Break the Fear Tension Pain Cycle for a Better Birth
The fear tension pain cycle reveals how fear, tension, and pain feed off each other creating an ever increasingly painful birth. This cycle is something parents need to understand when …
The fear tension pain cycle reveals how fear, tension, and pain feed off each other creating an ever increasingly painful birth. This cycle is something parents need to understand when …
No woman should have to give birth alone. However, sometimes life just deals us a bad hand and unfortunately, new parents are not exempt. If, for whatever reason, you need …
Preventing tearing during birth requires a group effort. There are helpful things a woman can do, and there are helpful things a care provider can do, too. However, there are …
Birth trauma happens when someone experiences a deeply distressing or disturbing birth. Sometimes birth trauma can result from a physically traumatic experience, but more often than not, birth trauma leaves …
Tearing during birth is a common fear of expectant mothers, with good reason, as a local OB once told me that the average first time mother experiences a second degree …
Whether you’re dead set on a natural childbirth or just want to see how things go, use Mother Rising’s tips for natural birth to decrease your pain (no matter what’s on …
Nobody wants to have a car baby. I’ve never read a birth plan that expressed the desire to go into labor, hop in the car, have a baby on the …
This blog post is all about how to get through painful labor before an epidural. This blog post isn’t about whether or not a woman should get an epidural. Maybe …
If you’re pregnant again and need to know how to prepare for another baby after a traumatic birth this post is for you. I hope that the words below will …
According to some, contractions feel like the abdominal cramping you get with bad diarrhea that rhythmically come and go, strengthening in intensity and eventually become longer, closer together and more intense/painful …
Pregnancy and becoming a parent are huge undertakings and a complete paradigm shift. Understandably so, some parents find themselves experiencing denial about pregnancy. If you’re experiencing denial, you may be …
In my childbirth classes, on the night we talk about how to push during labor and delivery, these fantastic pushing questions come up almost every single time. Since everybody is …