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Uncontrollable Birth: A Checklist for Thinkers and Planners

February 7, 2020 By Lauren McClain

Uncontrollable Birth: A Checklist for Thinkers and PlannersHaving a baby is notoriously unpredictable. You don't know when he or she is coming. You don't know how long it will take. You don't know how you or the baby will respond to labor. You don't know when your water will break. You don't know how long you'll need to push. You don't even [...]

Filed Under: Birth Workers, Birthing Rights and Choices, Natural Birth, Natural Birth Tips, Support: Doulas & Partners

Fear-Tension-Pain Teaching Tool

April 4, 2019 By Lauren McClain

Fear-Tension-Pain Teaching ToolInspired by the fear-tension-pain cycle, meditation, Brené Brown, and the concept of holding space, I plotted three aspects of labor experience. Everyone feels each cycle at some point in their labor. The goal, of course, is to spend as much time as possible in labor (and life!) feeling at peace. A high level of fear means more tension, which [...]

Filed Under: Better Birth Graphics, Birth Professionals, Easier Birthing, Natural Birth Tips, Relaxation for Birth, Support: Doulas & Partners

Stages of Labor Handout

February 20, 2019 By Lauren McClain

Stages of Labor HandoutCan't do birth class or doula work without covering the stages of labor! Here's a handy stages of labor handout that details all the parts of stage one: dilation. The stages of labor were definitely defined and named by a man. Getting to 10 centimeters feels like three or four distinct phases. I have here so named [...]

Filed Under: Better Birth Graphics, Natural Birth Tips

Elements of Easier Birth

September 14, 2016 By Lauren McClain

Elements of Easier BirthTrusting the process...the whole process Although women have no second thoughts about growing a baby (ooo...gotta work on growing some tiny toenails today!), they very often lack trust in the birth process. We trust our bodies to grow the baby. We need to trust them to get the baby out as well. A good childbirth education class [...]

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

Four L-Words that Make Birth Hard

June 16, 2016 By Lauren McClain

Four L-Words that Make Birth Hardphoto credit: Petal and Vine Photography   Birth is a physiological, instinctual act. We muss it up considerably with our meddling and medicine and science. That's not to say that science doesn't sometimes help and for that we are very grateful. It would be nice if science could just wait until it was called on [...]

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

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