Sentences with phrase «read about your birth experience»

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All in all, I wish I spent less time in my early pregnancy watching YouTube videos and reading blogs and worring about fighting with the hospital and doctor, and more time doing what I'm doing now: talking to people who actually live where I do and have given birth at my hospital, who had positive experiences.

If moms take some time to learn about their choices and take an Independent Childbirth Class (not hospital based) or read GOOD books (not WTEWE) then they will be in a better position to have a positive birth experience which can empower them!

Safety Concerns, Pain Management and Supplies To keep your birth experience as safe as possible, «I highly recommend reading books about physiological birth and preparing your space and practicing any relaxation techniques,» suggests Moser.

Or head over to our main Birth Stories Section to read about other types of birthing experiences...

-LSB-...] has a story (that I'm too squeamish to read) about her birth experiences.

So, read on to learn more about the first pediatrician visits baby will experience from birth until they're 3 months old:

Prior to my son's birth, I had started reading up about breastfeeding and participated in several online breastfeeding support groups to learn from the experiences of other mothers.

Or head over to the main Birth Stories Section to read about other types of birthing experiences...

Both were great, hard but wonderful, and I found that reading a lot about labour and birth (both physiological and stories) helped me to realise that I could influence my experience hugely just by the attitude that I cultivated as pregnancy progressed and the mental «tools» I used during labour.

Yet time and time again I have read and written about homebirth loss mothers praising deadly midwives, praising the «experience» of a vaginal birth of a dead child, refusing to cooperate in disciplining the midwife responsible, advocating for more «freedom» for homebirth midwives, and, most grotesque of all, choosing to risk their next child's life by having a homebirth.

Our own Jennifer Lance has a story (that I'm too squeamish to read) about her birth experiences.

It's almost never too late to switch to a new birth attendant; see the Parenting Squad article Prenatal Care and Doctor Wars: Standing Up For Yourself And Your Child to read about one mom's experience switching doctors at 38 weeks.

You can also talk to others about their experiences (including online in places such as mothering.com); read stories; watch videos, (including Youtube) of home and hospital births; and ideally attend the meeting of a homebirth group.

A great suggestion I can offer up for expectant dads is to, sure, read some books and articles about what to expect, but most importantly, take the time to talk to the wife (or girlfriend or baby mama) about everyone's goals for the birth experience and immediately after.

While I agree that one person can't define what is traumatic for another, it's pretty irritating to read posts from women who had normal, healthy births without permanent damage to themselves or their babies complain about not getting the birth experience they wanted.

I had read about this phenomenon in multiple birth experiences and I knew it could happen to me.

Click here to read about my first birth experience.

Take a class at your local hospital, watch natural birth videos, read books and talk to experienced moms so that you have knowledge to make an informed decision about your birth preferences, including place of birth.

Read about the link between birth control and depression or one women's experience with postpartum depression.

Although textbooks and studies are good resources, I enjoyed reading about other women's birth experiences and the lessons they drew from them.