“Yes, You Too Can Deliver Pain-Free”

My Birth

How Did We Discover The Secrets Of Painless Childbirth?

When we found out I was pregnant we were so excited to prepare for a natural childbirth!  It was a no-brainer decision until we started searching for a doctor.  To our surprise, it was extremely difficult to find a doctor who supported our wishes.  We also quickly realized how much we did not know about natural childbirth and the dilemma women face when birthing in hospitals.

We have lived an extremely holistic life, coaching hundreds of men, women, children, and pregnant women for the past 10 years.  But we soon realized, we were experts in prenatal exercise and nutrition but so unfamiliar with the choices pregnant women really have when searching for birth options and the actual birthing process.  Yes, we knew physically what happens to the body, but we lacked the knowledge of the emotional connection and the importance educating pregnant women like myself about the stages of labor.

After giving up on finding a natural doctor and hearing so many horror birth stories from moms who delivered in the hospital, we thought we were going to fly to another country to deliver as my parents lived in Switzerland at the time.  We thought for sure we would find better care there.  I even went there for 2 weeks to scout places to birth, but once my parents were informed of my great idea, they were extremely reluctant, because of their fear if something were to happen, my hospital bills would be extremely expensive in another country.  Not only that, my mom was extremely nervous as she went into preterm labor with two babies, and they both died.  And she attempted a VBAC with me but was rushed for an emergency C-Section due to malpresentation.  I understood why she had so much fright but I had to explain to her that this is my birth and it did not need to be a repeat of her tragic experiences. 

Unfortunately, many women listen to their mother’s fears and then doubt their ability to birth naturally and pain free.  I started to see a common theme, all of my friends wanted to birth in the hospital, just in case something were to happen.  They all were in fear, and guess what, all of them either were induced, had an epidural, or they were rolled off to a C-Section.  I knew I had to find a midwife if I wanted to experience the great joy and self-satisfaction of being a woman and that is what I did. 

To my surprise, there were three birth centers within and hour of my home.  I toured the Miami Maternity Center first, and felt so comfortable that I didn’t even look at the others.  Not only that, I fell in love with them when I was informed they had a midwifery program!  I felt my new passion bubbling inside, I wanted to become a midwife.  With no time to waste, I enrolled in the midwifery program when I was 4 months pregnant, attending classes at night, performing prenatal visits during the day, and assisting in deliveries day and night within a month. 

I became obsessed with natural birth and angered that so many women, who were merely unprepared for childbirth, were being stripped of the beauty and empowerment of natural birth.  Not only that, they ended up birthing in fear which led to pain, which led to intervention, which led to fetal distress, which led to more anxiety, and in the end a traumatic experience.  And this happens thousands of times every day.  I knew I had to find a way to educate moms not only about their options for birth, but the truths of childbirth and how to reinstate courage and confidence in the phenomena of natural childbirth. 

I remember the first time I transferred a mom to the hospital as she was stuck at 9 centimeters for hours.  I thought no big deal, we will go to the hospital, the staff will welcome her, the doctor will check her and decide on a protocol.  Well I was a little mistaken.  We arrived to the labor and delivery floor where the nurses were fighting with me, saying they could not see her and that no one had informed them we were on our way.  After a few phone calls to the doctor, who was notified of the transfer, they found her a bed and a gown.  This initial entrance changed the laboring mom’s entire state of mind, and she immediately started to fear what was going to happen.  She held my hand tightly as the nursed strapped her fetal monitors on and told her she was going to check her and it might hurt.  I felt so bad for the laboring mom, as tears started to roll down her cheeks.  She thought she was a failure and the nurses were treating her like one, implying a mood of why would you even try a natural birth.  I only imagined the treatment and fear other laboring moms were experiencing, women who did not have someone at their side who believed in them, encouraging the progress they were making.

I know not every hospital is like this but statistics prove this trend as C-section rates are at their highest, and some hospitals boast induction rates as high as 80%.  Nurses feel pressured to keep their laboring women “on schedule” dripping pitocin into the IV.  Not only that, they are overloaded with patients and can’t spend time dealing with the laboring mom’s emotions.  It really has become a factory, and it is quite disturbing.

