Ashgrove HypnoBirthing Course with Patricia Cumming.
Dates: June 11 - July 9
Time: 10am – 12:30pm
Venue: The Avenue Chiropractic Clinic, 81 Stewart Rd, Ashgrove
To book email: patriciamcumming@gmail.com
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Nundah HypnoBirthing Course with Carla Morgan
Dates: 7 May - 4 Jun
Time: 1.30pm – 4pm
Venue: Osteocare, 1359 Sandgate Rd (Cnr of Eton St), Nundah,
To book email: birthbabyhub@gmail.com
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Pregnant? Stressed? Science says Talk to Your Baby
by Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal
I was a first time mother-to-be, nearing 40. I’d already had two miscarriages and I wasn’t getting any younger and I could go on and on about the reasons that I was stressed. It didn’t help that I was banned from a nice glass of chilled, white wine at night. And most foods that used to delight me, didn’t. Meanwhile, I was traveling a lot for my documentary, called In Utero, about the environmental impact on pregnancy. I was one of those women who believed I could do...
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Advantages of Endorphins during Pregnancy, Labour and Childbirth
Everyday tensions and stresses cause an array of physical and chemical reactions within us that can have negative effects on our health if not managed well. Such tensions can be heightened during pregnancy, and as labour approaches, if fear and concern are added to the mix, these bodily effects become more toxic, swirling through the mother’s system to be absorbed by the babe in her womb.
If that is not reason enough to understand how to prevent this process during pregnancy, there is another...
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The Mile’s Circuit – a simple positioning tool
The Mile’s Circuit is named after Megan Miles, a Birth and Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator and Student of Midwifery. The circuit is a simple set of positions used to achieve optimal positioning either before or during labour. Optimal positioning is considered to be the LOA position (Left Occiput Anterior) as this position facilitates a smooth entry into the pelvic outlet and descent for the baby.
The Mile’s Circuit has been used prenatally to rotate a baby from posterior to anterior pos...
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Breech Birth Choices
Breech Choices by Sarah Buckley
(from Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering, 2005) www.sarahjbuckley.com
In 2002, a pregnant woman in Brisbane, Australia – a mother of three, including naturally born twins – was refused the option of a vaginal breech birth in hospital, and told she could only have her baby by caesarean. She sought a midwife to assist her and gave birth successfully at home. Her picture – glowing with new motherhood, holding her healthy, happy baby – appeared in the Brisbane Courier...
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4 interesting things about your cervix ..
Credit - from an article on www.birthologie.com
Most women have no clue what their cervix is, where it is, its function or even what it looks like.
So here are some important useful things for you to know about yours
Childbirth 101: The cervix is supposed to thin and then dilate (open) from 0 to 10cm open during labor. Once at 10cm a women is then considered to be 'fully dilated' and can push her baby out into the world. Simple as that (or so we are told).
There are however a ...
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Review of Birth Reborn by Michel Odent
by Bree Taylor Molyneaux
I was already a fan of Michel Odent from the many birth videos I have seen him featured on and skim reading this book many years ago.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading his book in its entirety, finding it provides a very holistic picture of how Odent came to be the expert on natural birth that he is regarded today and provides a realistic argument for everything that he does – why minimal intervention is used, how the environment of birth is created and supported and mo...
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The beautiful, positive birth of Nate – Jan 2013
I have always wanted to be a mom and I always thought I would enjoy being pregnant; it was going from point A to B that terrified me. I started researching how I was going to overcome my fear even before my husband and I became pregnant. My research kept leading me back to HypnoBirthing, the principles resonated with me and I knew this was how I was going to achieve my goal of having a natural and calm birth. I came across a HypnoBirthing website months before we were expecting and bookmarked it...
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Natural childbirth: Challenges & solutions in the 21st century
by Bree Taylor Molyneaux
Queensland (and Australia) now has the highest caesarean rate in our history; 47.9% in Private Hospitals and 34% in Public Hospitals[1], so the importance of supporting and educating women in birth choices becomes increasingly necessary.
As an independent birth educator I hear a vast range of birth stories which make me both cry with joy and shed tears of sadness and frustration. Birth is supposed to be a joyful event, a rite of passage that marks the transition f...
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