Online Birth Classes Special!

New Lower Prices on the Co-Creative Birthing Circle!!!

In order to make quality holistic online childbirth education available and affordable to more expecting parents we have new lower prices on all our Co-Creative Birth Circles!

Whoohoo!

Mama's and Papa's to-be this is over 50% off the valued price on both the Birthing Circle and the Deluxe Circle.

The Deluxe Circle includes the comprehensive Birthing Circle and extras, PLUS personalized Phone Consultations with Kara Spencer and an extraordinary package of Birth Books and Gifts sent directly to you by mail.

Check it out and enroll today to co-create your optimal birth experience!!!

Co-Creative Birth Circle Specials - Enrollment Page

Online Birthing Class Contest

Join the Co-Creative Birthing Circle: Online Natural Childbirth Education for Parents and Win!

Enroll in the Co-Creative Birthing Circle or Deluxe Circle between now and September 15, 2008 and you will be eligible to win a prize package for Nursing Families! All members who enroll are automatically entered for one chance to win.

You can win a Medela Harmony Breastpump, Medela Breastmilk Feeding & Storage Set, Medela Comfort Nursing Bra, Medela Cotton Nursing Pads, and a pair of BabyLegs Leg Warmers! That's over $100 worth of gifts for breastfeeding families!

Join the circle today and empower yourself for a healthy pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with the multi-media online conscious birthing class! You will have access to the comprehensive Co-Creative Birthing Class, the Birthing Circle Discussion Forum, the Mamatoto Cookbook, the Birth Story Library, videos, articles, resources, and more!

Online Birthing Classes for 21st Century Parents

Announcing....

The Co-Creative Birthing Circle

Online Natural Childbirth Education Classes for 21st Century Parents

at the Maia Institute of Co-Creative Healing

 

The Co-Creative Birthing Circle is a new, multi-media, comprehensive, online childbirth education class for expecting parents. This comprehensive class features an additional Birth Story Collection and Birth Circle Forum. The Deluxe Birth Circles includes private email and phone birth consultations, essential birth books, and a free bonus gift.

Learn to co-create the best birth possible for you and your baby with nature and spirit. Discover proven ways to natural ease labor pain. Empower yourself with traditional birthing wisdom and evidence-based maternity care research. Trust in birth, your body, and your baby.

The Co-Creative Birthing Circle features: 

• Natural Childbirth Education 24/7
• 7 Multi-Media Online Lessons
• Articles, Pictures, Videos, & Resource Links
  
• Over 40 videos on birth and natural parenting
• More than 150 links to the best articles and resources on natural pregnancy & birth
• Recommended Activities
• Birth Circle Discussion Forum
  
• PLUS: Birth Story Library
• PLUS: Birth Humor

The mission of Co-Creative Birthing is to create healthy mothers, babies, and families worldwide through trust and love for Birth, Nature, & Spirit.

Co-Creative Birthing Circle Facilitator Training & Sage Femme: Women's Healing Arts Circle coming soon!

  

 

Placenta Encapsulation

When I was pregnant, I heard about the benefits of consuming one's placenta after the birth to replenish energy, facilitate a speedy recovery, and to prevent postpartum depression. I knew that placenta was an ancient remedy used for a variety of conditions for thousands of years in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

However, the few articles I read about it mentioned unappetizing recipes such as stir-fried placenta with onions and garlic, blending raw placenta into smoothies and drinking it, or even just eating it raw and plain. None of these methods appealed to me. I happily planted my son's beloved placenta in the garden behind the home he was born in.

I wish that I had the information then about placenta encapsulation. I am delighted that now I have been guided to Placenta Benefits - www.placentabenefits.info - an informative website about the powerful benefits of placenta medicine for postpartum health and more. The founder Jodi Selander offers placenta education and encapsulation services. You can also order a kit with instructions and tools to dry, powder, and encapsulate your own placenta.

The reported benefits of placenta consumption include increased breastmilk, increase energy, prevention of postpartum depression, and less postpartum bleeding. Your own placenta capsules are also excellent to save in the freezer for menopause. Small amounts of one's own dried placenta can be given to the baby or child for separation anxiety, such as the first day of school.  

I believe the placenta is a powerful healing remedy for the mother and baby and I am glad to see more modern methods of bringing this free and safe home remedy back to women and families. Placentas have been honored by cultures around the world since ancient times. In fact, the word placenta comes from old English placent and it means a round, flat cake. Thus, every year on our birthdays, we gather round and celebrate around a cake - known in olden days as a placenta - and eat it.

H.U.G. Your Baby DVD

H.U.G. Your Baby is a new DVD to help parents learn how to Help, Understand & Guide their babies to optimal mood, sleep, eating, and playing. Created by Jan Tedder, B.S.N., a family nurse practitioner with over 30 years experience working with new families and babies. She has formulated her knowledge of babies habits, zones, and reflexes into a clear method of teaching new parents to recognize their babies skills, abilities, and individual character.

As parents communicate with and observe their babies behaviors and responses, they will learn with patience and awareness how their baby responds to stimulation and how to calm and guide their baby. Parents learn in this video the answers to the important questions of: How do I calm my baby? How do I help my baby to eat and sleep well? & How do I play with my baby so she can grow and learn? This DVD teaches through clear instructions to parents and lots of examples of babies exhibiting different behaviors and responses.

This DVD would be a great addition to any library of a childbirth educator, obstetrician, pediatrician, midwife, doula, or parenting coach. Anyone working with infants will gain useful skills of observation and methods of calming and communicating with babies. This DVD is optimal to showing parents in childbirth, breastfeeding, or parenting classes because it is only 20 minutes long, and the movie shows parents and babies of multiple ethnicities.

Parents and professionals can both use more gentle information of how important it is to first look to baby and notice how baby responds and interacts with the world around. Babies may not be able to talk, but they do communicate in many many ways. Through learning this language we can all learn so much from our babies and it can clear up tons of worry and restlessness through understanding what your baby wants and needs to encourage optimal eating, sleeping, playing, and growing.  

www.hugyourbaby.com