by Reka | Jan 23, 2009 | birth, midwife, pregnancy
The following is an excerpt from Ina May Gaskin’s excellent book entitled Spiritual Midwifery. Ina May Gaskin is one of the leading midwives in the world today. Her birthing center boasts intervention and complication statistics that make hospital maternity...
by Reka | Dec 19, 2008 | hungary, pregnancy
Nausea is one of the most common symptoms of pregnancy, which happily fades of its own accord somewhere around the beginning of the second trimester (around week 12) for most women. It is often called morning sickness, which is a comlaplete misnomer, as it can occur...
by Reka | Dec 17, 2008 | birth, hungary, midwife, pregnancy
These days, natural childbirth seems to be becoming more popular again, which gives it a kind of crunchy trendiness like doing yoga or being vegetarian. (Both worthy and healthy endeavors – just like aiming for natural childbirth – under the right...
by Reka | Nov 5, 2008 | pregnancy
The subject of constipation, and whether or not it is normal in the first trimester came up at our last mommy-baby group, so here’s a little bit of information about this first-trimester nuisance. The short answer is that yes, constipation is a very common...