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In this issue:
• latest news
• relax into parenthood
• new moms' sleep survey
• 2nd 9 months reminder
• august calendar
• recommended resource
• of note: CNM births in santa fe!
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RELAXING INTO PARENTHOOD
For parents of children of all ages. While the focus is on expecting parents, you will still benefit if you're already a parent.
Monday, August 4, 11:30am
Are your forty weeks starting to add up?  Looming large is the most exciting, rewarding and challenging job of all, parenting. But it doesn't have to be daunting. Imagine relaxing into your own style of parenting and feeling confident and proud of yourself. Imagine relaxing your mind enough to focus intently on your child, to discover your powerful parenting instincts and to nurture your child in your own unique way. Relaxed parents naturally experience stronger attachments to their children and report more satisfying relationships with them. Throughout the parenting years, knowing how to relax and be more mindful will bring these and many other benefits. In this class you will learn the secrets of profound mental and physical relaxation through self-hypnosis, which makes this kind of focus easy and productive. You'll also learn how to program your creative inner mind for more loving, peaceful and patient parenting. There's no better time to start than during pregnancy, when your baby gets to benefit from your relaxation training too! $10 plus tax. With Shelley Black.
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LATEST NEWS
A few class changes.
- The Intro to Doula work class on August 9 will begin at noon instead of 11:30.
- The Birth Class Intensive on August 23 will now be held on Sunday, August 3rd. There are still a few spots left, but contact us NOW to hold one.
New website features.
- Newsletter archive - just recently join our list? See what you've missed in the past year!
Erika Harding - Body, Mind & Spirit Owner and Director
Amylee Udell - Body, Mind & Spirit Business Manager
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Moms of Infants - Help in this Research Study of Mothers' Sleep and Fatigue
We are pleased to announce our new online survey of mothers' sleep and fatigue. Please tell mothers you work with about our study. The more mothers we can get to participate, the more valid our findings. This study is open to all mothers with babies 0-12 months old. We would like to include breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding women, and women of all ethnicities and income levels. We hope to document:
*Where and how much do babies sleep?
*Are mothers who breastfeed and co-sleep more or less tired than
mothers who don't?
*Are mothers telling their friends, relatives and health care
providers where their babies sleep?
*Are there ethnic group differences in where babies sleep?
*What is the role of depression, psychological trauma and difficult
birth in mothers' ongoing daytime fatigue?
The questionnaire takes 20 to 30 minutes to complete and is confidential. It has been approved by the Institutional Review Board at Texas Tech University Health Sciences
Center, Amarillo, Texas.
The link for the survey is:http://neonatal.ttuhsc.edu/lact
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., IBCLC & Thomas Hale,Ph.D.,Co- investigators
For more information about our study, contact
Kathy Kendall-Tackett, kkendallt@aol.com
Thanks to Jenny West for passing this along to us!
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Prenatal Yoga
One of the most effective ways to enjoy your
pregnancy and prepare for birth
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AUGUST 2008 CALENDAR
- FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2ND NINE MONTHS MOMS GROUP
- Sunday, August 3, Birth Class Intensive
- Monday, August 4, Intro to Infant ASL
- Monday, August 4, Hypnosis for Two: Relaxing into Parenthood
- Saturday, August 9, 10am-11pm, Doula Tea
- Saturday, August 9, noon-2pm, Intro to Doula Work
- Monday, August 11, Basics of Nursing
- Monday, August 18, Baby Massage
- Monday, August 18, Postpartum Potluck
- Monday, August 25, Signing Playgroup
- Monday, August 25, Baby Basics
- Friday, September 5, 2nd Nine Months
CLick here for more information on any of the classes listed above.
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DON'T FORGET
2nd Nine Months Group THIS FRIDAY, August 1st. Join us at 10am!
Expecting moms also welcome. |
Would you like to advertise here? Contact us for more information.
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Santa Fe May Soon have CNM Births
Julie Gorwoda, CNM MSN
Director of Nurse-Midwifery Education at UNM
After 63 years of clinical nurse-midwifery presence in Santa Fe New Mexico, we are happy to announce that women in Santa Fe may soon have a CNM-attended BIRTH at St. Vincent's Hospital! The vote from the Medical Executive Committee today was groundbreaking and paves the way for full-scope nurse-midwifery care in this city, one of the last hospital-holdouts against CNM intrapartum care in New Mexico. 2008 UNM graduate Maria Theresa (Maite) Redondo-Cladera will be the first nurse-midwife at this facility after strong support from Ob/Gyn Dr. Cindi Lewis and Maite's FP employers at La Familia Medical Center, especially Dr. Gary Giblin. The three of them worked long and hard to make this a reality.
Catholic Maternity Institute was founded in 1945 in Santa Fe by CNMs who were also Medical Mission Sisters. It was one of the earliest midwifery services and also the first university-affiliated nurse-midwifery education program in the US. Midwifery leaders from CMI also incorporated the American College of Nurse-Midwives in Santa Fe in 1955 but CNMs were excluded from the only hospital in town until today. This victory for women and midwives could not have come without years of support from consumers and the midwifery community's education of thoughtful physicians.
If you know anyone on the Medical Executive Committee or St. V's administrators, please thank them and send your letters of congratulation to Maite at amniotic22@yahoo.com. Her years of intelligent, extremely capable nursing care of laboring mothers at St. Vincent's made her the logical first CNM choice for this hospital. And tell your sisters, cousins and friends from Santa Fe they don't have to go to Albuquerque or Las Alamos for a hospital birth anymore! Blessings to Laurie Holmes, CNM who attended women at home in Santa Fe for several decades and the other Santa Fe CNMs who kept the porch light on in the "City Different" for over 63 years.
Please pass on the good news!
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RECOMMENDED RESOURCE
We've always got our eyes out for useful links and information for you. If you have any links about birthing, parenting or green living you think other families would enjoy, please send them along. This issue's link is...
Alternatives to Plastic Bottles!
Last month we featured an article about the dangers of so many plastic water bottles.
Would you like some COOL alternatives? Check out the options at ReusableBags.com and be sure to see their current sale. There are even some sippy cups for baby! |
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Rebeka Rose
Doula Services and Bodywork, including core synchronism, colonics, and massage. Call 268-6870, ext. 204
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Doulas of the Southwest
Providing childbirth & postpartum Doula support to families of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Meet Our Doulas at our regular Teas held every second Saturday of each month at 10 a.m.at The Source located at 1111 Carlisle S.E.
(right next to Michael Thomas Coffeehouse)
Dads/partners are always welcome!
You can meet each of us and get answers to your questions about Doulas, Birth, and Pregnancy |
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