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Hello ladies! First I want to thank you for visiting The Belly Button Connection (TBBC). TBBC was originally created as a forum for mothers: aspiring, expecting, and veteran. The name was derived from the baby’s connection to the mother: physically, mentally, and emotionally. I wanted TBBC to be a place where women received both accurate and positive feedback about pregnancy. Since creating TBBC I’ve learned that our thoughts about pregnancy, motherhood, and womanhood start long before the onset of puberty. In fact, it starts with our relationships with our own mothers, aunts, sisters, and peers. Our hardships are not our own. They are passed down from generation to generation, friend to friend, spouse to spouse, parent to child. This doesn’t have to be the case. Leo Buscaglia said it best when he said, “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
TBBC is that touch, smile, kind word, listening ear, honest compliment, and smallest act of caring. My mission is to keep you abreast on events, programs, and seminars that will be beneficial to you as well as partner with organizations that will improve your confidence, increase your self-esteem, and help you become the woman you strive to be for yourself, your family, and generations to follow.
I cringed while in a prenatal class watching cesarean sections and epidural babies being extracted by forceps or a vaccum. I don't look down on mothers who have medicated births; however, seeing the baby pulled out of the vagina always gives me such uneasy feelings. Just when I was thinking how much I did NOT want any medical intervention Greer Memorial Hospital nurse, Stephanie, reminded me that while my birth plan was important the health of the baby was MOST important. For example, there are moms who labor for many, many hours and greatly desire to have a vaginal birth but are instructed to have a cesarean section because baby and/or mom are in distress. After undergoing this surgery, it's important that mom takes time to recover. This might interfer with bathing baby after birth or spending as much time with baby as mom would like. However, mom needs to take care of herself before she can properly care for baby.
In 2000, a study was published in the British journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine where researchers in Australia and New Zealand reported that sleep deprivation can have some of the same hazardous effects as being drunk. This might throw a serious wrench into your plans. I already know that I want to breastfeed immediatly after birthing my baby. I also want me and my husband to give baby his/her first bath. I have all these plans for a pregnancy that might not go according to plan. On the one hand you have childbirth professionals urging expecting moms to educate themselves on all of their options and write out their birth plan in excruciatingly painful detail. And, then you have other childbrith professionals laughing at such an idea saying, "Leave it up to me to do what's best for you and baby; You lie back and don't worry about it." I remember hearing a someone say that the truth always lies somewhere in the middle. I belive that's an appropriate phrase in this scenario. It is important to do your research when it comes to the birth of your babe. However, it's also important to forego your plans when they aren't in the best interest of the baby. Some women look at deviation as a form of defeat. Doing what's best for your baby isn't defeat ladies. It's being a good mother. :) If you take nothing else away from this article, please consider this:
- Everyone deserves respect.
- Every mom should be able to create HER own birth experience.
- Every birth is different. So, when creating your birth experience or speaking with another mom about her birth experience take ALL things into consideration.
- Baby getting her safely and healthy is MOST important.
- Mom has to take care of herself before she can care for her lil' bundle.
I cringed while in a prenatal class watching cesarean sections and epidural babies being extracted by forceps or a vaccum. I don't look down on mothers who have medicated births; however, seeing the baby pulled out of the vagina always gives me such uneasy feelings. Just when I was thinking how much I did NOT want any medical intervention Greer Memorial Hospital nurse, Stephanie, reminded me that while my birth plan was important the health of the baby was MOST important. For example, there are moms who labor for many, many hours and greatly desire to have a vaginal birth but are instructed to have a cesarean section because baby and/or mom are in distress. After undergoing this surgery, it's important that mom takes time to recover. This might interfer with bathing baby after birth or spending as much time with baby as mom would like. However, mom needs to take care of herself before she can properly care for baby. In 2000, a study was published in the British journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine where researchers in Australia and New Zealand reported that sleep deprivation can have some of the same hazardous effects as being drunk. This might throw a serious wrench into your plans. I already know that I want to breastfeed immediatly after birthing my baby. I also want me and my husband to give baby his/her first bath. I have all these plans for a pregnancy that might not go according to plan. On the one hand you have childbirth professionals urging expecting moms to educate themselves on all of their options and write out their birth plan in excruciatingly painful detail. And, then you have other childbrith professionals laughing at such an idea saying, "Leave it up to me to do what's best for you and baby; You lie back and don't worry about it." I remember hearing a someone say that the truth always lies somewhere in the middle. I belive that's an appropriate phrase in this scenario. It is important to do your research when it comes to the birth of your babe. However, it's also important to forego your plans when they aren't in the best interest of the baby. Some women look at deviation as a form of defeat. Doing what's best for your baby isn't defeat ladies. It's being a good mother. :) If you take nothing else away from this article, please consider this:
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