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New Contract Writing Workshops for Doulas coming to Brooklyn April 26th. 

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HOW TO HIRE A DOULA FOR BIRTH AND POSTPARTUM!

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I challenge all #pregnant folks to spend 8 hours of their ENTIRE pregnancy interviewing at least 4 providers to find the absolute best fit for them. 

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ps- I offer these consultations online, too! 

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PREPARING AND PRACTICING FOR BIRTH Rachel Yellin is the founder of Yes To Birth! Rachel teaches comprehensive childbirth education and birth techniques classes in San Francisco and LIVE online. She also created the Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond Audio Relaxation Program. I highly recommend you take her classes and use her audio program if you want to feel more confident, prepared, and relaxed for birth. 

Click here to learn more about her classes (link to https://rachelyellin.com/childbirth-classes/) and her audio relaxation program (link to https://rachelyellin.com/pregnancy-relaxation-meditation-program/). 

To purchase her audio program only, use this link (you need to grab your personal affiliate link from your affiliate area on my website or just link to the audio program page) and enter my name EMILY FLYNN to receive 20% off.

To register for her childbirth classes, use the promotion code “25BUCKSOFF” to receive a $25 discount and list “EMILY FLYNN” as the referral source. Her audio program is included in the price of the childbirth classes, so only buy the audios if you can’t take her classes. 

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New monitors, marketed by startups such as Owlet and Sproutling, are sold as consumer devices and not medical devices. This distinction means they don't have to go through testing to prove that they really keep babies safe. And studies of at-home monitoring in the 1980s and 1990s found no evidence that tracking a baby's pulse or breathing could prevent sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), which is the sudden, unexplained death of an infant, usually during sleep.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/think-the-latest-baby-monitors-are-a-good-idea-think-again-experts-say/

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When given a choice of Hospital A (35% c-section rate, 10 miles from home) vs. Hospital B (15% c-section rate, 30 miles from home), 40% chose Hospital A. Younger women and first time mothers are less likely to think that the hospital they select will impact their own chances of c-section (13% vs. 31% for 18-22 years old vs >35 years old, 16% vs. 22% for first time mothers vs multiparous mothers, P=0.01).

The Gap Between How Mothers’ Choose Their Providers and How We Measure Quality

Read more at https://academyhealth.confex.com/academyhealth/2016arm/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/10356

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This applies to early infancy as well! 

I find myself really working on ways to help families resist the urge to massively overstimulate their newborns for the sake of “development” instead of just being present and calm. Boredom is not a curse or destructive to learning, in fact, it might actually help.