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WANT TO FEEL GENUINELY PREPARED FOR BIRTH & BABY?
Explore my premium MotherWise MasterClass - an extraordinarily comprehensive pregnancy, labour, birth, postpartum & newborn education program at www.MotherWise.app
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ME?
I'm a retired senior midwife and best-selling maternity author. Discover my books, articles and other pregnancy, birth & baby resources at www.KathyFray.com
You can also check out my mostly-daily posts:
TikTok: @prenatalwisdom
Instagram: @kathyfray
Enjoying MotherWise? Please follow the podcast and share your favourite episodes - it helps more parents-to-be discover practical, evidence-informed pregnancy, birth & baby wisdom and Real Birth Stories.
WANT TO FEEL GENUINELY PREPARED FOR BIRTH & BABY?
Explore my premium MotherWise MasterClass - an extraordinarily comprehensive pregnancy, labour, birth, postpartum & newborn education program at www.MotherWise.app
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ME?
I'm a retired senior midwife and best-selling maternity author. Discover my books, articles and other pregnancy, birth & baby resources at www.KathyFray.com
You can also check out my mostly-daily posts:
TikTok: @prenatalwisdom
Instagram: @kathyfray
Enjoying MotherWise? Please follow the podcast and share your favourite episodes - it helps more parents-to-be discover practical, evidence-informed pregnancy, birth & baby wisdom and Real Birth Stories.
WANT TO FEEL GENUINELY PREPARED FOR BIRTH & BABY?
Explore my premium MotherWise MasterClass - an extraordinarily comprehensive pregnancy, labour, birth, postpartum & newborn education program at www.MotherWise.app
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ME?
I'm a retired senior midwife and best-selling maternity author. Discover my books, articles and other pregnancy, birth & baby resources at www.KathyFray.com
You can also check out my mostly-daily posts:
TikTok: @prenatalwisdom
Instagram: @kathyfray
Enjoying MotherWise? Please follow the podcast and share your favourite episodes - it helps more parents-to-be discover practical, evidence-informed pregnancy, birth & baby wisdom and Real Birth Stories.
WANT TO FEEL GENUINELY PREPARED FOR BIRTH & BABY?
Explore my premium MotherWise MasterClass - an extraordinarily comprehensive pregnancy, labour, birth, postpartum & newborn education program at www.MotherWise.app
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ME?
I'm a retired senior midwife and best-selling maternity author. Discover my books, articles and other pregnancy, birth & baby resources at www.KathyFray.com
You can also check out my mostly-daily posts:
TikTok: @prenatalwisdom
Instagram: @kathyfray
Enjoying MotherWise? Please follow the podcast and share your favourite episodes - it helps more parents-to-be discover practical, evidence-informed pregnancy, birth & baby wisdom and Real Birth Stories.
WANT TO FEEL GENUINELY PREPARED FOR BIRTH & BABY?
Explore my premium MotherWise MasterClass - an extraordinarily comprehensive pregnancy, labour, birth, postpartum & newborn education program at www.MotherWise.app
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ME?
I'm a retired senior midwife and best-selling maternity author. Discover my books, articles and other pregnancy, birth & baby resources at www.KathyFray.com
You can also check out my mostly-daily posts:
TikTok: @prenatalwisdom
Instagram: @kathyfray
Enjoying MotherWise? Please follow the podcast and share your favourite episodes - it helps more parents-to-be discover practical, evidence-informed pregnancy, birth & baby wisdom and Real Birth Stories.
WANT TO FEEL GENUINELY PREPARED FOR BIRTH & BABY?
Explore my premium MotherWise MasterClass - an extraordinarily comprehensive pregnancy, labour, birth, postpartum & newborn education program at www.MotherWise.app
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ME?
I'm a retired senior midwife and best-selling maternity author. Discover my books, articles and other pregnancy, birth & baby resources at www.KathyFray.com
You can also check out my mostly-daily posts:
TikTok: @prenatalwisdom
Instagram: @kathyfray
Enjoying MotherWise? Please follow the podcast and share your favourite episodes - it helps more parents-to-be discover practical, evidence-informed pregnancy, birth & baby wisdom and Real Birth Stories.
WANT TO FEEL GENUINELY PREPARED FOR BIRTH & BABY?
Explore my premium MotherWise MasterClass - an extraordinarily comprehensive pregnancy, labour, birth, postpartum & newborn education program at www.MotherWise.app
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ME?
I'm a retired senior midwife and best-selling maternity author. Discover my books, articles and other pregnancy, birth & baby resources at www.KathyFray.com
You can also check out my mostly-daily posts:
TikTok: @prenatalwisdom
Instagram: @kathyfray
Enjoying MotherWise? Please follow the podcast and share your favourite episodes - it helps more parents-to-be discover practical, evidence-informed pregnancy, birth & baby wisdom and Real Birth Stories.
Preparing the cervix for dilation is the most important actions you can actively contribute to the success of your labor. What are the actions that will help you reduce birth complications and how these activities help to establish active labor.
