How do we keep labor normal, when so few of us have any real idea what to expect during labor? Most US women have neither attended a normal birth (or any at all, for that matter), and our ideas surrounding birth are shaped by sensationalized media representations and strangers’ horror stories? A woman may have [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Keeping Labor Normal
Posted in Birth Healing, Keeping Labor Normal, tagged affirmations, doula, labor support, normal labor, Optimal Foetal Positioning, selecting care provider, trust birth on October 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Why Birth Healing?
Posted in Birth Healing, Keeping Labor Normal, tagged Birth Healing, birth wounds, doula, emotional scarring, release, traumatic birth experience, VBAC on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mary Burgess
Life Song Perinatal Services
360.734.4342 / maryburgess555@hotmail.com
Doulas and Dads
Posted in Doulas & Dads, tagged back labor, Bellingham, birth, Childbirth Educator, dads, doula, labor coaches, labor positioning, WA on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Often, when a couple is considering hiring a doula, the baby’s dad thinks, “Well, if we have a doula, what will my role (as father) be?” In fact, when meeting with the couple, if the dad doesn’t ask this question himself, I bring it up directly. It’s a real fear dads have, it’s honest. Well, [...]
Life Song Perinatal Services
Posted in Home, tagged Bellingham, birth, Childbirth Educator, doula, WA on October 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Mary Burgess, MA, CD(DONA), CBE
maryburgess555@hotmail.com
360.734.4342
