prenatally, during birth and postnatal.

I want to add that my good friend tried for a homebirth about 7 months ago with a midwife.

Reminiscent of our comments in previous editions, most of you found the best advice about breastfeeding came from friends, La Leche League, childbirth educators, midwives, and books.

A friend of mine complained to her midwife about feeling so worried that something would go wrong during her pregnancy.

If you are concerned about any aspect of your pregnancy or childbirth it can really help to chat to other people about it, such as your midwife, obstetrician, gp, friends or family.

After another friend of mine experienced an amazing home birth, I began talking to her more and more about it and she encouraged me to meet with a midwife just to discuss my options.

we hired a service to do it for us and i checked with a friend who is a midwife and does it and it is about the same price in south africa.

In a perfect world, women (and men) would learn about childbirth from reading books and websites and talking to their care provider (doctor or midwife), to a doula, to their mother, aunts and friends, but unless you live under a rock, women (and men) also learn about childbirth when they are bombarded with images on TV and in movies that depict childbirth as something scary, painful and out of control.

When we realized we were about to have an unplanned homebirth because our son was coming so fast, my doula asked if we wanted her to «call 9 -1-1, or call her midwife friend.»

I have been helping women breastfeed their babies for six years, and have been nursing my own children for over eight years, but I am still floored when I hear some of the things women are told about breastfeeding — from their doctors, midwives, friends, grandmothers, Dr. Google, and even other lactation consultants.

Find out about these classes from the hospital where you plan to have your baby, your OB / GYN, midwife, friends and family.

Dörte calls it the «objective gaze [den objektiven Blick]» 17: She can speak to her midwife about difficulties in the relationship to her husband without worrying her midwife «developing an opinion» about her husband as friends or family members would.

My friend is having an issue where her old midwife is telling people about her birth (she used to be my midwife too and that lady really does tell everyone everything about other people's births).

Any midwife is going to be nervous about accompanying their client to the hospital and when they do they have NO rights, their skills and abilities and expertise and knowledge of their patient is completely disregarded (even for CNMs) and they have the same status as a friend of the patient.

Please read my comment elsewhere about my friend that also had an «amazing» doula and midwife.

One of my closest friends raved and raved about a midwife.

Most of this story is from what I directly remember, but there are parts that I was told about afterwards, from my midwife and doula and a friend that was there, filling in the blanks when I was too out of it to fully realize what was going on.

I don't know for certain what other testing my friend received prenatally (I know she didn't get ultrasounds, but I'm unsure about GBS, RH or the like)- but it does sound like her midwife, at least, isn't a total whackadoodle.

Canada About Blog My name is Meghanne Reburn, my friends call me Meg, or Meg the Midwife.