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By Vicki Elson, MA, CCE, CD www.birth-media.com Feel free to make copies and share with credit! This is all true for helping your mate with labor AND for raising kids: 1.  Patience. 2.  Patience. 3.   Patience. 4.  Good things take time, including having babies and raising children. 5.  Be present – not multitasking – when…

By Vicki Elson, MA, CCE, CD www.birth-media.com Feel free to make copies and share with credit! Labor pain comes with a gift: the “cocktail of love hormones,” described by Dr. Michel Odent, includes oxytocin, the hormone of labor, lactation, and love, plus an endorphin rush that helps us deal with pain and also gives us…

By Vicki Elson, MA, CCE, CD www.birth-media.com Feel free to make copies and share with credit! There’s been a lot of press lately about the Australian home birth advocate who suffered a heart attack during labor at home, was rushed to the hospital, and died the next day.  This story is extremely distressing, but there’s…

What You Really Need To EAT When You’re Pregnant by Vicki Elson, MA, CCE, CD   www.birth-media.com   Feel free to make copies. Okay, eating when you’re pregnant is a full time job.  It’s a lot of work to choose foods carefully, prepare fresh vegetables, cook fresh meats, fish, brown rice and oatmeal.  But it’s WORTH IT…

By Vicki Elson, MA, CCE, CD www.birth-media.com Feel free to copy this. Imagine your perfect mate. The sex appeal of your favorite movie star. The skills of a celebrity chef, an expert massage therapist, a master builder, a sensitive counselor, a professional housecleaner, and an amateur comedian, all rolled into one. The net worth of…

“Childbirth Education Essentials” workshop in Northampton, MA USA, November 19, 2011   This unique, intimate one-day workshop for childbirth professionals and students explores what expectant parents and their educators REALLY need to know about pregnancy, birth, cultural/media influences, fear-busting, baby-bonding, and raising healthy happy kids.  It’s an immersion in skill-building: teaching experientially, tailoring classes to specific…

I’m making a new film (the first one is “Laboring Under An Illusion: Mass Media Childbirth vs. The Real Thing,” www.birth-media.com).  I’m looking for widely diverse interviewees — diverse not just in nationality, ethnicity, and class, but in experiences.   Moms who used every trick they learned in childbirth education class, and moms who made up…

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