preparation Archives - Barbara Buckner Suárez

Happy World Doula Week!

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | birth workers, calling, connection, doula, family-centered, preparation, resources, support

I can’t let this week go by without a shout-out to all of the wonderful women I know personally, and professionally, who’ve taken up the call to become a doula. A doula is a woman trained to assist other women in childbirth and/or to support a new family following the...

ZUMBA!

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | Childbirth Education, expectation, planning, preparation, reality, teaching, work

I arrived at my class this evening ready to teach. It had been awhile since I was last at this location, and with the recent “ice storm” I left early not knowing what traffic would be like at rush hour. It wasn’t that bad and I was happy to clock in right on time to...

Today’s Top 10 List: Ways to Support a New Family

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 4th trimester, body image, help, preparation, support

Top 10 List of Things YOU Can Do to Make Our Lives as New Parents Easier Please stop by the store and pick up the following: (Provide a specific list) (Include the basics that you know you’ll go through in a week and at least one yummy treat you only buy every once in...

Practical Packing for L&D

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | packing, planning, preparation, resources, supplies

This post is for all the Mommas who’ve asked me over the years, “What should I pack for the hospital?” But it’s especially for two particular Mommas who asked me over the weekend. One posed this question during an express class and I didn’t have time to get into my...

Just Dance

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...

The Birth Scale Part II

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | decision-making, preparation

This is a continuation on a piece I published the other day about “A Birth Story” blogpost I read in Longreads. If you’d like to read part 1, it’s right here. With no judgement intended toward the author or her birth story, there are things that might have been very...