Healthy Pregnancies, Babies and Children
I will be the first to admit that I never really thought about my own health until I was pregnant with my oldest child. Unfortunately, healthy pregnancy was not promoted at the OB/GYN offices that I tried out during my first pregnancy, either. I had to learn about about how to have a healthy pregnancy through my own research and through the support of a wonderful midwife that I was fortunate enough to find. I learned that obstetricians are wonderful doctors to have if you have any complications orproblems. However, they don't often know how to handle the vast majority of women that do not have complications. I was able to use the services of obstetricians when my pregnancies required them, and to use the wisdom of myself and my midwives for the rest. If you are pregnant or are planning to be in the future, please look at the facts behind birth and discover how the safest and healthiest places to give birth are: in your own home and in birthing centers.
The Trust Birth Initiative helps women learn to trust in the birth process.
The Bradley Method of Childbirth teaches great relaxation techniques for a nonmedicated birthing experience (their diet information is sorely lacking). The Bradley Methods for breathing during labor and delivery are much more appropriate for human women than the Lamaze Methods are.
Recommended Pregnancy and Birthing books:
Active Birth
Janet Balaskas
The Birth Partner
Penny Simkin
Birthing from Within
Pam England
The Birth Book
William and Martha Sears
Ina's May's Guide to Childbirth
Ina May Gaskin
Recommended Pregnancy and Birthing books for Siblings:
It's So Amazing!
Robie H. Harris
Welcome With Love
Jenni Overend, Julie Vivas
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
La Leche League International
The Breastfeeding Book
Martha and William Sears
Mothering Your Nursing Toddler
Norma Jane Bumgarner
Recommended Children's Health books:
How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor
Robert S. MendelSohn, MD
The Baby Book
William and Martha Sears
Nighttime Parenting
William Sears
While you are learning the best ways in which to bring your beautiful children into the world and how to take care of them once they are here, be sure to have fun in naming them, too. Finding a perfect name
is a challenge! Enjoy naming your baby!
How popular or well known do you want your child's name to be?
Do you want to know the name's history and meaning? That has been quite important to us!
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