Pregnancy/Birth Articles

Pregnancy Yoga Class Handouts

• The Three Stage of Labour
• Pelvic Floor Exercises
• Your Posture during Pregnancy
• Tips for Labour
• My Birth Plan 

And here are some pregnancy/parenting articles that may be of interest:

Pregnancy:

• How the First Nine Months shape the rest of your life
• Help for Public Symphisis Pain during Pregnancy
• Mum's Stress Reaches Baby in the Womb
• Benefits of Exercising during Pregnancy
• Protecting your Perineum - from the inside out
• Putting Consciousness back into Pregnancy
• Estimating your due date
• Restless Leg Syndrome
• Optimal Foetal Positioning for Birth
• Antenatal Depression

Birth:

• Monitoring Your baby During Labour
• Birth froom the Baby's Perspective
• Newborn Breastcrawl
• Breast Crawl - A Scientific Overview
• Birth Affirmations
• Restricted Umbilical Cord Problems
• Judging Birth
• How Belief Creates Birth Realities
• To drug or not to drug: The Epidural Debate
• A talk about delayed cord clamping 
• Melatonin's Role in Labour Progress
• The Assessment of Progress
• The Third Stage of Labour - benefits of a Natural Approach
• Pushing during the third stage of Labour
• What You Don't Know about Your Cervix can ruin your Birth
• Oxytocin
• Big baby - Is Induction Necessary?
• Vitamin K - An Alternative Perspective
• VBAC Tips
• Episiotomies - What you should know

Breastfeeding:

• Breastfeeding  - Starting out Right
• Breastfeeding Basis - Why babies seem more full on formula
• Breastfeeding/Co-sleeping Mothers get more Sleep
• The Benefits of Feeding 'on demand'
• Jack Newman Breastfeeding Resources
• Breastfeeding After a C-Section
• Laidback Breastfeeding

Baby:

• 20 "Essential" Baby Items that Aren't Essential!
• Life in the Fourth Trimester
• Rethinkig Swaddling
• The Case Against Ferber Sleep Training
• Car Seats are for Cars
• The Lies Sleep Trainers tell you
• The Benefits of Co-Sleeping
• Why African Babies Don't Cry
• Strollers, Baby Carriers and Infant Stress
• 10 Reasons Not to let your Baby Cry it Out
• Sleeping Through the Night
• So I Nursed Him Every 45 Minutes
• The Continuum Concept
• Making Peace with your Birth Experience
• Postnatal Depression
• Reasons to give your baby Vitamin D