Latin for “a sacred place” or “a private place”. Our Birthing Center provides mothers uninhibited freedom to labor as they wish, with no unnecessary medical intervention.
Hello everyone, We have been very busy with births at our birthing center, The Sanctum and our lamaze classes the past few weeks. I have some good news to announce – we now have the services of a Certified Professional Midwife from the US. Erinn Mandeville, is a midwife from Alaska and has been practicing [...]
Welcome to the new address of the Healthy Mother blog. I have moved over all posts that were in our old blog (healthymother.wordpress.com) to this address. Please visit our website at http://healthy-mother.com and please bookmark your links to this address. Dr. Vijaya
It seems ages since my last posting…. But the fact is, we have been working hard on some new initiatives at Healthy Mother, ones which we hope will further the cause for Natural Childbirth and safe and healthy birth practices in India. First, we have partnered with Douglas College, Canada to bring Lamaze Teacher Training [...]
As the new batch of would-be mothers and dads join our Healthy Mother childbirth education classes, more than a few mothers have come up to me or have called me with a myriad of questions. One such call was from a first time mother-to-be, who wanted to find out how our program could help ease [...]
Wishing All Mothers and their Families a Very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2009. The year 2008 was exciting for Healthy Mother, as we started our Lamaze and fitness classes for would-be mothers and new moms. I am happy to inform you that two weeks ago I was awarded the Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator (LCCE) certification [...]
Recently I had the opportunity to read most of the 128-page report published by Childbirth Connection (www.childbirthconnection.org) the non-profit maternity care research and advocacy group, Milbank Foundation, a non-partisan endowment working in the health care field, and the RSG, a voluntary association of legislative leaders and policy makers in the US. Here is the link [...]
In most of my labor and childbirth classes at Healthy Mother, moms- to-be are concerned about whether their baby is getting sufficient nutrition from their diet alone. At the same time, some of you are concerned about excessive weight gain during pregnancy. Both of these concerns can be taken care of, if you follow a [...]
When did you realize that you were pregnant? Perhaps you missed a period, or maybe you were feeling extraordinarily lethargic, or perhaps you felt that there was something “just different” going on with your body. Once you confirm that you are pregnant, you may have started observing your body closely. This is just one of [...]
Our older son turned 10 the other day. Phew!! it has been an exhilarating, and fulfilling 10 years.While I was carrying him we did not know much about what childbirth entailed, both from a physical and psychological perspective. Though our doctor and nurses at the Southern New Hampshire Medical Center (in Nashua, NH, USA) were [...]