When preparing for an empowering birth, inspiration is always wonderful. When birthing my last child, I visualized many different things. Beautiful, calm, intimate thoughts that helped me moan and sway through my contractions. I remember saying to myself when an intense wave would hit, “Yes!!! I want this! This is bringing my baby to me.” If you follow our Facebook…
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!!!
A very merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let’s hope it’s a good one Without any fear And so this is Christmas For weak and for strong For rich and the poor ones The world is so wrong And so happy Christmas For black and for white For yellow and red ones Let’s stop all the fight A very…
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Facing Negative Thoughts and Fears and How to Turn Them Around
This post is raw and personal. I am sharing it because I think that it may help many other pregnant women and that alone is enough of a reason for me. My thoughts are tearing me apart and creating fears. I came to realize this in the last few years. I know what I am doing and I can not…
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22 Favorite Birth Quotes and Affirmations
“Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.” ~ Jane Weideman “When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change.” ~Marie Mongan, Hypnobirthing ”If I don’t know my options, I don’t have any.” ~ Diana Korte “There is a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
“Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of love.” ~Maureen Hawkins
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3 Videos to Teach Us Nature’s Lessons About Birth
I homeschool my children and we were doing a project about horses. I looked up a few videos on Youtube and our learning led us to birth videos of animals. We watched a few different types of births and I could not help but see the strong correlation between humans and animals birthing. I also noticed the huge differences. Animals listen to…