Category Archives: Your miraculous BIRTH

How Much Information Do You Want?

Julie reflected over the events of the past couple of days. And boy were there some events to consider! She held in her arms a beautiful baby boy. Her baby was colicky, yet for the moment he was calm so she was going to consider and revel in what she had accomplished. She gave birth…

How to be with a full range of emotions

At the end of her second pregnancy, Marianne gave birth to a healthy baby and to another beautiful baby she would soon bury. She had been pregnant with twins. The pregnancy went great. They felt so blessed to be adding 2 little babies to their family. They didn’t find out gender and Marianne was hoping…

How can you visualize the kind of birth you want?

Georgia prepared for her birth process by actively visualizing the experience she wanted to have. I asked her, How can you visualize something you’ve never done? How can you picture what you want to have happen? She admitted this was a good question and proceeded to try to explain. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

How do you prepare?

Especially for something you’ve never experienced before? Jill spent her pregnancy preparing in a particular way for her birth process. She was aware of practice called kiva (in fact she teaches that in her doula practice) in which a person becomes internally focused. It’s a type of focus where you are super present to the…

Update from Christi

Christi writes, “I interviewed with you for the book in the early stages of my pregnancy (my second). Just wanted to let you know that my visualizations worked – on Sunday, I had a GLORIOUS, triumphant homebirth with my son, Henry! Exactly how I pictured it. It took a lot of work on my part…

When I knew I was neurotic…

It was the second night in the hospital after my daughter, my eldest, was born. My husband had spent the night in the hospital the first night of her life and the second night, I sent him home to get a good night’s rest. He had just left and they were taking my daughter to…