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Do you need physical therapy postpartum?

September 29, 2016 By Lauren McClain

Do you need physical therapy postpartum?This is a guest post by a physical therapist who specializes in postpartum issues. It's perfect timing because I just got back from the Spinning Babies Conference in Minnesota, where I learned all about the pelvis and bodywork! I can't wait to share some of the things I learned with my birth class clients.  For [...]

Filed Under: Birth Science, Postpartum

Acupuncture for Pregnancy & Birth

February 16, 2016 By Lauren McClain

Acupuncture for Pregnancy & Birth

I met my friend Erin when she took birth classes in Bowie, MD last year. Erin is an acupuncturist and I asked her to share some ways that she helps women. I am especially intrigued by acupuncture as fertility treatment because I have had two couples who went through serious medical treatments, were about to […]

Filed Under: Easier Birthing, Healthy Pregnancy, Maryland Birth, Postpartum, Turn a Breech

Why You Still Look Pregnant: Find and Fix a Mummy Tummy

September 19, 2014 By Lauren McClain

Why You Still Look Pregnant: Find and Fix a Mummy Tummy

Image from the excellent MuTuSystem.com I remember lying on the bed after my first birth, feeling my slightly (oh, the benefits of being young) gooshy postpartum stomach. I’m super weird and have always kind of liked the postpartum softness there. I can think about what my body just did and anyway, I know it will […]

Filed Under: Exercises for Birth, Healthy Pregnancy, Postpartum Tagged With: birth, diastasis. pushing, postpartum belly

The Family Germs: Probiotics For Pregnancy & Birth

July 31, 2014 By Lauren McClain

The Family Germs: Probiotics For Pregnancy & Birth

  We used to think that our bodies were…well…us. But it turns out they aren’t so much us, as they are them. There are trillions of cells that are the product of our genes–what we think of as our body. And there are hundreds of trillions of micro-organisms that colonize our bodies. Let’s make sure […]

Filed Under: Healthy Pregnancy, Natural Birth, Natural Birth Tips, Postpartum Tagged With: Birth Science, mircobiome birth, pregnancy probiotics

When you fail at birth

November 14, 2013 By Lauren McClain

When you fail at birth

Maria had a successful VBAC! Awesome! Bekka didn’t. Bekka tried but had an unsuccessful VBAC. Her birth was a failure. Bekka failed. Although “successful VBAC” or “successful natural birth” or even “71% of women who planned it were successful in having a vaginal breech birth” sounds like positive language, it’s actually fraught with emotionally damaging […]

Filed Under: Cesarean, Postpartum, Vaginal Breech Birth, VBAC

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