Joy in Birthing

Excerpt from Painless Childbirth: An Empowering Journey Through Pregnancy and Birth

ABOUT LIFE’S TRANSFORMATION

Sometime this week you may be able to find out whether you’re pregnant. For the most accurate results, wait until the end of the week to take a home pregnancy test. (You can try one now if you like, but you’re more likely to get a correct result a week past your expected period.)

If the test is positive, rejoice, and take a moment to voice your gratitude. Now it is time to share it with your partner and/or a trusted friend. There are many ways to celebrate, but make sure you make it memorable.

If you’re taking any medications — prescription or over-the-counter — ask your primary your care provider whether it’s safe to keep taking them. And be sure to alert your caregiver to any other issues of concern.

The next six weeks are magical to your baby’s development. The rudimentary versions of the placenta and umbilical cord, which deliver nourishment and oxygen to your baby, are already functioning. Through the placenta, your baby is exposed to what you take into your body, so make sure it’s good for both of you.
If your home pregnancy test is negative, take another at five weeks if you still haven’t gotten your period. Many urine tests are not sensitive enough to detect a pregnancy at four weeks.

In the next eight weeks, all systems, organs, and tissues are put into place. If the embryo survives the next four to eight weeks, chances are the pregnancy will go all the way through to nine months. (Get your self-hypnosis CD Stay Baby Stay to hold on to your baby in the first trimester)

How could anything ephemeral as the mother’s state of being have a lasting impact so very early, when there is just one or two or twelve cells?

“In a Cartesian framework, the size of something is related to its importance and significance. Recalling chaos theory’s ‘sensitive dependence on initial conditions,’ it makes sense that a very positive, or very negative, environmental message would bear the most pervasive influence upon a tiny, emerging system, considering that each cell division will replicate that cell’s knowledge again and again”
-MARCY AXNESS, PH.D

 

 

 

Painless Childbirth is a Scientific Reality *

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*A study conducted by CL Pasero and R Britt (August 1998). Managing Pain During Labor, published in the American Journal of Nursing 98:10-11, reports that indeed a painless childbirth is a reality for as many as 45,000 WOMEN EACH YEAR IN AMERICA. One of the universal laws states: if one person can do it, it can be done by others.