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How to Align Baby for Easier Birth

April 25, 2016 By Lauren McClain

How to Align Baby for Easier Birth

Get Baby in the Best Position!   Your baby has an active role in her birth. She must rotate and tuck, hold and kick her body in certain ways to be born. She needs your help to do this. Babies who are lined up optimally for birth come out faster and easier than those who […]

Filed Under: Birth Science, Easier Birthing, Exercises for Birth, Natural Birth Tips

Intervention Prevention: A Quick Checklist

April 20, 2016 By Lauren McClain

Intervention Prevention: A Quick ChecklistIn order to prevent unwanted or unnecessary interventions, you can think and plan ahead of time. Consider: We Birth the Way We Live Thinking about how you have faced challenges in the past may help you know how to prepare for birth. Also Consider: Birth is Part of Our Sexuality Ask yourself what birth ambiance you [...]

Filed Under: Birth Workers, Birthing Rights and Choices, Natural Birth, Natural Birth Tips

Now Open: Better Birth Graphics

March 18, 2016 By Lauren McClain

Now Open: Better Birth Graphics

Since I started teaching childbirth education classes, I’ve been developing educational material for my clients. I teach Birth Boot Camp classes, which I have found to be comprehensive, honest, evidence-based, and refreshingly modern. I am constantly learning about birth, about our bodies, about babies, and about what my clients need to know to have a […]

Filed Under: Birth Professionals, Maryland Birth

6 Best Bets For Turning A Breech Baby

March 8, 2016 By Lauren McClain

6 Best Bets For Turning A Breech Baby

I recently put out an info-graphic detailing what I believe are the 6 most effective ways people turn breech babies. External Cephalic Version (ECV) is also a safe and reliable way to flip a breech baby head down, but here I am focusing on things that are less of an intervention. Let’s look at each […]

Filed Under: Turn a Breech

NEW Website + FREE printable

March 3, 2016 By Lauren McClain

NEW Website + FREE printable

MyBreechBaby Joins Better Birth! In a very old fashioned move, MyBreechBaby–the popular website that helps parents of breech babies make decisions about their care–has moved in with and taken the name of Better Birth Blog. You could say they married, but it would be more like marrying half bottles of ketchup since they are both […]

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