Sweet Peas, Pods & Papas: All About Birth, B@@bs & Babies
Krystyna Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2016 4:47 PM
We get this question a lot, and it came up again when we taught class on Friday evening. The most common answer uses the acronym "5-1-1".
When you have this pattern established: 5 ~ Contractions arefiveminutes apart 1 ~ Contractions are lastingoneminute 1 ~ This pattern has been established for
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Bruss Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Tuesday, November 17, 2015 6:12 AM
Bruss taught class last week. As is our custom, he writes the next blog post as a follow-up to his class. Here are his thoughts on an original question he was asked last week:
I received a question from a student that
I've never had before. Specifically, I was asked, what was the single
most important thing I've learned from our first labor. What a great
question that was.
As a coach, going into the pregnancy and labor for
the first time, you don't know what you don't know. |
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Krystyna Bowman, AAHCC with Grace Burnham: Posted on Friday, September 18, 2015 1:19 PM
Grace Burnham works in partnership with Amanda Santana of Enchanted Desert Doulas. I have the pleasure of having known both of them for the last three years - they are both talented and have much more to offer their clients beyond their doula skills.
SPB: When was the first time you heard the word "doula"? GB:I was 19 the first time I heard the word doula. I was thinking about massage school, and I was reading a massage magazine and when I saw the term “massage doula". I looked it up right away and I knew that was something I wanted to do. |
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman: Posted on Tuesday, July 09, 2013 6:56 AM
We have been teaching Bradley Method® classes
long enough to have the privilege of having alumni students come back and take
another series as they are expecting their next child. We have one of those couples in our current
class, and something came up in class that made me reflect on our births. The class topic last week was stages of labor.
We talked about the markers of the different stages of labor, how to
identify “ transition” that typically happens between first stage(cervical
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC and Jenni Froment, ICAN Phoenix Chapter Co-Leader: Posted on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8:50 AM
 When it comes to pregnancy, labor and birth, the vast majority of the writing
and expectation for preparation is geared at the mother. One of the reason’s we chose The Bradley
Method® is because it recognizes that the father may also want to play a role
in the birth of the child and Bradley™ prepares the couple for labor to welcome
their child, not just the mother. The same holds true when planning a Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC). If the partner was present for the first
birth, they also experienced varying degrees of stress: watching their loved
one undergo major surgery, the physical recovery period, and the emotional
recovery period, which might have been longer than the physical recovery. |
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Bruss Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 9:02 AM
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Today's post is about breastfeeding from the male perspective. Please read the
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Posted on Friday, July 06, 2012 8:07 AM
 | Standing position Leaning forward is a position for managing back labor - it helps get a posterior baby with the hard part of baby's head against mom's back off of her sacrum and ease some of the nerve pain that makes back labor so uncomfortable. |
|  | Rocking or Rhythmic Motion Some couples find it feels better to rock and sway in rhythm to her breathing - obviously not in labor in this picture - it's the closest I could find in my images! |
|  | Seated position Another choice for back labor that has mom leaning forward; also good for rocking and rhythmic motion when you use a birth ball or a rocking chair. This particular scenario allows access to massage mom at many different points. |
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Friday, June 08, 2012 7:27 PM
Here are some of the ways we recommend our students
manage their labor without analgesics or anesthetics. Even when they are used in labor, we are so happy that our couples use them as tools to manage a long labor and their children are born nursing vigorously and with high APGAR scores.
Mom and Coach are informed. Through the course of The Bradley Method® class series,
parents are taught about what to expect as “normal” in labor, what the
variations on normal might be, the different options and interventions in
labor, and how to recognize a complication that warrants a change in the plan
for a Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby outcome. |
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Bruss Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 5:01 PM
Coach's CornerLabor readiness
With The Bradley Method®, the labor Coach has lots of responsibilities.
During pregnancy, Coach must ensure that Mom's diet is great and that she's
doing regular exercise. Coach is
encouraged to work with Mom on various relaxation techniques and practice.
These are added to the weekly Bradley™ classes (12-week course) to absorb
a wealth of information on pregnancy, birth and beyond.
But it doesn't stop there.
There are Coaches that tell me, 'I'm not sure what to do. |
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2012 4:52 PM
 We have now had 28 students complete our Bradley Method®
classes and birth their babies through seven class series – pretty awesome to
know that 28 youngsters are blessed with parents who took the time to give them
healthy pregnancies and Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby births.
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