Do you feel that consulting your Obstetrician is the only choice of pregnancy care? Ayurvedic Therapy has long been used in ancient time to prepare women physically, mentally and spiritually before conception, during pregnancy, birth and after birth care. Be it for a healthy and smooth birth preparation or to relieve pregnancy induced symptoms, Ayurveda…
DetailsCesarean birth is major abdominal surgery with or without a medical condition. Elective cesarean is the choice of the mother/couple to have their baby at specific date and time of delivery. This question has disturbed me for quite some times. I realised that people choose delivery through cesarean have lots of Fear. These fears are due to fear of childbirth pain, fear of not being able to give birth due to carrying a “big size baby”, fear of the unknown-uncertainly of how birth will turn out to be, the fear of jeopardising the safety of the baby and that of the mother puts woman to think of a definitely outcome. i.e. elective cesarean birth. There are other fears that are not mentioned here which not everyone can accept.
Milli Hill, the Founder of The Positive Birth Movement, in her post Should We Be So Very Scared of Giving Birth? is based on research finding that as many as one in 10 women suffered from tocophobia, leading to more women elect for cesarean birth due to extreme anxiety and fear of giving birth regardless of how joyful her pregnancy had been.
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Is epidural your answer to childbirth pain? What if you can childbirth is calm and enjoyable. Have fun and get insight into the truth about childbirth in this fun and educational childbirth preparation mini workshop. Seats are limited so register now.
I can’t help but share this video I found through a friend’s facebook sharing as the title caught my attention Skip Your Meditation and Watch This Instead written by Kristin Luce, a Meditation Instructor and a Psychotherapist. True to me as per the title suggested, I did not get the kind of peaceful and joyful feeling from…
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Further dig into the subject of birth trauma after I posted two articles on Overlooked Birth Trauma and Mental Imprint from Birth, in many occasions I have learned about a gentle treatment for mothers and babies to settle their emotional trauma from their birth experience through light touch. It is more respectful to babies. As babies are sensitive to touch, babies respond well to these treatments. This type of therapy is called Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. It is an effective method in balancing the flow of the “fluid” body by “feeling or listen to” the body’s emotional reaction through light touching certain part of the body.
I have recently interviewed Ms Adida Shahab, a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and an assistant tutor training people to become Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist. She has agreed to share her knowledge in how the thought patterns during pregnancy and birth can shape the mental health and physical health of the mothers and babies.
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When I was preparing my previous article on Overlook Birth Trauma, immediately a thought emerged to invite an “Insider”- Ms Gladys Lee, a Certified Spiritual Rebirthing/Breathworker to uncover how human behave in relation to how we were born. Knowing that she has a hectic schedule but still I asked her to write an article in my blog and I was thrilled when she agreed to my invitation. Ms Gladys shares with us certain traits we can see in ourselves just how birth experience shapes our beliefs. Below is her article.
“Most of us started our life in a safe, warm and loving environment – our mother’s womb. For nine months, we were supplied with whatever we needed without us asking. Nothing was lacking, nothing was in excess. We were the happiest and safest beings on earth.
Then, one day, the walls around us started to close in, forcing us to worm through a tinny narrow canal. Our head was being squashed, our face squeezed and our shoulders compressed. Suddenly there was bright light, loud noises and extreme coldness.
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Recently I had encountered a spiritual talk on Spiritual Rebirther called Minood. A very interesting topic as it relates to birth. Though I did not sign up for the workshop. Later found out from a lady who attended the rebirth session. She shared her experience, remembered vividly her feelings during her journey into this world, her birth. She definitely made me realised what had I missed out. Not long after that, this lady invited me to attend a breathwork rebirth session. Immediately I signed up, not to miss this chance a gain.
Although I did not experience the Rebirth, I was amazed by how breath can connect to our brain and retrieve memory. The breathworker John Stamoulos lead me into searching just how birth trauma happens and how does it affect our life. He suggested that I ask my mother how was I born, same time, recommended a book called Birth Without Violence by Dr. Frederick Leboyer. This book gave me the inspiration to replay “the scene”.
