What is Active Birth?

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When we think of a woman giving birth we generally imagine her lying down. While this may be the common experience of most women today but, in years gone by, women would generally give birth at home in a squatting position. It’s only in relatively recently times that labor has become located in a hospital [...]

The Benefits of Prenatal Yoga

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One of the main reasons many women do yoga during pregnancy is to help relieve back pain. Pregnancy yoga has proven to be excellent in reducing or eliminating not only lower back pain but also other common pregnancy aches such as sciatica and tensions in the pelvis. With the extra weight of a growing baby, [...]

Is Home Birth Riskier?

Women who plan home births recover more rapidly from childbirth, but there is a higher risk of their child dying, an international study suggests. US analysis of more than 500,000 births in North America and Europe found death rates for babies in planned home births were double that of those in planned hospital births. But [...]

Fertility Self Massage

If you’ve been her before you probably know we are big advocates of massage as part of your c section recovery. Below is a preview of a wonderful self massage program to increase fertility and chances of pregnancy from the Natural Fertility Shop. Fertility massage is a powerful natural fertility treatment that has been used [...]