Community of expecting mothers learning about natural birthing
Stephanie Banguilan, HCHI (Doula in Training)
(678) 852-7307
hugsarehealthy@yahoo.com
www.gentlejourneysbirthing.com
Northeast Atlanta, GA and surrounding areas
Certified Hypnobabies Childbirth Hypnosis Instructor
I am a certified Hypnobabies Instructor and Doula in Training and very passionate about educating women and their partners about all things baby related. I began my journey in earnest about 3 years ago after I conceived my son. While [...]
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MIAMI BEACH (MedPage Today) -- Pregnant women with psoriasis had a significantly increased risk of poor outcomes, including spontaneous abortion, preterm birth, preeclampsia, placenta previa, and ectopic pregnancy, data from a retrospective chart review showed.
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Vaginal birth okay for women who have had Cesarean section Food Consumer Currently, doctors don't allow women who have had a caesarean section to give vaginal birth fearing that a natural birth would lead to uterine rupture ... |
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just sharing a funny email meme I got in my inbox today... very funny because it's so true! BIRTH ORDER OF CHILDREN1st baby: You begin wearing maternity clothes as soon as your OB/GYN confirms your pregnancy. 2nd baby: You wear your regular clothes for as long as possible. 3rd baby: Your maternity clothes ARE your regular clothes._____________________________________________________ Preparing
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When you see a natural childbirth video for the first time, you are looking back into the natural history of mankind.
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I have been interested in different energy healing techniques since I first experienced one about 3 years ago. It helped me let go of my guilt surrounding Devon’s birth. I researched different things and have tried EFT on my own and my chiro does some energy releasing things as well. I feel that has really [...]
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"Deadly Delivery, The Maternal Health Care Crisis in the USA," was just released by Amnesty International. Did you know that more than two women die every day in the USA from pregnancy-related causes? Read this report to find out the...
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The recalled Infantino Sling Rider
I love Gorgeous Baby slings - they are one of our sponsors on the sidebar! They have some great pouch sling wearing instructions and videos on their website too.
Baby should be close enough to kiss.
Baby should never have his chin resting on his chest.
Baby's head should be above the rest of her body.
Baby's knees should be higher than his butt.
Baby's face shouldn't be covered by fabric.
Baby's head should be supported.
Baby should never have his chin resting on his chest.
Baby's head should be above the rest of her body.
Baby's knees should be higher than his butt.
Baby's face shouldn't be covered by fabric.
Baby's head should be supported.
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I recently came across a fantastic bra website for pregnant and breastfeeding moms. We all know that being fitted properly for bras is important, but quite often we end up purchasing one that is too big, too small, gaps after a few weeks...Check out the site: Best Custom Fitted Bras, and make sure you've got it goin' on (properly!)
Custom Fitted Bras originally appeared on About.com Breastfeeding on Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at 20:31:50.
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AP - Eleven days after her son Benjamin's birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot.
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Women comprise more than half the population of the nation's cities, are three times as likely as their male counterparts to live alone after the age of 65, and are primary caregivers for their families at all ages and stages of life...
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Let's just say that being constipated can be one of the lesser known and least comfortable pregnancy symptoms. Changes in your hormones can alter your digestive system and cause constipation, in frequent, hard bowel movements, which in turn can lead to hemorrhoids, varicose veins of the rectum. The good news is that with some dietary changes like extra fiber and water and sometimes even medication you can hopefully prevent or at least treat these two complications.
Constipation and Hemorrhoids in Pregnancy originally appeared on About.com Pregnancy & Childbirth on Saturday, March 13th, 2010 at 09:48:39.
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AP - Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."
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Another great Canadian company to love ♥
Toronto-based company Pi'lo makes the most delightful mobiles, and I am in love with this birds and nest for a gender neutral nursery.
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Our second son, Harvey “Boone” was born on August 22, weighing in at 10lbs and measuring 24″, a beautiful healthy boy born at home in the water. I’ve not posted often, but have enjoyed all the birth stories and practiced hypnobabies semi-faithfully (listened to tracks according to schedule, did all the reading, but was pretty [...]
