In HypnoBirthing, it’s emphasized that a due date is pretty arbitrary and there is a lot of room for flexibility. However, doctors get hung up on numbers dates and time lines. This is why I’m not going to see my doctor again until my baby is born, unless she is available to help deliver. I [...]

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HypnoBirthing ®, in my opinion, is the gold standard of child birth education.  This lofty position is not based on a plethora of sophisticated complicated techniques or the inclusion of a series of CDs.  Just the opposite is true.   HypnoBirthing ® is based on the very simple premise that a woman’s body is supremely capable [...]

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Infant deaths in the United States declined 2 percent in 2006, but the rate still remains well above that of most industrialized countries and is one of the indicators suggesting that Americans pay more but get less from their health care system.  We are spending twice what other countires do and we are falling further [...]

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I have a girlfriend who just delivered her 5th child. My girlfriend was “due” 6 days before me, had her baby two days ago. She definitely wanted to be in the hospital because she has 4 other children and likes the peace, contrary to me who plans on experiencing my birthing surges at home an [...]

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So I went to my OB yesterday for one of the weekly doctors visits as I’m now in the home stretch at 37 weeks.  Here is my status.  I do not have gestational diabetes, I do not have hypertension, I’m relatively energetic and in good spirits, baby is measuring fine, babies heartbeat is always healthy [...]

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I work at a hospital where some of the landscaping consists of flower beds planted with small bushes and flowers.  The dirt is covered with tree bark and the beds look quite neat with their planned greenery patterns contrasting with the red bark.  Unfortunately for the gardeners, there are also uninvited plants growing in the [...]

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I wanted to piggy back Stella’s Birthing and Traffic analogy post.  All I can say is Amen.  Timing is everything.  I’m a HypnoBirthing mom and student of Stella.  I’m around 35 or so weeks along.  My child is still moving around some, but I think she has moved into optimal birthing position after she and [...]

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Once again we have evidence to prove that natural is by far superior to artificial.  We in HypnoBirthing ® happily recognize that nature’s design is excellently suited for birthing and care for our babies and their parents.  We celebrate the efficacy of a woman’s marvelous body to conceive and birth babies and we strongly recommend [...]

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Having to commute twice daily by car gives me plenty of opportunity to appreciate the vagaries of traffic flow and the influence of collaterals such as time of day, number of vehicles and traffic lights.
 
It appears that timing more than any other factor makes a huge difference to the ease of progress.   A distance that [...]

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I live in Bakersfield, Ca and only seldom get exposed to local frost and snow.  This is good for me and for my outdoor plants as we really don’t appreciate turning into icicles.
 
None-the-less some years ago, we were offered a chance to experience how it felt to live in Antarctica.  All of us huddled together [...]

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