When I teach exercises during the Healthy Mother Lamaze classes, one of the first things I ask couples to do is to move their bodies freely and to do their version of the belly dance! Belly dance has its origins in African birth rituals, and many of the expectant parents in my class are surprised [...]
Many times, when expectant parents call me about Lamaze classes, the first thing they ask is “Do you teach breathing techniques?” I tell them that I do, and then also tell them that “breathing” is not the most important part of the classes. Many women who come to me for postnatal exercises, or lactation consults, [...]
More important that you think…. World over experts concur over one thing – that breastfeeding your newborn child is the best birthday present you can possibly give. This being the World Breastfeeding Week, I want to emphasize this important fact that there is no substitute for mothers milk, especially during the first year of your [...]
Wikipedia defines Meconium as the “earliest stools of an infant”. As opposed to later feces, Meconium has no odor, and is sterile. According to studies, babies pass Meconium during their 12th to 41st weeks in mother’s uterus, with most occuring between the 15th and 41st weeks. Typically, it is thick, sticky and green/black in color. [...]
A couple of days ago I received an email from Kathy Petersen about an article that appeared here. The article made me stop and re-read, if nothing else, for the immense implication it could potentially have on the study of Autism. While, you can read the article by following the link above, I will try [...]
I’m back in Hyderabad after spending a couple of days at a birth workshop in Goa led by Elena Tonetti Vladimirova, a wonderful and wise woman (see link below). The workshop filled me with even more inspiration about birth as a natural, beautiful, intelligent process. It reaffirmed my awareness of the incomparable benefits that it [...]
I come back to this blog after a while. So I wanted to find something invigorating to write about. Well, I went running to clear my mind, and also to jump start my body, which incidentally had gained some weight. And, on that first day’s run (after almost an year of finding excuses, real and [...]
More important that you think…. World over experts concur over one thing – that breastfeeding your newborn child is the best birthday present you can possibly give. This being the World Breastfeeding Week, I want to emphasize this important fact that there is no substitute for mothers milk, especially during the first year of your [...]
Many of our customers ask us “What is Birth Energy” that midwives talk about? The answer to the question is both easy and extremely difficult. Birth energy is felt, and seldom seen. As nature’s narcotics, the powerful Endorphins hormones transport the mother to a different different world during the active stage of labor, she goes [...]