Natural Baby Wipes!

Natural Baby Wipes

2 cups warm purified water
1-1/2 tsp. natural plain castile soap (Dr. Bronner's for example)
1-1/12 tsp. natural baby oil or lotion
60 premium half-sheet paper towels

Mix liquid together, then pour over towels a few at a time. Store in an airtight container.

~ Oklahoma Midwives Association
Excerpted from Midwifery Today’s Tricks of the Trade, Vol. III
http://www.midwiferytoday.com/products/01TT3.htm

Coping with Loss of Pregnancy or Newborn

A great article about a topic which is often not given enough credit...

Coping with Loss of Pregnancy or Newborn

Waiting for Baby

"Waiting for Baby" Meditation

This a great meditation exercise to remember to go with the flow of things

-Sit in easy pose facing your partner with your knees touching
-Put your hands out with palms touching
-Push your left hand into your partners right, and have your partner push his/her left hand into your right
-Sing: Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream
-Continue to sing together, out loud and have fun with it - laugh and smile

Your baby can hear you!

Do this for 3-5 minutes every day as you prepare for birth

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Healthy Moms, Happy Babies offers Doula, Lactation and Counseling Services for expectant and postpartum Mamas!

Joy

What Gives You Joy?

Life will not, of itself, necessarily grant you joy. Life will give you
opportunities and challenges. It will offer you friends and present
you with experiences. It will ask you to work and require you to
feel, but it will not, necessarily, give you joy.

Joy is a state of the soul, the feeling beyond feeling which allows
us to know that it is right to be alive, that our living has meaning
and that we belong.

Certain people and experiences, certain spiritual disciplines, some
words we utter, certain movements that we make with our bodies,
have the capacity to bring us inexplicably and beautifully into the
state of immeasurable joy. Today, allow yourself to discover, to
seek, and to embrace those things that give you joy.

Yesterday I had the opportunity to talk with an OB/GYN who has been in practice for over 50 years. We chatted about everything birth, including the fact that he is stunned about the current C-Section rate. I was blown away when he told me that when he was practicing, they would be "written up" if your personal C-Section rate was more than 4%. WOW! Have times changed...