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Saturday February 20, 2010 BirthNetwork Chicago presents a film screening of two short documentaries: Laboring Under and Illusion: Mass Media Childbirth vs. The Real Thing and It’s My Body, My Baby, My Birth. 2:45 pm – 6:00 pm at Mother Me, 3717 N Ravenswood Suite 213 Chicago, IL Directions and Map Following the films, all are invited [...] I came home late tonight to a quiet house after spending the last 26+ hours providing labor support. Partner and kids are already tucked in bed for the night – so my birthday has passed by here for my family without me. And I am kind of sad about that. We will have to make [...] When we are pregnant, most women “know” on some more or less abstract level that this will eventually end with a birth. Chances are good that around 30 weeks or so, the thought that you will actually have to go through this birth yourself and that you will have to open and push this baby [...] In my birth preparation classes I often discuss the concept of “entrainment“, or the phenomenon that takes place when two forces influence each other so that, over time, they move in the same way or with the same rhythm. When one force is stronger it more easily pulls the smaller force in line with itself. One [...] |
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