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Natural Birth During COVID-19
Read more: Natural Birth During COVID-19Listen to Janice’s story and learn how, with no doula, Janice’s husband supported her through natural birth during the COVID-19 crisis in NEW YORK where the most rigid hospital restrictions exist.
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Mama Bear Awakened: From Adversity to Advocacy
Read more: Mama Bear Awakened: From Adversity to AdvocacyFor me…stories are data. So the more people that will tell their story, and the more people that will listen to others tell their stories, I think that’s really when you start to see change; because as much as we need science, we also need lived experience. We need people who are living this day…
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Supernatural Childbirth
Read more: Supernatural Childbirth“What can come from trusting God wholeheartedly and being obedient to what he says to do?” According to Kariss Farris: humility, submission, and supernatural birthing experiences! Whether we are talking about Kariss going from 6cm dilated to 10cm and pushing in about 15 minutes…her 3 hour labor from start to finish…or her declaration that her…
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Preeclampsia & Stillbirth: Insight from a grieving Mother
Read more: Preeclampsia & Stillbirth: Insight from a grieving MotherI had swelling so bad. I was a size and a half higher in my shoes…I didn’t have ankles for months…The swelling later on spread to my hands and face…more indicative to preeclampsia. Miranda Hernandez My name is Miranda Hernandez, and a little over 3 years ago, my son Adrian James was stillborn at term…
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Vaginal Hospital Birth: Insight from a BLACK LABOR & DELIVERY NURSE & DOULA
Read more: Vaginal Hospital Birth: Insight from a BLACK LABOR & DELIVERY NURSE & DOULAI’m definitely more confident [now] when I tell [patients] ‘you can do this’…and I feel good being able to tell them I did this so it’s possible for [them]…I also know exactly where their head is when they are trying to go natural and they are being induced [with Pitocin].
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The Little Mermaid Trailer Made Me Ask: What Is A Mermaid Birth? Here’s what I Found
Read more: The Little Mermaid Trailer Made Me Ask: What Is A Mermaid Birth? Here’s what I FoundA mermaid birth is also called an en caul birth. It happens when a baby is delivered still inside an unbroken amniotic (water) sac. A vaginal mermaid delivery occurs spontaneously and is a rare occurrence.
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Natural Birth Is Birth Without Pain Medication-Genesis Birthing and Living
Read more: Natural Birth Is Birth Without Pain Medication-Genesis Birthing and LivingI rejected the idea that I needed to use drugs and medical interventions during labor. So I chose natural birth. Here I share what natural birth is and why natural birth is the right birth for you too.
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PCOS and Endometriosis Diagnosis Fueled Raye the Doula To Heal Herself and Help Others
Read more: PCOS and Endometriosis Diagnosis Fueled Raye the Doula To Heal Herself and Help OthersThough diagnosed in 2016 with PCOS, endometriosis, and infertility, Raven—aka Raye the Doula—was determined to maintain her future and her dream of becoming a mother by healing herself and by extending that healing to her community through a career in birthwork.
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From Slavery to Freedom: Birthing On My Own Terms
Read more: From Slavery to Freedom: Birthing On My Own TermsThe fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. Fredrick Douglass— “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” I am a Black woman…
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Unassisted Births Are On The Rise During COVID-19: Here’s Why—Genesis Birthing and Living
Read more: Unassisted Births Are On The Rise During COVID-19: Here’s Why—Genesis Birthing and LivingFaced with the COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid closures of maternal healthcare facilities, overextended home birth midwives, and a national housing crisis that left us homeless; my husband and I took refuge in natural, home, and unassisted birth in the urban southwest and in the rural southeast. Here’s how. By Shayla Brown The National Problem In…
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A Black Nurse Midwife’s Natural Hospital Birth
Read more: A Black Nurse Midwife’s Natural Hospital BirthNicole Diggins is a black birth midwife, black birth mother, and a trainer of black doulas. Read and hear her story as a nurse-midwife birthing naturally and ecstatically a hospital.
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A 10 Pound Vaginal Birth: Insight From a Black Doula
Read more: A 10 Pound Vaginal Birth: Insight From a Black DoulaBrandie witnessed the vaginal, natural, hospital birth of a healthy 10 pound baby! Her account of this birth is important because in the opinion of western medicine, a 10 pound baby is not only cause for concern, but it is very often termed as macrosomia (too big baby), and is given by many doctors as…
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Envision Health: Creative Expression Workshop
Read more: Envision Health: Creative Expression WorkshopSaturday, January 25, local Phoenix organization, Our Mothers and Us (OMUS) held its first event of 2020. The event entitled; Envision Health: Creative Expression Workshop; is the brainchild of OMUS founder and Arizona native, Bianca Comer. The event is “designed to encourage knowledge-sharing, fellowship, self-advocacy, and self-care to ensure healthy pregnancies and transitions into parenting.”…
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Don’t Induce Labor: It’s An Unnatural And Irreverent Thing To Do
Read more: Don’t Induce Labor: It’s An Unnatural And Irreverent Thing To DoWhat if I told you God created Birth. Would you believe me?
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What to Expect: Materni-TEA Mixer for New and Expecting Moms
Read more: What to Expect: Materni-TEA Mixer for New and Expecting MomsMy goals for Materni-TEA: Mixer for New and Expecting Moms are to:
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