Safe & Sound Births Blog
Protecting the Pelvic Floor- Breathwork & Movement Through Yoga in Pregnancy & Birth
Not only can yoga help with pain prenatally, it can help with your labor! If you’re already in pain before you’re even in labor, think about how much worse labor will feel. You have to address those issues before you go into labor. Yoga will help with this.
During labor, your powerful amazing uterus will be contracting like a beast 60 pounds of pressure per square inch-all to bring your baby Earthside.
A pelvis that moves in pregnancy is a pelvis that’ll move during labor.
We need you mobile, loose, and limber for labor. If your hips are tight during labor, you’ll have a harder time getting into lunging positions that’ll help your baby move down into your pelvis.
Finding the Right Birth Class for You & How HypnoBirthing Is My Jam
HypnoBirthing Childbirth Education Classes in Severna Park, Maryland.
HypnoBirthing is a comprehensive childbirth ed program that’s evidence based. It covers the basics of what to expect in labor, how to move through the waves of contractions, and how to arm yourself with the knowledge of your options, how to talk to providers, how to relax, and how to birth with calm and confidence whether that’s unmedicated or otherwise.
Most classes have similar components- the educational part about what to expect/what needs to happen to bring a baby here and then different ways to relax. I can’t tell you what’s going to be the right class for you. You know yourself better than I do. Trust your gut.
A Deep Dive into Mother Blessing Ceremonies
A mother blessing is about …the MOTHER. She is celebrated by her closest girlfriends and confidants. It’s intimate and homemade, and time is spent honoring the relationships the mother to be has with the people she loves and trusts. There are many different rituals that can be performed or it can be less structured and just an informal gathering with the focus on the mom.
The point is to honor her journey and give her support, love, advice, hold space for her to reach the end of her pregnancy adventure, her labyrinth of labor, and her transition into Motherhood.
On Belly Buttons, Umbilical Cords, and Severing That Tether
Belly buttons in particular are so interesting to me because of their connection in the womb. The funiculus umbilicalis was our original cord that tethered us to our own mother Earth.
You are literally the entire planet to your baby in there. Babies in the womb are like astronauts- both are in a protective, isolated environment, floating in a world of their own. Just as an astronaut relies on life support systems, the baby relies on their mother for those same systems.