Top 5 (ok, technically 6) Favorite links shared this week on Facebook:

IMPORTANT! 5 words babies use (baby language) I teach my Doula families about Dunstan language for babies, and then we move right on into Baby Signs to facilitate early communication between infants and grown-ups 🙂

Kissaluvs Pocket Training Pants – The Natural Baby Kissaluvs Pocket Training Pants (Potty Learning and EC). Kids will enjoy the big kid underwear feel and the super cute prints inside.

Sign of the week : COAT- although who needs a coat this week in Atlanta?! 🙂 Enjoy

The Etiquette of Visiting Parents with Newborns: In Hypnobabies Class 6 as students are learning about New Mom and Baby Care we discuss the ‘best’ kind of visit: On your invitation only; pay to get in (food); no UNSOLICITED advice (Mama will ask if she needs help); allow Mama a moment to freshen up (while getting some one on one with new baby); leave within an hour; tidy up something before you go (without asking- just.do.it.)…. I try to follow the same general guide as a doula 🙂

Fear and Pain: A Cultural Picture of Childbirth…and What We Can Do to Change It

Part 2 – Fear and Pain: A Cultural Picture of Childbirth…and What We Can Do to Change It : ‎”If an understanding of birth as fundamentally painful and unpleasant can lead women to experience it as such, one has to wonder if this rule can be reversed. Are women who view birth as inherently comfortable -something to be embraced rather than resisted – and themselves as calm, confident and capable, less likely to have painful, difficult birth experiences?” Hypnobabies RELIES on this foundation of thought. Our students spend weeks (sometimes months) re-programming their minds from the former way of viewing childbirth. Many (about 70%) claim that their births were completely comfortable 🙂