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This is one of the most common reasons for transfer. The exhaustion that days or even weeks of these intense sensations brings is a lot if you don't have the tools to navigate. Get a heating pad, a big jug of water, some snacks, a warm bath, a glass of wine.... whatever you can do to make yourself stay comfortable and relaxed enough to go back to sleep if it starts in the middle of the night. During the day if you can nap when they slow down...  badass! If you know you are experiencing what I am talking about, try to set your bed time a little earlier like 6 or 7 so you can get 3-5 good hours of sleep before those labor hormones kick back in and keep you awake. Whatever you do, don't bounce on your birth ball or curb walk or try to rush it along. This is a very natural and physiological way birth starts. Usually it means the baby is trying to get into a little better position so I always say do an inversion and some side ly release and shoot if you can do some stretching and prenatal yoga that can help. Breath work, meditation, trusting that the start and stop of labor IN ALL STAGES and PHASES is normal! Allow those pauses to rest. Let your mind go. Don't time those contractions. Trust your body and baby are doing what they need. You just need someone comforting to massage you and get you to be able to zen out or zone out on cat naps! If you have a doula reach out! You will KNOW when it is active labor. You won't be able to hold conversations and it will take all of your will power to get through each surge. This is also why I say don't invite too many people (even your best friends) to your birth too soon. I say give the doula the numbers to any extra support people you want around you at your birth and let your doula call them when you are really in the throws of labor (if you decide you still want those people because 9 out of 10 times a mom will change her mind). Watching eyes can be distracting and putting yourself on a clock will stall everything out. So try to rest and ignore until you can't anymore. You got this!

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I would hear this word all the time when I was pregnant with my 1st. I never fully understood it until I witnessed pregnancy after pregnancy or birth after birth and I would witness a mom either get in her own way and have to transfer or truly surrender and magic would happen. This all starts before conception! Learning how to truly trust your body is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. Not just for birth, but for your overall health and healing journey. Our body is so wise and you add a baby to that and you have two wise beings working together. Birth WORKS without help 99% of the time. Yes sometimes we need help and when that time arises it is crucial you have a practitioner that trusts your body as much as you do. Educate yourself to the point where you can FULLY SURRENDER when the time comes.

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-Hormonal Acne
-Baby's 1st Cold virus what to do
-Gunky Eyes/Clogged Tear Ducts
-Witching Hours
-Hungry vs Gas

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Austin Area craniosacral chiro https://www.artandsciencehealing.com/

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This is something as mothers we experience and it's not talked about openly because I think as a society we have to appear to have it all together as mothers. Let me tell you as a doula and lactation counselor, we do NOT have it all together and THAT IS SO SO SO NORMAL! I hope this episode helps you feel seen and heard. Silent resentment (as I call it) and postpartum rage are real. This can be a mix of lack of sleep, hormones, a new crazy responsibility, and a never ending mental load that just decides to pop up right when a baby is born. ed 
If you can find other mothers and have these real and open discussions and feel truly seen and heard, that is where you will find your village! I'm here to listen if you ever need to vent! 

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From water breaking to days and days of that annoying prodromal labor. I'm here to guide you through what to do in each situation. I also touch on induction... including natural induction methods. Whether you are doing a natural birth or hospital birth it is important to know that no two births are the same and your practitioner should not treat you or your body like a text book "situation". Empower yourself with education.

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Please please understand that I believe EVERY WOMAN deserves to have the most beautiful birth experience. This episode may make me sound pretentious or maybe a little judgy and for that I apologize. I am only human.

As a doula, I believe the work we do should be out of passion and trust. Helping couples during very vulnerable times and very beautiful times. I am a very energy sensitive human and witnessing abuse literally sends my nervous system into crazy sick mode.
I was finding that after a few hospital births I would get very sick. I would feel exhausted and couldn't be present for my family.

This is not how birth work should be. You should feel a great sense of gratitude for the birth you just assisted (even the ones that end a not so favorable way because we can't control everything) If you know you and your family did EVERYTHING they could and still ended up not having the exact birth on their birth plan... there is still a sense of relief and pride. The mom will tend to still love her birth experience and not have trauma and you as a doula will be able to sleep after knowing your mama and you tried everything.

When I interview clients now I look for their trust in themselves. How trusting are they of the physiological birth left undisturbed and how educated are they? Then I want to see if energetically we connect. Birth is VERY INTIMATE. You need to connect on all sorts of energetic levels so mom relaxes when you arrive. My clients become my sisters. I am their sister, mother, helper, coach, and pain medicine. I want my presence to be empowering and assuring. During the pregnancy we develop a relationship of trust and sisterhood. I help her release any residual fears so that by the time labor starts she is empowered and knows how to FULLY SURRENDER. (upcoming podcast episode)

I am booked fully until next summer but if you are in the Austin Area and need a great doula these 4 ladies are incredible advocates and friends. Check out their instagrams to get a feel for who they are and how they work.

@ladoulagabs
@morgsthemothergoose
@mariyathedoula.atx
@wildlotusbirthwork

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From the sound bowls and gongs that her amazing husband was playing, to the indigenous midwife (student midwife) that attended this birth, Erin's birth was nothing short of a ceremony. How all birth should be in my opinion. Erin's birth started with PROM (premature rupture of the membranes ... aka her water breaking) and thankfully I had taken many courses on how to assist birth that begins like this. (Thank you spinning babies)  One of the MAIN things I knew with PROM is that it happens in 10-13% of all births and labor contractions will usually begin within 12-24 hours and as long as you are staying hydrated there is no danger (hospital would say otherwise). Limiting or not doing cervical checks is a great way to prevent infection (which is the main risk once your water breaks) so we did just that... trusted her body and her baby and allowed her body to start laboring when it was ready.
She did incredible relaxing into trust (with ceremony experience she was no stranger to releasing fear and letting go) and getting rest. This set her up to have the incredible birth that followed! Can't wait for you to hear it. Enjoy!

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A guided meditation to help you relax and trust your body. Do this meditation anytime you are feeling anxious or need guidance.

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Enoy!

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Questions and Answers!

-Hormonal Acne- What causes it? When does it show up? What do I do about it?

-My baby's first cold... what can I do?

-Gunky eyes... clogged duct or infections what can I do?

-Witching Hours- What are they? How do I handle them?

-Is it Gas or are they hungry?

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This episode touches on childhood wounds, trauma in our childhood and how it affects us as adults, how to recognize and navigate through trauma wounds, forms of attachment and how that connects to our childhood, and much much much more! Christin empowers people to break through trauma and LIBERATE themselves from past emotional wounds so they can confidently claim a life of emotional FREEDOM now! To work with Christin please visit her website at https://www.virtuousheality.com/

If you want to research more on some of the things we touched on please visit the links below! 

Basic Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) information:

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/fastfact.html

Gottman Institute website (regarding their research):

Overview of research:  https://www.gottman.com/about/research/

Detailed Research Results:  https://www.gottman.com/about/research/couples/

Book Referenced:

Developmental Trauma: The Game Changer in the Mental Health Profession by Barry and Janae Weinhold

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