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Five great ways to bond with your baby
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But thought you'd enjoy this update. Legendary New York restaurant critic, Gael Greene, tastes and reports on Breast Milk Cheese...
Never Thought I'd Get So Much Mileage Out of Cheese... originally appeared on About.com Breastfeeding on Friday, March 12th, 2010 at 16:15:40.
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Vitamins are best absorbed from their natural sources: food! One of the most important vitamins a pregnant woman needs is folic acid. The American Pregnancy Association recommends that all women of childbearing age get about 400 micrograms of folic acid every day.
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Need advice on which prenatal tests are right for you or what to pack in labor? Interested in learning how to tell if you are in labor? Maybe you'd like to know when and how an epidural is given. Here are some free online classes in pregnancy and birth, breastfeeding and pregnancy advice. Sign up today, classes start daily!
- First Trimester Guide
- Second Trimester Guide
- Third Trimester Guide
- Online Childbirth Class
- Baby Care Basics
- Baby Shower Planning Guide
- Breastfeeding Class Online
- Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Guide
- Cesarean Section Guide
- Pregnancy Tips Daily
Free Online Pregnancy eCourses originally appeared on About.com Pregnancy & Childbirth on Monday, March 15th, 2010 at 09:14:09.
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Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) scientists have identified a new link between strong period pain experienced in adolescence and early adulthood and the risk of endometriosis. Researchers from QIMR's Gynaecological Cancer Laboratory have found having strong period pain often at an early age doubles a woman's risk of developing endometriosis...
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Simply seeing the letter “A” before an exam might help you improve your grade, but spotting an “F” could make you perform poorly.
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I have this friend. I've written about her before, I know. T. is many, many things I cherish in a friend: generous, dependable, clever, capable, responsive, and funny — my God, so funny. She had her kids at the same...
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The 109th day of school starts out sweetly enough. The first one awake, I lean on my kids’ doorjamb and stare at them sleeping, six-year-old E’s fists splayed out over her head, ... More
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There's a key to this whole beginning part that I think I've been missing. Or at least lacking.
Patience.
I don't have a lot of it. I never have. I'm an instant gratification sort of girl.
The hardest parts of my parenting day come at the very beginning and the very end of the day, when my patience is at its thinnest. In between, there's very little crying or mommy breakdowns. I feed her when she's hungry, play with her when she's awake, change her when she's wet, and put her down when she's sleepy. It's really not much more complicated than that.
First thing in the morning, though, I'm usually half-asleep. And since I've been sleeping until I hear her crying to eat, she's already hungry. So I have to listen to her crying for a good five to ten minutes while I make a bottle, warm the bottle, change her diaper, and try to slap myself out of exhaustion. (I know, especially by now, that crying is all she can do. I still haven't gotten used to the sound, though. I'm still not inured to it. It still makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong. I thought that would've gone away by now.) By the time the bottle gets to her mouth she's frustrated and gulps it down. Which means she usually spits up midway through, and an hour later, once she's been fed and burped and calmed, I invariably have formula all over my shirt, my hair.
The hardest part is at night, right before bed. I always get nervous around eight, anticipating what this bedtime ritual will include. And the harder I try to figure out a solution, the more we struggle.
At night, I'm tired. I'm ready for a break. So I probably don't burp her long enough; I'm anxious to get her quiet and in the crib. And rushing makes it worse--if you put her down too soon, before all the air is out of her little, confused tummy or before she's had a chance to really get sleepy, she's crying again in five minutes. That's when Jason and I start to scramble, trying to figure out what's missing. Is she still hungry? Does she need to burp again? Are you going to go warm another bottle or should I? Can I go lie down? Are you sure you don't mind if I go lie down?
Every night, it's the same struggle.
