Sentences with phrase «on childbirth really»

Just talking to the midwives and hearing how intelligent they were and competent on childbirth really helped him feel confident about using a birth center and midwifery care.

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I've never seen someone tell another mother that if she really loved her baby, she would have a natural childbirth, breastfeed, (insert parenting decision here) in the middle of the grocery store, but I have seen it happen on - line repeatedly.

It wasn't until I participated in an online webinar through GOLD Learning's Online Symposium on Childbirth Education with Penny Simkin, entitled, «The Tipping Point (s) in Childbirth Education & the Consequences of Ignorance,» that I really understood how these changes were affecting my practice as a birth worker and impacting the experiences of the clients I served.

However, from the Empathy Belly website we read, «As a childbirth educator, I believe that such a hands - on experience will definitely help men to better recognize what their pregnant wives are really going through, and to become more considerate towards them.

I learned so much it was ridiculous, from ways to soothe the baby to what to expect at childbirth, including what the baby really will look like — the «newborn baby» you see on TV is likely a 3 - month - old because a bluish, sticky baby isn't as cute.

It's a pain for sure, but a small price to pay if you're set on nursing — and really NBD compared to childbirth, trust.

We read two books, one book called «Unassisted Childbirth» by Laura Shamley which she kind of like guru on the topic, and then there is another book called «Emergency Childbirth», just forgot the author but, it's really short, it's like what they give paramedics learn about delivering a baby you know and this thing like when things go wrong and what to do.

They figure that childbirth education isn't really useful when you can read lots of great books and learn anything you want to on the Internet.

The whole concept of pain in childbirth is so mishandled that many women today falsely believe based on their own (or others») bad experience that there is no way to manage labor so that pain is really nothing more than stretching, discomfort, or hard work.

Which is really too bad because we have an urgent problem in America: our maternal mortality rate is among THE HIGHEST in the industrialized world (depending on the index you look at), our infant mortality rates are unacceptable, the inequalities in the way women of color and poor women are treated is literally a human right crisis, our new moms suffer from postpartum depression mores than so many other countries, and in many ways we have taken the joy and awe out of childbirth and infancy.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

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