Stephanie Stanley, ICAN Phoenix and Krystyna Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 7:18 AM
This was in posted April 2012 - updated April 2016Uterine rupture is a topic that came up when I was pregnant with
Otter that I was not ready to allow into my consciousness until she was
safely in our arms. After enough time
had passed and we have proven to ourselves that homebirth can be a safe option
when a person is healthy and low risk, I am ready to write about it.
I gave Stephanie Stanley, former facilitator of the East Valley
ICAN group, byline credit for this because I am using her research from a
uterine rupture presentation she did at a meeting for my post today. |
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Annika Marshall: Posted on Friday, April 15, 2016 1:10 AM
April is Cesarean Awareness Month. As such, the blog topics this month will focus around cesarean birth journeys, and options that cesarean birth warriors have for subsequent pregnancies.
If you would like to submit your story for our In Their Own Words series, please send your submission to krystyna{at}sweetpeabirths{dot}com.
Here is Annika's story of her primary cesarean, and her VBAC journey with her second child:
When you are pregnant with
your first child you have all these wonderful naive concepts about birth…well,
at least I did. |
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Krystyna Bowman, AAHCC with Stephanie Stanley, Give-Birth; and Jenni Fromment, ICAN Phoenix: Posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 12:18 AM
April is Cesarean Awareness Month. Today I am bringing you a virtual interview with local Phoenix ICAN Chapter co-leader, Jenni Froment, as well as a VLOG with Stephanie Stanley, founder and instructor at Give-Birth.org.
I interviewed Stephanie abouther childbirth classeslast week. She came back to sit down with me and talk about the mission of ICAN, and we talked a little about peer-to-peer support. Here is what she had to say about this amazing group:
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Sweet Pea Mamas: Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:10 PM
There are no mommy wars on this page. Every birth is acknowledged, as our tag line is, "Celebrating every Sweet Pea and their birth." However your child enters the world, it is the day of their birth, as well as the birth of a Mother and Father. If you need help processing your birth, please email me at krystyna{at}sweetpeabirths{dot}com and I would be happy to send you a resource list. Cesareans: This Coach still got to cut the cord - you can preserve some elements of your birth plan, even if it plays out differently than you prepared for. |
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Compiled by Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Friday, April 03, 2015 12:42 PM
Last year I wrote an article on evidence-based practice for
The Clarion, the newsletter published by ICAN and sent to it’s
subscribers (Spring 2014). I read A LOT of documents and studies in preparation for that!
Since it is Cesarean Awareness Month, I thought it fitting to share those with you. The information shared below is accessible to all care providers who care for women in their childbearing years.
If you would like a Trial of Labor with a subsequent pregnancy after a cesarean birth, then inform yourself about what the professionals are saying. |
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Monday, January 19, 2015 3:58 PM
If you follow us on social media, you probably know that
Cassandra, our guest blogger and social media maven, is expecting her second
Sweet Pea any day now. As a matter of
fact, she is 41 weeks today.
When we were corresponding last week, she sent a plea that
most pregnant women in their last weeks of pregnancy send: “I need something; grounding, reassurance; I’m not sure!”
I sent her some ideas to help pass the time until it’s “real
McCoy” labor…she will be writing a post about that later in the week (maybe! |
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Friday, March 22, 2013 8:33 AM
I am so excited to announce a monitrice service for couples that want
to have a natural birth outcome in a hospital setting. Jennifer Hoeprich, LM, is now extending her
skill set to families who want to stay home as long as possible before heading
to a hospital for their birth.
What is a monitrice? A monitrice is a professional, medically trained, labor support person, who
provides clinical monitoring within the home environment, including cervical
dilation exams, auscultation of fetal heart tones, and monitoring of general
well-being of mother and baby, during labor. |
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Bruss Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2012 1:55 PM
Coaches CornerToday's post is from Bruss' perspective. He led class on Monday and told a story he had never shared in a class setting before...here it is along with an introduction that shares the line of thinking that went along with the story...
An important part of The Bradley Method® (some say the most important) is relaxation. The superficial view I had of relaxation going into our first Bradley class and subsequent birth was that of *physical* relaxation. Krystyna and I were/are regular Yoga practitioners and my mental picture of relaxation was the final Yoga posture where one lays prone on the floor after a hard workout where the only option is total physical relaxation.
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2012 3:32 PM
Our students are coming down the home stretch in their
pregnancies!! We invited some alumni
from our last class to come share their birth story tonight so that our
students could hear from the parents fresh from the birth experience.
Their story brought up an interesting point that was echoed
by some of our current students. What do
you do when uninvited guests show up at your birth? How do you keep them from coming in the first
place?
This is a touchy subject – how do you tell your loving
family or your devoted friend that this is not the time when you want to see
them? |
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Krystyna Robles-Bowman, AAHCC: Posted on Friday, January 27, 2012 5:15 PM
I finally got approval from all the families to post the
Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby pictures. Here
is a brief synopsis of their outcomes along with a birth story from one of the
moms.
All of these are babies from our Fall 2011 Bradley Method®
series. Angelika got to be one of these
babies, too! The families enrolled in
our classes with the intention of having natural births. However, all of them took to heart our
entreaty to evaluate all their decision points with the Healthy Mom, Healthy
Baby filter. |
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