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Adjusting to Motherhood May Take Longer than You Think (and that’s OK)

By Kylie McConville — 2020

Here’s how long it takes for new moms to work out their new routines and feel the confidence they’ll need to navigate any situation, according to a study.

Read on www.thebump.com

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What to Know About Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP)

Research shows that utilizing mindfulness during pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond may actually reduce stress and lessen anxiety. And it may even lead to healthier newborns with fewer developmental issues as they grow up.

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Sherri Gordon
2021
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The Benefits of a Mindful Pregnancy

New research suggests that including mindfulness skills in childbirth education can help first-time mothers cope with their fears.

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Juli Fraga
2017
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Pregnancy and Body Image

Pregnancy causes many changes in your body. Some of these changes can be difficult to deal with or very uncomfortable. Also, after giving birth, your body may take a while to get back to the way it was before, or it may never completely return to the way it looked before pregnancy.

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WomensHealth.gov
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How Acupuncture Can Help Pregnant Women

In recent years, acupuncture has grown in popularity as an alternative therapy during pregnancy to treat a range of discomforts. If you're pregnant and interested in trying acupuncture, you may wonder if it really works—and have concerns about potential dangers.

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Chaunie Brusie
2020
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Self-Hypnosis: Alternative Anesthesia for Childbirth

The purpose of this article is to inform nurses about the use of self-hypnosis in childbirth. Hypnosis is a focused form of concentration.

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Debra Ketterhagen, Leona VandeVusse and Margaret Ann Berner
2002
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Unexpected Consequences: Women’s Experiences of a Self-Hypnosis Intervention to Help with Pain Relief During Labour

Self-hypnosis is becoming increasingly popular as a means of labour pain management. Previous studies have produced mixed results.

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Kenneth Finlayson, Soo Downe, Susan Hinder, Helen Carr, Helen Spiby and Peter Whorwell
2015
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Why Modern Indigenous Parents Are Turning to Traditional Pregnancy Practices

Like many other First Nations and Native American parents of our generation across Canada and the USA, we are doing everything we can to reclaim culturally significant pregnancy and birthing practices.

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Chelsey Luger
2020
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How to Prepare for Birth: Top Tips from a Doula

"Doula" is a Greek term meaning "woman who serves," and it was appropriated to describe the women who lend themselves to serve birthing mothers. A once-marginalized profession, it is increasing in numbers and popularity.

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Latham Thomas and Wanda Medina
2014
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Latham Thomas Is a Woman on a Mission

She says attention needs to be paid to ending systemic racism throughout all of Black people’s lives—as well as in their safety in birth. And given Latham’s line of work, that last piece is a topic that’s particularly important to her.

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Tonya Russell
2020
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Mama Glow’s Latham Thomas Shares Her Vision for the Future of Prenatal and Postpartum Care

Mama Glow founder Latham Thomas has been trying to revolutionize maternal care in the U.S. since she gave birth to her own son 17 years ago.

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Amy Shoenthal
2020
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