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 | Childbirth Education, coping, labor, techniques
As a Childbirth Educator, I’m charged with teaching my students about ways they can successfully cope with contractions. This includes all sorts of techniques: position changes, medications, hydrotherapy and the original coping technique: breathing. Breathing gets a...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | birth plan, birth workers, Childbirth Education, doula, due date, labor
Did you ever have a Magic 8 Ball? I did. I loved that thing. I loved being able to ask a question, any question, and have the almighty oracle predict my fate. Inside the little window floated a single die, with twenty possible answers to life’s biggest...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | Childbirth Education, early labor, impact, labor, partners
In my last two posts, I discussed how laboring women and their partners are being encouraged to stay at home and away from the hospital for most, if not all, of their early labor. But the definition of early labor has changed. It is now believed that a woman is still...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | Childbirth Education, early labor, impact, labor, partners
In my last post, I identified that laboring women and their partners are being encouraged to stay at home and away from the hospital in early labor. But the definition of early labor has changed. It’s now widely believed that a laboring woman needs to get to...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | Childbirth Education, early labor, impact, labor, partners
In doing some research for my book, just recently I read an article entitled, “What is women’s experience of being at home in early labour?” This article cites that there were four main reasons women came into the hospital “too soon” despite knowing that...
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