A custom many traditional societies had for new mothers, and one still honored in many cultures is a “lying in” period. This was and is a time period when the mother was to focus on her baby - others took care of the mother and her household. In some cultures this could be a very [...]
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Visualizing the birth you want
December 8, 2008 – 5:07 pm
I mentioned how I felt that visualizations had helped me prepare for Galen’s birth in my post reflecting on his birth. I wanted to go into more detail on this because I feel it was a very important preparation. Many books on birth (including the Pink Kit materials) recommend visualizing the birth experience you’d like [...]
Reflections on Galen’s Birth
December 1, 2008 – 4:49 pm
I have wanted to sit down and write this post for a couple of weeks. I can’t believe how time flies with a new baby around but it does. Between taking time off to just enjoying lying in with my newborn, visiting family members, and then trying to get into a new routine with a [...]
The Birth Story!
November 6, 2008 – 6:01 pm
I’ve posted Galen’s birth story!
Click here to read Galen’s story and see a few pics!
I’ll post more pictures and reflections on his birth over the next couple of weeks… we’re still taking it easy enjoying our babymoon and family time
Our Son is Here!
October 29, 2008 – 12:02 pm
Our baby boy Galen arrived at home before our midwives did! See the site homepage for his details - one picture is on the homepage - I’ll post more here when I get the chance!
Pink Kit Benefits for me
October 6, 2008 – 5:00 pm
We’ve been working on our Pink Kit “routines” pretty much every night - give or a take a few ;) But we’ve been working it consistently.
One of our Pink Kit techniques - the Hip Lift - has been really helpful during pregnancy. I have had some pain in my right hip my last three pregnancies. [...]
Massage and Body Care
September 17, 2008 – 4:34 pm
Ahhhhhh. What a lovely section of the Pink Kit’s Essential Preparations the Massage and Body Care chapter was. I can deal with any childbirth course that tells my man to give me a massage. Of course having the instructions in our course materials doesn’t mean my fellow will actually give me a massage but… I [...]
The Internal Work
September 15, 2008 – 4:05 pm
I’ve promised in the last couple of Pink Kit work posts that I’d talk about the Internal Work. I wanted to get at least a week of it done and with being busy last week we’ve been doing the work about two weeks now.
The internal work is sort of like perineal massage, which you may [...]
Tension and Relaxation During Birth
September 5, 2008 – 4:03 pm
Moving along in our Pink Kit work we did our next video section, which talks about how tension and relaxation can influence and affect the course of your baby’s birthing.
This section felt pretty familiar. After reading through New Focus and having gotten through most of the video I’ve learned a whole lot about relaxation [...]
Working with the Soft Tissue of the Pelvis
September 4, 2008 – 9:14 pm
I’m a little bit behind on writing about our Pink Kit work. We’ve done two more sections of the video and we’ve also started the “internal work” - which is done daily until baby comes. I’ll write about that in another post.
In this post I’ll write a bit about one of the [...]