Many American companies do not offer paid leave after the birth of a child, which means they probably shouldn’t run sappy Mother’s Day ads.
12:21 min
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Disclaimer: This information is only shared as a pregnant woman and mother’s experience. Your doctor is your best guide.
Your body is capable of so many things!
In the midst of frost and snow, a woman is driving her way to the hospital in Kiruna, the northernmost city of Sweden. Under the scorching sunlight of Kigali, Rwanda, another woman is being carried to the hospital on a stretcher.
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When a baby is born, so is a mother—but the natural (and sometimes unsteady) process of transition to motherhood is often silenced by shame or misdiagnosed as postpartum depression.
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A breech birth can be life-threatening.Traditional Chinese Medicine has a natural and non-invasive way to encourage a breech baby to correct its position before birth. It's called moxibustion and we get the essential details on how this practice works and how a pregnant woman can do it at home.
Joseph Chilton Pearce passionately explores the critical importance of bonding, beginning before conception, how technological hospital childbirth with its fear, anxiety, extreme rates of unnecessary caesarian surgeries
I feel like there's not enough videos of the messy bits - as beautiful as motherhood is it is so hard and there's been many times I've broken down and felt so lost and overwhelmed.
I hope anyone considering a home birth finds this enlightening I'm so grateful to my midwife Ellie for a safe delivery!
Movement is Medicine. Mobility training keeps your hips open, blood flowing, and muscles moving-ALL very important while pregnant and for labor. As you can see, nothing here is super strenuous, but it is all very effective if done consistently.