Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘handouts’ Category

A Year of Talk Birth–Free ebook (rough copy)

Posted in birth, Birth Thoughts, Books, childbirth educators, handouts, Neat stuff, personal, readings, Resources on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Earlier this year I mentioned that I’d used BlogBlooker to convert my blog into a book so that I could copy the text into a year-end Wordle. Anyway, I decided I might as well make the finished blogbook available for download here as an ebook of sorts. It is pretty rough, since it includes comment [...]

Read Full Post »

Six Healthy Birth Practices Handout

Posted in active birth, birth classes, birth education, childbirth educators, handouts, maternity care, normal birth, Resources, Tools on May 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Lamaze’s Six Healthy Birth Practices are one of my favorites resources when discussing birth plans in my classes. I find that some materials about birth planning on the internet are unnecessarily cumbersome (while simultaneously being very “cookie cutter”). As I tell my clients, the Six Healthy Birth Practices provide an absolutely phenomenal “basic” birth plan [...]

Read Full Post »

Handouts for Birth Booths

Posted in Activism, birth, birth education, childbirth educators, handouts, maternity care, normal birth, Resources, Tools on April 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

A frequent topic on email lists for birth professionals is good handouts/resources for booths at maternity or baby fairs. Rather  than making copies of materials or creating my own handouts (reinventing the wheel in a less-professional looking way!),  I am a fan of using glossy, professionally printed, but still very low cost stuff for tables [...]

Read Full Post »

Centering for Birth

Posted in active birth, birth, birth classes, birth education, Birth Thoughts, childbirth educators, giving birth, handouts, natural birth, Neat stuff, Resources, Tools on October 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I have a strong commitment to active birth—the use of movements, position changes, and most of all laboring out of bed. As a result, in my classes I tend to emphasize movement-based coping strategies for labor. However, I have also come to realize that coping measures employing relaxation and breath awareness are extremely valuable. These [...]

Read Full Post »

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 295 other followers