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Scientific Birth and how to have one.
updated postScientific Birth is birth as nature intended, without intervention. Technological Birth relates to the interventions. Understand both. Determine for yourself whether or not a...
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Informed Birth Preparation: what it takes and what it gives
Informed Birth Preparation puts you in the drivers seat. You get to determine the route, including any detours. You choose the music, the companions and guide the conversation. Taking the drivers...
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What about the cord?
first published 19/12/2015One of the biggest questions surrounding birth is 'What about the cord?'Many people have a sense of urgency that the cord must be clamped and cut in a dramatic and special...
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GUEST POST: Emma Park on the Importance of Microbiome in The First 1000 days
I have invited Emma Park to share with us her program The First 1000 Days and to tell us about herself and why the microbiome is so important. Thank you for being so generous in your time and...
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What do you need?
Frozen II is a tale of Power, of Leadership and of Change.There are many layers to Frozen II. Elsa’s journey of self discovery weaves through a tale of transformation for each of the main characters....
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Birth beyond Leboyer
The Year was 1975.It was International Women's Year. Colour TV came to Australia and The Netherlands won Eurovision with 'Ding-a-dong'.It was the year Frederick Leboyer published Birth without...
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Birthing the Placenta
This aspect of birth is often left out of the stories (read Think Birth's article, which includes a water birth video). When creating a birth plan, it is often the overlooked part of preparations....
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The Game of Birth
There is an unspoken reality lurking in the undertones of maternity care.It is sinister and unconscious, a toxic unawareness that seeps into all communications and puts the weight of responsibility...
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Now published - About Bloody Time: the menstrual revolution we have to have from Victorian Women's Trust on Vimeo.I received this book after pledging in the Crowd Funding campaign. It is beautifully...
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Preventing Post Natal Anxiety and Depression
I was talking to someone about 'birth disappointment' the other day, and was told "women should not have such high expectations! Honestly women these days are just so fragile". I took a deep breath...
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The Obsession with Sleep
Our child does not have to be trained to speak. They learn to speak by copying, by listening, by being spoken to. Once this skill is achieved, it leads to reading, and writing. Language is a gift,...
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From Fear to Celebration: The Five Stages of Being
I stood on a beach. Dogs galumphed and trotted, wagging tails and lolling tongues. Blissfully enjoying the freedom of an off leash frolic with their human companions. Not so long ago, this scene...
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Before Consent...
The stork story might be fun - but it disregards the importance of Mum. That women birth seems an aside,The truth of birth we^ like to hide,With a storkish euphemism,No real choice is given,No honour...
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Autonomy in Childbirth - why does it matter?
Many women don’t seem to realise they CAN question the doctor, let alone seek another opinion or change care providers.Part of this is the power play that occurs when visiting the doctor: The act of...
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'identical' TWINS!
There once was a Fella called Pollux,Who thought his brother's mortality was bollocks,So into the heavens they goA guide to Sailors they showSt Elmo's Fire in which they could frolic Celebrating...
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When the Last Minute is also the First Minute.
"The time has come," the Doctor said,"To seek informed consent:blah blah risks--blah blah side effectsyour labour to augmentI need your 'informed consent' now--sign here for this intent." What if...
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Why can't we just be 'brutally honest'?
This post addresses a question many of us think, but know we can't voice without being offensive. But the answer to why we can't be brutally honest it is not that it is offensive. How can we just...
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Preventing Post Natal Anxiety and Depression
I was talking to someone about 'birth disappointment' the other day, and was told "women should not have such high expectations! Honestly women these days are just so fragile". I took a deep breath...
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The Obsession with Sleep
Our child does not have to be trained to speak. They learn to speak by copying, by listening, by being spoken to. Once this skill is achieved, it leads to reading, and writing. Language is a gift,...
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