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Peaceful Birthing

 

Pat combines over 40 years of experience with pregnancy and childbirth to provide Birth Counseling, support and education to enhance pre-birth health. Planning for a healthy pregnancy begins before conception, and Pat feels this is a critical time to assess health needs and prepare mentally, physically and spiritually for pregnancy.  Pat is a certified Hypnotherapist, and provides HypnoFertility Therapy for women seeking a pregnancy.  Pat also teaches HypnoBirthing® a program to help women feel prepared to work with their labor with a positive approach.  She encourages balance in lifestyle choices.
The rate of preterm birth is very high in the United State, even though we are an progressive and well educated country. The rate that premature babies are born in our country has not changed, while in other nations the premature birth rate has declined.  I am frustrated and embarrassed by these statistics and feel that stress during pregnancy is a major contributor to preterm labor and birth.
Many of the severe problems in our society such as anxious children and youth violence, can be improved by empowering parents to take more responsibility for the health of your unborn child. Many can identify the impact of stress upon other pregnancy complications, and complications of labor, birth and postpartum. Physical and mental abuse in pregnancy, can affect a mother's health in many different ways. Tobacco and alcohol use have life long effects.
Recommended Pregnancy Books
Conceive:
  1. To become pregnant with (offspring).
  2. To form or develop in the mind; devise: conceive a plan to increase profits.
  3. To apprehend mentally; understand: couldn't conceive the meaning of that sentence.
  4. To be of the opinion that; think: didn't conceive such a tragedy could occur.
  5. To begin or originate in a specific way: a political movement conceived in the ferment of the 1960s.
The book called Prenatal Parenting is an inspiration for families having babies. The program provides opportunities for creating a  healthy, happy baby.  Taking the opportunity to spend a few minutes throughout  the day communicating with your unborn baby. Fear in pregnancy can be reduced as moms become more connected with the intelligence of the unborn baby. Below are the 10 Principles of the Prenatal Parenting Program.
  • Your unborn child has more nerve cells and many more connections among within its brain than an adult.
  • Your baby shares your emotional experience.
  • You are the architect of your child’s brain!
  • As your babies mother, you cannot hide your most intimate thoughts and feelings from your growing baby.
  • Your baby has memories of his experiences before birth.
  • Your baby communicates with his mother biochemically as well as through his senses.
  • Your baby can feel, hear, smell, taste and see before birth
  • Your baby develops consciousness and a sense of self, separate from her mother before birth.
  • Your babies in utero experience sculpts the architecture of her brain, which determines her behavior after birth and probably for the rest of her life.
  • Each infant is born with a distinct temperament that may require specific parenting techniques for proper nurturing after birth.
  • Your baby is born looking for meaningful relationships and knows how to develop them.