Support Call Monday February 20

  Monday, February 20, 2012 was Leslynotes’ Support call! Here’s the recording! The following questions were submitted for the call:       How long will labor be? How does the Epidural work? When is it time to go to the hospital? What is a Doula?   Visit here for information on how to get [...]

Welcome to Smartbirth

  Are you looking for a community of women helping other women? Seasoned or new moms. Pregnant or a professional. Doesn’t matter. Birth is more than having a baby! It’s a life changer on many levels – relationships with friends, co-workers, and even with your own parents. Your relationship with your partner can change. How you think and feel about [...]

Building Self-Reliance

  Self-reliance is the ability to rely on what you know is best for you and follow it. Call this “gut” reactions, or intuition, or the “little voice” that speaks to you. It’s this voice that is the best guide and best friend you’ll ever have (throughout your life) because it comes from within you! [...]

Birth Coach Call Monday, February 13,2012

  If you missed the call tonight, no worries. Here it is. For some reason I got cut off, but you’ll hear most of it! I’ll announce upcoming news in the next call!   Enjoy and talk to you next week! Go here to submit your questions! Questions asked: What do contractions feel like What [...]

Why Movement Decreases Labor Pain

  For many of us, who are not scientists or neurologists, we lack understanding of how our bodies work chemically and physiologically. We rarely think about how our bodies move, walk or run, even how our brains work! So when I find nuggets of information that helps to explain how and why our bodies do certain things [...]

Breathing Through Labor and Life

Breathing through labor is the best action to focus on because of its calming results.  Even through life events, especially stressful ones, stopping to focus on your breathing can help you cope with any situation. Why? You have been breathing all your life. It’s a natural life giving process our bodies do 24/7 and yet [...]