by Jolene Hamann | Jun 1, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter, Uncategorized
Click to launch the original Beginnings Bulletin: May 2018 Newsletter PDF Begin plain text newsletter — COMING SOON: • Open House Celebration and Birth Center Tours • Class Options • Community Events INSIDE THIS ISSUE: • Meet the Midwife 2 • 2017 Birth...
by Jolene Hamann | Apr 18, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized
“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” – Laura Stavoe...
by Jolene Hamann | Apr 18, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized
Let’s be straight from the start, the thought of a home birth scared the crap out of me. I’m a traditionalist when it comes to birth (or I was) – mother under heavy sedation, feet up in stirrups, father pacing in the waiting room smoking a Marlboro, very Ward and June...
by Jolene Hamann | Apr 18, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized
“When you destroy midwives, you also destroy a body of knowledge that is shared by women, that can’t be put together by a bunch of surgeons or a bunch of male obstetricians, because physiologically, birth doesn’t happen the same way around surgeons, medically trained...
by Jolene Hamann | Apr 18, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized
You’ll often hear me say I “catch” babies. That’s because the mom, the one in labor, does all the work – MOM delivers her baby – the midwife catches. It makes it sound like someone else did all the work if “they delivered” your baby. I’ve only delivered four babies –...
by Jolene Hamann | Apr 18, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized
Belly binding can be helpful for many different reasons in your postpartum days. It can promote the shrinking of the uterus (involution) that is supposed to happen after the birth. It also helps support your back and your abdominal muscles – they are weaker after...
