Can women enjoy their birth experience? Can a man really help a woman in labor? Can birth be drug free? As a Childbirth Educator, Doula and Comfort Therapist, I have had the privilege of being at over 200 births. I started to teach couples the power of birthing comfort techniques over 30 years ago. I was a young mommy myself and my own experience had taught me the miraculous power of my own body.
I believed, grabbed on to, and leaned into the truth that this is my body, my baby, my birth – six times. To my advantage I had an awesome coach/hubby that took his training and position of comforter very serious. He even ended up delivering our second baby all by himself (Ok, I was there too and helped some) because our son came early and in 11.5 minutes! Yes, 11.5 minutes, with a previous labor of 33 hours, and a third birth that was 12 hours, oh wow, barn burner labor. The wonder of it all! Every baby has their own miracle birth story.
It is magical to watch a couple work together in labor. Most people never get to see this or experience it because the majority of couples have no idea how to work together during birth. Even if they attend birth preparation classes most couples do not learn techniques that empower them to efficiently work through the birth process. Yet, these moments, working together towards the birth of their baby, can be the most rewarding, memorable, and create deep ties of love.
I tell couples that out of their intimacy and love this baby was created and out of their intimacy and love they can birth their baby. I share with them empowering comfort techniques: deep comfort relaxation, comfort breathing, comfort imagery, comfort words, comfort touch, and the comfort of understanding the birth process.
I teach Moms how to trust their bodies. I teach Dads information and techniques that the male brain can use. Once men have the “tools” they need to be compassionate and comforting, they do an amazing job. It is so rewarding to watch the Dads transform from uncertain, underpowered, and unknowing to equipped, powerful, loving, comforting partners. His love and compassion has been clinically proven to be as powerful as a narotic for pain relief.
When you teach a couple how to really work together during one of the most demanding physical and emotional times in their life they learn skills they will use forever. Birth is about having a baby, but much more is going on. This is a time when couples can be taught the dance of love, support and comfort. This is the birth of a family.
It is a gift and a treasure to empower and educate couples at this truly precious time in their life. “Babies … what a nice way to start people.”
For more information about doula services and classes please email info@jeanelletroncone.com or visit http://www.birthandbabycomforts.com/
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January 21, 2009
The Labor Comfort Factor
Published in The Bump Magazine.
From the moment of conception your body begins to quietly change. Two tiny cells carry the unique design that in nine amazing months becomes your child.
Creating tiny bones, teeth buds, little organs and over 4,000 little brain neurons is a lot of work! By the time you give birth, your heart will be pumping one-fourth more blood. You body will have made, and then completely refreshed, the silkie fluid that surrounds your baby every two hours, every day.
Ask questions, read and take care of yourself. Think comfort, drink a lot, rest more, moisturize your skin, eat healthy, because now... you are the mom.
Comfort yourself, preparing physically, by learning breathing and relaxation techniques; emotionally, by confronting your fears; spiritually, by opening your heart, and mentally, by learning about birth and parenting.
When your baby is due, your womb, the uterus, is the largest, strongest muscle in your body. The muscle fibers of your womb have grown two inches in thickness just to house your baby and prepare for birth. During birth, these muscles that surround your baby “labor” rhythmically, contracting and releasing as they shorten and openthe cervix for your baby to be born. Your baby was designed with this miracle in mind. Don’t be afraid of your labor. Your bones, muscles, and hormones, all work together in a symphony of birth. Learn how to embrace each contraction by breathing deeply and slowly. Relaxing every other muscle in your body reserves your energy, lowers your pain perception and helps the uterus to work more effectively.
Simple comfort techniques can bring amazing relief. Use an Effleurage Labor Massage Blanket to stroke over your tummy for rhythmic distraction and soothing comfort. Bring reheatable packs to soothe muscle cramps and cold packs for cool refreshment. Pack lip and skin balm for massage and moisture.
Your baby emerges from the quiet, soothing environment of the womb to our noisy, bright world. Don’t rush the first minutes after birth. Ask to hold your Baby skin-to-skin as soon as it is born, warming Baby with the Bonding Blanket and creating the soothing scent connection. Bring the Infant Swaddler Blanket to the hospital so you can wrap baby in a womb-like, soft cocoon. Swaddling has a calming effect on baby, and the wrapping style helps position baby for holding and feeding.
Be comforted in the fact that you are everything your baby needs.
Comforting words from Jeanelle Troncone, a Childbirth/Early Parenthood Educator, mother of six and owner of Comfort Silkie. She can be reached at jtcomforts@gmail.com or www.comfortsilkie.com.
©Jeanelle Troncone 2009. No part of this article may be reproduced in any form without written permission.
From the moment of conception your body begins to quietly change. Two tiny cells carry the unique design that in nine amazing months becomes your child.
Creating tiny bones, teeth buds, little organs and over 4,000 little brain neurons is a lot of work! By the time you give birth, your heart will be pumping one-fourth more blood. You body will have made, and then completely refreshed, the silkie fluid that surrounds your baby every two hours, every day.
Ask questions, read and take care of yourself. Think comfort, drink a lot, rest more, moisturize your skin, eat healthy, because now... you are the mom.
Comfort yourself, preparing physically, by learning breathing and relaxation techniques; emotionally, by confronting your fears; spiritually, by opening your heart, and mentally, by learning about birth and parenting.
When your baby is due, your womb, the uterus, is the largest, strongest muscle in your body. The muscle fibers of your womb have grown two inches in thickness just to house your baby and prepare for birth. During birth, these muscles that surround your baby “labor” rhythmically, contracting and releasing as they shorten and openthe cervix for your baby to be born. Your baby was designed with this miracle in mind. Don’t be afraid of your labor. Your bones, muscles, and hormones, all work together in a symphony of birth. Learn how to embrace each contraction by breathing deeply and slowly. Relaxing every other muscle in your body reserves your energy, lowers your pain perception and helps the uterus to work more effectively.
Simple comfort techniques can bring amazing relief. Use an Effleurage Labor Massage Blanket to stroke over your tummy for rhythmic distraction and soothing comfort. Bring reheatable packs to soothe muscle cramps and cold packs for cool refreshment. Pack lip and skin balm for massage and moisture.
Your baby emerges from the quiet, soothing environment of the womb to our noisy, bright world. Don’t rush the first minutes after birth. Ask to hold your Baby skin-to-skin as soon as it is born, warming Baby with the Bonding Blanket and creating the soothing scent connection. Bring the Infant Swaddler Blanket to the hospital so you can wrap baby in a womb-like, soft cocoon. Swaddling has a calming effect on baby, and the wrapping style helps position baby for holding and feeding.
Be comforted in the fact that you are everything your baby needs.
Comforting words from Jeanelle Troncone, a Childbirth/Early Parenthood Educator, mother of six and owner of Comfort Silkie. She can be reached at jtcomforts@gmail.com or www.comfortsilkie.com.
©Jeanelle Troncone 2009. No part of this article may be reproduced in any form without written permission.
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