Our birth story… What I learnt throughout this birth of our first child Émanuel (Manu for short), was that for the rest of my life starting now, things may not […]
Babies
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When Is The Ideal Time For Your Newborn To Have Their Very First Bath? It’s true, when babies first come out into the world, they are a bit gooey – […]
Most of us instinctively know that sleep is important, but just how important surprised me. I wonder if it will surprise you too. Last month, I have the privilege of […]
Time and time again as HypnoBirthing Educators, we meet babies born using the HypnoBirthing method who are alert, calm, and content from the moment they are born. Even in cases […]
Hello Everyone, Today I invite you to skip your normal meditation and watch this instead. It’s just as good and probably better. It truly is a fabulous opportunity to watch […]
The first step in changing I am going to try to breastfeed into breastfeeding is to acknowledge that breastfeeding IS the biological norm of babies and mothers. Breastfeeding is […]
Listening to your baby cry is hard. Not just math equation problem hard… gut-wenching soul-cracking hard. And the crazy thing is that their cries are designed to invoke that reaction […]
After creating the post about Prenatal Yoga poses, my students keep asking for a similar post with the yoga moves that we typically do in the mom and baby yoga […]
If you are close to your due date, chances are that someone or perhaps everyone seems to be asking you this question. But how really does anyone prepare for a […]
I guess for me – it really all started back in 2000 when I read the book The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche. Although I’d been both […]
One of the moms in my community emailed me today and asked if I had tips for dealing with sibling jealousy following the birth of a new baby. Here’s the […]
Ahhhh… the swaddle. There is something so sweet about a little wrapped up munchkin. But getting that perfect swaddle is not so simple. I remember watching the nurse at the […]
Here are several abstracts on the antibacterial properties of vernix. There’s a good reason why babies should not be bathed right away after birth. The power of vernix is truly […]
The other night one of my hypnobirthing couples asked me about the breast crawl. They thought that when their daughter is born, they would simply put baby to breast immediately, […]
This question has gained a fair amount of attention recently when a group of moms in the United States launched a lawsuit against Proctor and Gamble, the makers of pampers. […]