by Barbara Buckner Suárez | comfort, coping
Just yesterday, I taught a “Comfort In Labor” class. It’s a short and sweet intensive class that examines the mind/body connection and the power of relaxation, rhythm and ritual as coping tools for labor and delivery. We practice the #1 comfort measure –...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | coping, decisions, expectation, labor, pain, planning
I taught a class recently that was a little different. It only meets once and focuses on the brain-body connection, the practice of comfort measures, and how to stay in a coping mindset throughout birth. There’s no discussion about the stages of labor or when to...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | baby, birth workers, coping, infant death, infertility, loss, miscarriage, pain, process, support
It takes a torrential rain or windstorm to blow the last remaining leaves off the trees revealing what was so well-hidden in the uppermost branches throughout Spring and Summer: one, two, sometimes up to three bird’s nests. They vary in size and shape, and I have no...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | Childbirth Education, coping, dancing, preparation, resources, techniques
Childbirth Educators usually encourage their families to consider dancing their babies out. Why? Well, it’s an upright position which helps gravity do its job of bringing the baby down before it comes out (essential to the process, really). Dancing allows the pelvis...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 31Days, 4th trimester, connection, coping, parenting
When it comes to new parenting, many of us can feel like we’re drowning in a sea of information, of impossible learning curves, of all the things we have to do to just get through the day. This old flyer from The American Red Cross about how to rescue the drowning...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 31Days, 4th trimester, baby blues, coping, help, PMADs
What if you really wanted to be a Momma? What if you and your partner tried for a long time to get pregnant – and it finally happened? What if you were not in the “right” relationship at the time you found yourself surprised by a pregnancy? What if you chose to...
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