1. Leah --please identify me as "Leah".
I live in Florida. I have one child, born vaginally.
2. I never even entertained the idea that I might have a cesarean--it was not an option.
3. Didn't happen.
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5. N/A
6. Educate yourself--do not depend on your provider to give you important information. Take good care of yourself and your fetus. Eat right, exercise, do keigels, yoga, etc. Take a birthing class that teaches you how to have a natural, vaginal birth. Read lots of books on giving birth naturally. The more you know, the better.
7. Don't take care of yourself and your fetus, and let your doctor call all of the shots.
8. See #6
9. Don't listen to them. Your birth will be what you make it. Have a vision in your mind of how you want your birth to go. Play it over and over, envisioning as much detail as possible. Believe your birth will go that way--do not doubt the ability of your body to do what it was made to do.
10. By educating myself and associating with others who had positive views of birth.
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13. My pregnancy was great. I ate healthy, I exercised, I got enough sleep, I did yoga, I did keigels and other birth exercises. I had no cravings or morning sickness, due to a great diet and supplement regime, and didn't have any complaints, other than being more tired than usual, until the last month, when my expanding uterus caused my ribs to hurt and caused me to sleep less. My advice to pregnant women--see #6.
14. Educating yourself is so important. Western medical doctors are operating on a philosophy of trying to fix something that is already broken and trying to manage natural bodily processes. They do not focus on prevention or on assisting or monitoring natural bodily processes like birth. Women need to take back control of this precious and natural process and trust in their bodies' ability to birth a child without medical intervention.
By Leah Gibbons (not verified) at Tue, 10/23/2007 - 3:37pm |
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1. Leah --please identify me as "Leah".
I live in Florida. I have one child, born vaginally.
2. I never even entertained the idea that I might have a cesarean--it was not an option.
3. Didn't happen.
4. N/A
5. N/A
6. Educate yourself--do not depend on your provider to give you important information. Take good care of yourself and your fetus. Eat right, exercise, do keigels, yoga, etc. Take a birthing class that teaches you how to have a natural, vaginal birth. Read lots of books on giving birth naturally. The more you know, the better.
7. Don't take care of yourself and your fetus, and let your doctor call all of the shots.
8. See #6
9. Don't listen to them. Your birth will be what you make it. Have a vision in your mind of how you want your birth to go. Play it over and over, envisioning as much detail as possible. Believe your birth will go that way--do not doubt the ability of your body to do what it was made to do.
10. By educating myself and associating with others who had positive views of birth.
11. N/A
12. N/A
13. My pregnancy was great. I ate healthy, I exercised, I got enough sleep, I did yoga, I did keigels and other birth exercises. I had no cravings or morning sickness, due to a great diet and supplement regime, and didn't have any complaints, other than being more tired than usual, until the last month, when my expanding uterus caused my ribs to hurt and caused me to sleep less. My advice to pregnant women--see #6.
14. Educating yourself is so important. Western medical doctors are operating on a philosophy of trying to fix something that is already broken and trying to manage natural bodily processes. They do not focus on prevention or on assisting or monitoring natural bodily processes like birth. Women need to take back control of this precious and natural process and trust in their bodies' ability to birth a child without medical intervention.