Happy Birthday my son Dominic As my firstborn, you were showered with joy and love I adore you, when you were a baby as you smile like a Buddha And it seems that the world revolves around you and I My cares are gone as I hold you in my arms You cried the wholeContinue reading “Happy Birthday to my firstborn Dominic, now 20”
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The Newborn after Birth
Newborns feel, remember and are influenced by their experiences. During the first few weeks of life, they need mother’s milk (if possible), warmth and sleep. When travelling, mothers before us have worn a sling to carry baby around in which rocks the newborn to sleep. Sleeping with their mothers helps newborn babies to regulate theirContinue reading “The Newborn after Birth”
Midwives delivering babies for hundreds of years
Midwife means “with woman.” Traditionally, women have attended and assisted other women during labor and birth. As modern medicine emerged in the West, birth fell into the realm of the medical. Today the medical or technocratic model of birth is the mainstream in America while other countries, who use midwives as the primary care giversContinue reading “Midwives delivering babies for hundreds of years”
Feeding with Mother’s Milk
Most mothers around the world agree that: The mother’s heartbeat is the baby’s lullaby music. The mother’s milk has sleep inducing benefits. The mother’s milk is not dropable like a bottle and is easy to carry around. The mother’s milk stores the baby’s milk at just the right temperature. The mother’s milk is readily availableContinue reading “Feeding with Mother’s Milk”
Gloves, hospital, homebirth, infection
I delivered my children at home with midwives because I want to be in home birth setting, be attended by midwives, not be in hospital setting where more microbes and bacteria exist that can cause infection and for many reasons. Many years ago, before the introduction of gloves, many laboring women died in the hospital.Continue reading “Gloves, hospital, homebirth, infection”