Save the Date for our Homebirth Conference

September 26th, 2011 by tbailey
“Heart and Hands” Doula Service is having our next conference.

Save the Date! March 24th, 2012 the 12th Annual Family Centered Maternity Care Conference will be at the Doubletree Hotel in Monroeville. Featuring renowned homebirth midwife, Tonya Brooks of The Natural Birth and Women’s Center in southern California. She has caught over 5000 babies, and has devoted her career to making homebirth a safe option for mothers and babies, as well as researching risks and benefits of modern obstetric practice. It should be an amazing, and informative conference.

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The Worst Baby Shower Cake Ideas Ever!

September 23rd, 2011 by tbailey

Doulas are always hearing about baby showers and other preparations for meeting the baby. We enjoy blessing way ceremonies ourselves. More on those later. I enjoy the humorous blog: Cake Wrecks  – when professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong. She is always posting frighteningly real birth  and cesarean  birth cakes that people get for their baby showers. Her objection and mine: what makes the baker think these cakes are appetizing? They are hilarious, though. Especially if you aren’t having them at a shower you are attending. Be warned, these are really creepy! Did I say really creepy? I am not kidding here folks! Check them out if you dare!

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Learning to Spin Babies

August 10th, 2011 by tbailey

Yesterday I joined some friends in the birthing community in learning techniques for spinning babies from Gail Tulley. We were shown many techniques to help a pregnant mom get her baby into an optimal position for birth. One of my favorites was the forward leaning inversion. Gail said, one inversion a day for 30 seconds each, is good for the round ligaments and helping position the baby.

Pregnant mother showing us a forward leaning inversion.

After the mother inverts herself, she gently crawls down and then sits up fairly quickly. This helps her balance the round ligaments holding her uterus in place. If her uterus is in balance, her baby will find the optimal position for his birth! It was a fascinating class. I’m going to practice these elements so that I can offer them to the mothers that I help with birth.

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Help for Morning Sickness

July 18th, 2011 by tbailey

Many moms experience morning sickness during their first trimesters. I recommend Marilyn Shannon’s short book: Managing Morning Sickness. You can get it from the Couple to Couple League’s website. She believes that vitamins, such as B12 and B6  help. Also, keeping your blood sugar even. Her booklet is easy to read and very helpful.  Don’t suffer! Get help!

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Evil Giraffe Video Clip

July 16th, 2011 by tbailey

A fifteen-year-old girl took a short bit from an Eddie Izzard concert and animated it. Here is a link to the result. I think this girl did a wonderful job of animation. See for yourself! Very funny!

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