by Karen Melton | Aug 14, 2014 | Articles, Childbirth
Cesarean section (c-section) is major abdominal surgery used to delivery a baby. It’s not always traumatic but just because it is major surgery and often unplanned, birthing moms are usually unprepared for it in addition to giving birth. It can be quite...
by Karen Melton | Aug 14, 2014 | Articles, Childbirth
Recovering Emotionally: It is hard when you have been through a long or difficult birth ending in a c-section, and you may even be feeling traumatized by it, and then you are expected to ‘get on with it’ after a short time. Many women end up reeling...
by Karen Melton | Aug 14, 2014 | Articles, Childbirth, Conscious Early Parenting
I want to give you some great ways that you can be prepared for any kind of c-section. I advocate strongly for mom’s to practice Prenatal Attachment parenting because if you have a strong connection with your baby by the time you get to your birthing, you have a...
by Karen Melton | Jul 27, 2012 | Articles, Conception, Conscious Early Parenting, Early Consciousness, Pregnancy
Conception necessitates two people coming together to make a baby and there is the potential for their union to be deep, passionate, conscious and totally present. As we come into life at conception we receive our first imprint of relationship from how our parents are...
by Karen Melton | Aug 13, 2010 | Articles, Childbirth
This article, found on the birth routes site, is about the damaging affects of pitocin, a drug routinely used by obstetricians in hospital birthing for inductions and augmentation of labor (speeding it up). Pitocin is specifically only approved by the FDA when...