On the nights that I go to bed early and Jason finishes the last feeding by himself, everything seems to run more smoothly. I've said it to Jason and to myself countless times but I feel like he's just so much more patient than me. He always take a lot longer at nighttime, feeding her, rocking her, comforting her. When we do it together, I get stressed because I'm tired. I try to follow a routine I've concocted in my head rather than what she's demanding because I'm so anxious for it to work.
I don't know how it is that you learn patience. I listen to Adelyn wailing for a bottle, and I want to teach her that the bottle is coming, to just hold on. But I'm smart enough to know that I'm the one that has to teach it to her--every survival mechanism she was born with is telling her to wail for that food and to wail louder the longer it takes to get there.
In most ways it's getting so much easier by the day, this whole parenting thing. As she stays awake longer during the day, though, there's more pressure to move beyond the eat, sleep, poop equation, to start teaching her things when her eyes are open. To establish rituals that let her know the bottle is coming, that it's time to play and time to sleep.
The more I try to follow advice (from my doctor, from stupid books and parents who have been there before), the more stressed I get. When Jason puts her to bed, he just does it.
I'm impatient. Anxious for the day I can rationalize with her, to tell her that a warm bottle takes just a little longer than a cold one.
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by Anne Champion
SMALL WRECKAGE
I.
The women stood at the door
with their rosaries, thrusting
the tiny beads into my hand.
I had been told to have my music on,
or maybe wear a hat, look down,
pay them no mind.
But I took them, repeating
quietly Dickinson’s lines
that had run through
my head all morning:
Shame need not crouch
In a world such as ours.
Shame-stand erect!-
The [...]
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The anti-clotting drug Plavix will get a new "black box" label warning that normal doses don't work for 2% to 14% of patients.
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What do human trafficking, “The Lovely Bones,” and school cafeterias have in common? In varying degrees, they all involve a bit of child abuse.
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Accidents involving all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) have caused “alarming” increases in childhood injuries, often very serious ones, new studies indicate.
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3500 20- to 24-year-old women from Tromsø and Hamar in Norway were offered free hormonal contraception for a year. The result was that the abortion rate in the trial cities was halved...
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UVA Signs Research Collaboration With Merck & Co., Inc To Discover Women's Reproductive Health Drugs
The University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville announced that it has entered into a research collaboration with Merck (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) to discover novel drugs for women's reproductive health...
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AP - Eleven days after her son Benjamin's birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot.
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Mothers of the world...relax The Herald Now many women feel as if they have failed if they did not have that natural birth of their dreams or had a caesarean. Breast may be best but that doesn't ... |
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Cancer is not quite the killer it was 20 years ago. The American Cancer Society found that "age-standardized" cancer deaths among men declined by 21% from 1990, while the rate among women declined by 12% from 1991 to 2006.
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During a conference in London Thursday, development officials urged world leaders to "accelerate efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and [said] rich countries must make good on promises to boost aid to poorer nations," Reuters AlertNet reports...
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A Canadian study suggests that SSRI antidepressants raise the risk of cataracts by about 15% -- enough to cause 22,000 extra U.S. cataract cases per year.
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Anyone living in Middle Tennessee can attest to how amazing today was. Because we've been through a lot of gray this past few months. It's been freakishly cold, incessantly snowy. And we have no room to complain, probably. So many people have it worse weather-wise.
But today, finally, the sun came out (and stayed out!). I can walk to the Greenway, our city's walking trail, from my backyard, and I was joined by countless other Murfreesborians today, itching to get out of their hibernations.
The weather has made this already isolating first few months even worse. When you wake up and open the blinds on your tenth day of being stuck indoors with an unpredictable newborn and the only light that comes through is murky and sad, you feel the same.
We walked two miles today with Jason's mom. That's the most movement I've done in about ten months, thanks to the planet that was my belly. My legs are sore, my feet are sore. I desperately need a shower but Adelyn is still awake and in a good mood, so it'll have to wait.
