Birth Guides

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Permalink Reply by Cindy Lerner on September 26, 2009 at 6:12pm

Gentle Birth Choices in another good one

Permalink Reply by EmilyK on October 9, 2009 at 4:05am

I think that Ina May's Guide definitely opened my eyes to some new things. The concept of "sphincter law" for one, that I can't relax one and tightening another, and that they relax better in the privacy of my own home. Also she had this one line about a woman who compared vaginal birth to pushing an orange out of a nostril, and Ina May said, no, it's nothing like that! A nostril wasn't designed to push out anything more than some snot, a vagina was designed to fit a baby. I loved that. I chanted it in my head during pushing with my second. And you know what, I didn't tear with an 8lb11oz baby, even though I tore with my first who was only 7lb1. Awesome what the mind can effect in the body.