I had my very first TRAIN FOR BIRTH workshop this month! I had 3 expecting mommas with their support person close by. We did 2.5 hours of education, movement, labor position, birthing positions, mental birth zone training, stretching and question answering. These mommas TRAINED!! They are all have the GOAL of an all natural birth
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Train for Birth
TRAIN: If someone trains you to do something, they teach you the skills that you need in order to do it. If you train to do something, you learn the skills that you need in order to do it. -Collins Dictionary To prepare someone or be prepared for a job, activity or sport by learning
Doula the Soccer Player
Photo Credit: RendonPhoto My doula the volleyball player has turned into doula the soccer player all in the same season. Last year the high school soccer coach attended one of my daughter’s volleyball games. The next day he stopped her in the hallway at school and asked her to come be his goalie. He wanted
Birthing In The Zone
6 out of my 8 Doula clients in 2016, birthed their babies nothing but natural. Each birthing mom found her birth zone to achieve her desired natural birth. As her Doula, I helped her get into her birth zone and helped her maintain it to bring her baby to her arms. Watching her find her
Water Birth
I had my first water birth experience this weekend as a Doula. I was completely blown away by the wonderful effects the water had on the birthing experience. The water was pure comfort for the birthing mom and provided relaxing environment in between contractions. Watching the baby be born from a warm cozy in utero