It's amazing what some sunshine can do for your mood. Nothing's really changed in my life throughout the past week to put me in such a significantly better mood, except for the sunshine. I was still woken up by a screaming baby alarm clock at five this morning, and I almost threw in the towel on leaving the house at all, ever, after the obstacle course that was my six-week doctor's appointment this morning. It was my first time getting out of the house with Adelyn by myself, with the stroller, all the way to Nashville. My appointment was at 11. It takes about 45 minutes to get to Nashville from Murfreesboro. At 10, I was still feeding Adelyn; she had a dirty diaper; I was still in my pajamas with a two-day old ponytail. I hadn't had a chance to eat breakfast, or even pee.
A few rounds of tears later (hers and mine), we miraculously made it out the door. And we were only 20 minutes late--thankfully to an appointment with a doctor surely used to the new-mother scramble.
There's just so much crap that comes along with a newborn. And not breastfeeding makes it worse, since I can no longer whip out my boob at a moment's notice to ease her cries. Bottles have to be cleaned and made and warmed and strollers have to be folded and unfolded and carried. And I know it won't really get any easier, I'll just eventually get used to the schlep.
But then we spent the rest of the day outside, and that made it all a little better.
And after her Janu pulled her out of the stroller so she could see the day for herself:
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Pregnant women aren't getting the nutrition they need, an Australian study has found.
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Alaska health officials have reported that the state's gonorrhea rates increased by 69% in 2009 after remaining steady for years, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Susan Jones of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services said the increase is the biggest one-year jump since the 1970s...
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Commuting on two wheels is healthy, good for the environment, and a cheap alternative to fueling up your car or buying a train ticket every day. Plus, Google’s Bike Maps make it ... More
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How to avoid a C-section in South Florida MiamiHerald.com Through a friend, I found wonderful doctors committed to natural childbirth. The catch: Their practice is so popular that I often sat three hours in the ... |
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The following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries...
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Full disclosure: Blisstree borrowed this piece from TheGloss, our delightfully saucy sister site that just launched this week. (No, really, they said we could!) TheGloss covers fashion, beauty, culture, career, and sex ... More
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“Are canned foods good for you?” is what the guys over at AskMen.com wonder. But dudes aren’t the only ones eating canned chili. In a pinch for time or money, cooking with ... More
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Are you familiar with our PCOS message boards? Now up and running, it's a great place to meet other women with PCOS, get support from somebody who understands what you're going through, and get your burning questions answered. So come on in and introduce yourself!
Message Boards originally appeared on About.com PCOS on Friday, March 12th, 2010 at 21:27:59.
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AFP - Couples who use acupuncture and Chinese medicine to try and increase their chances of having a baby were warned there was no evidence it worked by British fertility experts Wednesday.
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The following summarizes selected women's health-related videos. Uncertainty Surrounds 'Stupak Dozen': On Wednesday, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow challenged Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) claim that he has about twelve lawmakers who will vote against the Senate health reform bill if it doesn't include more restrictions on abortion coverage...
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I think I bragged a little too much about our incredible sleeping baby. Adelyn spent the last week sleeping in consistent six, sometimes seven and a half hour stretches, and I let this fact be known. To everyone. People who asked and people who could care less.
Sleeping through the night is like the newborn holy grail. There are those women, the ones on BabyCenter or whatever forum, who just casually say, "Oh, she's just such a good sleeper. It just happened naturally." And when you've been up since three in the morning and have formula powder all over your pajama pants--the same ones you've been wearing for three days straight--or two huge wet spots on your shirt where your milk is leaking and you forgot to put in new breast pads, you want to take those women by the shoulders and shake them until that smug grin or emoticon wipes off their faces. Maybe this is just the sleep deprivation talking. But that's what I want to do to myself, two days ago, back when I thought I just might've figured the nighttime riddle out early.
We put her in her nursery for the first time on Saturday. I didn't think I'd be ready to put her in her own room this soon, but I realized I was barely sleeping, even when I was, since I could hear every one of her little grunts and snores. And her nursery is just steps away from our bedroom.