Let’s imagine that you are the baby resting in the comfort of your mother’s womb. Warm, surrounded by the buoyancy of the amniotic fluid, squashing against the wall of the uterus, relatively dark and quiet inside, at least not so loud.
So much as we think you, the unborn baby cannot feel, hear or see.
You feel everything through vibration, rhythm, light and even your mom’s emotion through the placenta.
Now you are physically ready to experience the transition into an unfamiliar world.
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Getting pregnant can be exciting, for some women it can be a distress. Often getting pregnant is just so natural that it did not occur to most people that preconception cleansing is essential. Neither nor they know that pregnancy is actually a process of detoxification. Here are 6 reasons why you need to know about preconception health and why our body needs preconception cleansing.
1. Pregnancy is a process of detoxification
Have you wondered why women must past the first trimester to be confirmed that her pregnancy continues? When a woman found out she is pregnant, she may experience a sign of morning sickness as early as 6th weeks in her pregnancy. Morning sickness such as vomiting and nausea are signs of natural physiological changes enabling the removal of the toxin from the woman’s body commonly occur during the first trimester. Detoxification takes place more intensely during this period so that the womb can provide a safer place to nurture the little life.
The body is intelligent. It does what is necessary to protect both the expectant mum and the baby. Should the woman’s health is deemed not fit to nurture this baby, pregnancy will be terminated, miscarriage occurs. If pregnancy happens to continue despite a poor nurturing environment, baby’s development may be compromised. Healthy couples give birth to a healthy baby. Preeclampsia happens to women with the underlying health condition. Wonder why some women experience swollen feet, excess protein in their urine and high blood pressure during pregnancy, others don’t?
2. Possibly to Prevent Birth Defects
Birth Defects are broadly defined as functional and metabolic disorders that although present but may not necessarily recognisable at birth. Birth defects cause physical and mental disability. Birth defects severely impact the quality of life of the children and their mobility some can be fatal. The causes of birth defects may be due to genetic when one or more genes do not work properly or a part of the genes is missing.
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To prepare for conception, you will definitely need to have a healthy body for your baby to get all the right nutrition and vitamins.
Here are 4 steps for you to follow to get your body to prepare for conception.
1. Overhaul the body
First and foremost, by going for a full detoxification program is ideal even for any healthy individual. It is like spring-cleaning your house. There are so much rubbish accumulated over the years that we need to remove in order for our body to activate it’s self-healing properties, or I should say remove the burden of the body and let our internal machines run smoothly.
So, what is detoxification? There are two types of detox. One is detoxify our liver, blood, kidney, skin and our gut/colon. Second type of detox is infact called colon cleansing. Which is just clear the encrustation (in our gut including the colon. To elaborate further, prolapsed colon is one of the causes of infertility. It caused blockage in the fallopian tube that prevent ovulation from happening. An effective detoxification program starts by removal of toxin follow by rejuvenation of our body by pumping up nutrients to the body due to nutritional deficiency.
Both types of detoxification or colon cleansing programs can be administered by yourself.
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Childbirth is a natural process; it is normal and healthy to be pregnant. But today, many couples face the challenge of infertility. What are the causes of infertility in male and females?
Have you wonder why it’s easy for some women to get pregnant even if they are in their 40’s and other’s can’t conceive even if they are in their 20’s.
Dr Lynn Tan, a naturopathy doctor, a founder of New life International, explained that infertility is nature’s way of protecting the human race. That is because when the body is weak, it is not fit to produce the next generation. Should pregnancy occur the offspring might be weak and sick.
Therefore, infertility is considered abnormal and unhealthy even though the women or men do not fall sick easily does not necessarily mean they are healthy. Right? Building a healthy body ideally at least 6 months prior to conception should be the natural and conscious method to bear a healthy baby. After all, where does genes come from? Babycentre created a chart on Major Causes of Infertility for your reference.
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