My first birth was an unavoidable emergency cesarean section. For my second birth I was determined to do things my way. This meant a midwives assisted homebirth. This meant spending my labour baking a cake with my oldest daughter. This meant following my birth plan. My second birth went very well. I had the homebirth [...]
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The following post by Ruth Moss is #4 in my series on Mental Health and Breastfeeding. The other posts can be found here, here and here. Ruth was one of the first breastfeeding moms I made friends with on Twitter. Her talent for writing can be enjoyed all over the internet. For a list of [...]
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I know I said I would be posting about my fundraising efforts for La Leche League today, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I am unable to do so at this time. Instead, I hope you will find this an educational and enjoyable read. The use of pain relieving medication during pregnancy and labor has been [...]
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Newborn babies who are laid on their mother’s bare tummies and left to their own devices after a natural childbirth can innately find their mother’s breast and latch on. This process is called “self-attachment” and was researched and documented on a video called “Delivery Self Attachment,” by a team of Swedish scientists in the 1990′s. [...]
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