The first night we had her home, and I was in the depths of a sleep deprivation I hope I'll never find myself in again, we laid her in the Pack 'N Play and nervously tried to shut our eyes. I really couldn't, though. I tried to sleep on the side facing away from her, because otherwise I would have just stared at this strange, unpredictable creature I'd created snoring next to me. So, instead, I asked Jason every ten minutes if she was okay. Rather than turning over and looking for myself. If I looked, I'd want to stand up, go over to her, put my finger under her nose to make sure she was really breathing. I tortured Jason for at least two hours, making him sit up to look. And then, finally, the sun was up and neither of us had slept.
Six weeks later I've gotten oh-so-much better at just letting go of watching over her.
The first night she slept in her crib was that magical night where she slept for seven and a half hours, and I naively thought I'd stumbled upon that parenting holy grail so many blindly grasp at for months, even years.
I don't know what I was like when I was Adelyn's age; I do know, however, that I struggled for way too long with a need to sleep with my parents. I had an insanely active imagination as a kid, one where vindictive skeletons were rattling around in my kitchen and that distant beeping noise from the leaving room was a bomb a team of Nazis had assembled. I spent years trying to sleep by myself without concocting these wild fantasies. My parents tried everything; they bribed me to sleep through the night on my own, rationalized with me, explained the unlikelihood of Nazis in Middle Tennessee. I don't even remember when it stopped. Actually, I don't know if it ever did. I've just learned to better ignore the fear and focus on sleep.
I don't want Adelyn to go through the same thing. Not that it's preventable. The only thing my parents ever did wrong was encourage me to read and imagine as much as possible. But now that I have a child of my own and I get to try to fix whatever was wrong with my own childhood in her, I want to start early.
So at six weeks, she was going to sleep in her crib like a big girl.
Last night. Oh, last night. Jason and I gave her a bath (which she loves). We sang to her. Read to her. Swaddled her. Fed her one last time. She fell asleep at 11. At 2:30, I heard her crying over the monitor. I woke up, warmed her bottle, fed her with all the lights off. She ate four ounces and then burped like a champ. And then proceeded to cry for four more hours.
Nothing was working.
It got to the point I had hoped, prayed, it would never get to. When absolutely nothing was calming her and the screeching was starting to ricochet through my brain like nails down a chalkboard. I put her back in her crib. Turned off the lights. Shut the door. I walked outside to my back porch for exactly five minutes. I hope this doesn't qualify as "crying it out"; that really wasn't my intention. I just needed a minute--or five--to quiet myself.
When I went back upstairs, she was fast asleep.
Two hours later, I heard the crying again. I had just fallen back to sleep myself. She was fed and burped, and has now been asleep for three and a half hours.
I need a nap.
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Are you thinking about having a baby and you would like for that baby to be a girl? You do not have to spend a ton of money to have a certain sex of baby. Getting pregnant is a science and there are certain facts about science that you can use in order to have a boy or a girl. There are some tips...
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Menstruation is often associated with symptoms, like bloating, fatigue, painkillers for menstrual cramps relief, others try various methods to relieve menstrual cramps. The following are some of the methods which can help you relieve menstrual cramps. Some of the...
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Most moms-to-be know good nutrition starts in the womb. By getting the proper balance of vitamins and minerals while pregnant, a mother can help set her unborn baby on the road to lifelong health. While a good diet can provide for most of a developing baby's needs, some vital nutrients are nearly...
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The news of pregnancy surely brings a wave of joy to the soon to be parents, especially to the mother. However, the morning sickness that accompanies it can make one feel irritated and tired. Morning sickness is a feeling of nausea often associated with vomiting in women who are pregnant. Though ...
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The food that you eat has an impact on every single cell in your body and the old adage, "You Are What You Eat" certainly rings true. If you are wanting to know how to get pregnant fast, then your diet probably has more of an impact than you will ever realize.
Good nutrition cer...
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