Things That May Soften & Ripen A Cervix:
· 35-Weeks Nature’s Sunshine “5W” capsules
· NaturoPharm’s homeophatic “PreBirth” oral spray
· Evening Primrose Oil Capsules (orally and vaginally)
· Sex
· Reflexology
· Acupuncture
· Midwife’s Vaginal Exam of a Stretch & Sweep
· Homeopathy
Activities That Help an Already Soft Ripe Cervix
· Midwife’s Vaginal Exam of a Stretch & Sweep
· Nipple Stimulation
· Orgasms
· Swiss Ball squat-bounce with legs apart
· Hot Spicy Food
· Relaxing bath
Note: For access to my full-length WEBINARS when I dive much deeper into these topics, do check out joining our ESSENTIAL BASICS program which gives you:
* 24-7 Members-only login access to my HUGE online Q&A Library
* Plus ALL my full-length Webinars & Podcasts
* Plus weekly live Webinars when you can ask me any questions
* Plus free copies of my ORGANIC BIRTH and WHY THEY CRY guides
For the cost of 2-3 coffees a week, we can help prevent SO MANY avoidable painful pitfalls!
For full ESSENTIAL BASICS package details including Prices CLICK HERE.
Connect with Kathy Fray:
• kathyfray.com
• Kathy Fray’s Books
• Day-1-Baby Heirloom Layette - Birthing Suite
Enjoyed the Podcast? Be sure to subscribe on iTunes and leave a review. We appreciate your feedback and we’d love for you to help us spread the word!
Today’s Motherwise episode, I will give you an overview of that most sought-after of childbirth labor relief, the Epidural. Why does it increases the chances of needing a traumatic emergency instrumental delivery or dramatic surgical delivery. What are the consequences and how it affects the mother and the baby during childbirth.
Note: For access to my full-length WEBINARS when I dive much deeper into understanding the risks and benefits of Epidural anesthesia, do check out joining our ESSENTIAL BASICS program which gives you:
* 24-7 Members-only login access to my HUGE online Q&A Library
* Plus ALL my full-length Webinars & Podcasts
* Plus weekly live Webinars when you can ask me any questions
* Plus free copies of my ORGANIC BIRTH and WHY THEY CRY guides
For the cost of 2-3 coffees a week, we can help prevent SO MANY avoidable painful pitfalls!
For full ESSENTIAL BASICS package details including Prices CLICK HERE.
Connect with Kathy Fray:
• kathyfray.com
• Kathy Fray’s Books
• Day-1-Baby Heirloom Layette - Birthing Suite
Enjoyed the Podcast? Be sure to subscribe on iTunes and leave a review. We appreciate your feedback and we’d love for you to help us spread the word!
In today’s episode, I will give you a mini-webinar on the two common pharmaceutical pain-relief analgesia used during labor. Why we need to understand the risks in using these drugs. What are the benefits and how it alleviates the pain during childbirth.
The Two Labor Pharmaceutical Analgesic:
· Nitrous Oxide (entenox Laughing Gas)
· Opioids ( e.g. Pethidine, Morphine, Diamorphine)
Note: For access to my full-length WEBINARS when I dive much deeper into understanding more about the risks and benefits of these two drugs, do check out joining our ESSENTIAL BASICS program which gives you:
* 24-7 Members-only login access to my HUGE online Q&A Library
* Plus ALL my full-length Webinars & Podcasts
* Plus weekly live Webinars when you can ask me any questions
* Plus free copies of my ORGANIC BIRTH and WHY THEY CRY guides
For the cost of 2-3 coffees a week, we can help prevent SO MANY avoidable painful pitfalls!
For full ESSENTIAL BASICS package details including Prices CLICK HERE.
Connect with Kathy Fray:
• kathyfray.com
• Kathy Fray’s Books
• Day-1-Baby Heirloom Layette - Birthing Suite
Enjoyed the Podcast? Be sure to subscribe on iTunes and leave a review. We appreciate your feedback and we’d love for you to help us spread the word!
From the publisher's feed
Welcome to MOTHERWISE: Pregnancy, Birth, Babies & Real Birth Stories with midwife and best-selling maternity author Kathy Fray.
Drawing on years as a senior 24/7 caseloading…
If you want to get empowered by feeling like you know “everything about everything,” then buckle up and enjoy the ride! Knowledge changes outcomes, and this is YOU investing in giving your Baby and Yourself the very best journey possible.
The Pregnancy, Labor & Newborn episodes are hugely informative, plus you can listen to many Real Birth Stories, taking you behind the scenes to review clinical notes from actual labors during Kathy’s years in practice - the beautiful, the unexpected, the challenging and sometimes extraordinary - with clients’ personal details changed where necessary to protect their privacy.
If your goal is the most beautifully extraordinary and least traumatic birth and baby experience possible, you’re in the right place. And to really learn “everything about everything,” join the MotherWise Tribe at www.MotherWise.app to access Kathy's premium online prenatal education program. To learn more about Kathy and her books & resources, you can also visit www.KathyFray.com.

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