So here I am now informing you on your choices and encouraging you to experience the most beautiful thing in life, the natural, pain-free birth of your newborn baby.

Your pregnancy and delivery is special.  It can be a burden or thrilling, painful or orgasmic.   The greatest part of pregnancy is, you can learn how to create your perfect and painless childbirth.  You will receive the 30 day course with special tips for every stage of pregnancy and labor.  You will know exactly what to expect when labor comes and you will be able to apply all of the techniques to a controlled, intense, beautiful birth! Nowhere else will you find the information we are about to share.

My Birth Story

It was June 2nd , around 3 am I was awakened by mild contractions.  This was new to me as I never felt Braxton Hicks contractions during my pregnancy.  My intuition told me, today was the day, I was in labor.  I went back to bed, knowing I needed rest for the long day ahead of me.  At 7 am I got a call from the birth center, calling me in to coach a laboring mom and I proudly replied, I will be there soon, but not to coach today, I too am going to have my baby.  Around 10 am I went to the birth center to be checked, and sure enough I was in labor.  I was 3 centimeter, effacing nicely, and the baby was engaged in the pelvis.

I left the center to get some lunch and rented a few movies, knowing a first time labor can take many hours.  To my surprise, my contractions stopped as I watched the movies.  It seemed so weird at the time, but when I look back, it is just another example of the natural course of labor, unpredictable and uncontrollable.  The baby comes when it is ready. 

Eventually, James asked me, “Do you want to have your baby today, or do you want to watch another movie?”  Well we opted for the baby, so we turned off the television and just hung out like two little love birds, and sure enough the contractions resumed.  We swayed together and rested together for a few more hours.  Around 10 p.m. I decided it was time to go to the birth center, I could feel the changes occurring in my body, the contractions were becoming more intense, and I could only think about climbing into a warm tub of water.

When I arrived I was 7 centimeters (10 is complete).  I climbed right into the warm water and completely relaxed for an hour.  What a great recovery period.  I then decided I was ready to meet my little baby, so I started squatting in the tub and in a way dancing with the contractions, allowing my little baby to work his way down the birth canal.

By 2:15 I was complete and Kaden was delivered 15 minutes later, pain-free!  Watch my birth.

Finally, the Truths Of Labor And Delivery

    The TV and Media have instilled in us that childbirth is painful and frantic.  The pregnant woman panics as her water suddenly breaks.  The dad is frantically running around the house, looking for the already packed suitcase.  He finds it, grabs it and runs to the car, forgetting his partner.  They finally arrive the emergency room drop off where a nurse rolls out the wheelchair and the panicked couple is escorted to the labor and delivery floor where she screams her baby out.

    The truth is

-Less than 7% of labors begin with broken waters.

-Labor usually lasts between 12 and 24 hours for a first time mom.

-A mom can push anywhere from a couple of minutes to a couple of hours.

-If your water breaks first, you still may not have contractions for minutes up to hours.

-Every interventive obstetric technique has known side effects for mother and baby.

-Your body produces much stronger analgesic and anesthetic drugs naturally through hormones.

-If you do not fear the birthing experience, it is beautiful and painless.

How Do Other Cultures Birth?

In other cultures, childbirth is regarded as a natural, normal event in a woman's life. In Brigette Jordan’s book Birth in Four Cultures she wrote: “There is in Dutch participants a deep-seated conviction that the woman’s body knows best and that, given enough time, nature knows best and that, given enough time, nature will take its course”.  How often do you hear this from your doctor?  The birthing women in other cultures are given support from other women, and children are often present to witness the event. In this way, birth is celebrated and honored. Young girls then grow up with the belief system that birth is a positive event and their expectations of childbirth reflect this attitude. As a result, their births are similar to their predecessors, without pain and fear. They have a positive expectation of childbirth. In our culture, it is very much the opposite.

For many generations we have been told that delivering a baby is many hours of painfully agonizing work, to be faced with fear and trepidation. We have heard stories from well-meaning friends and family that send shivers up our spines, and so the legacy continues. We experience pain in childbirth, in part because we very much expect to: unless you change your perspective and train for your natural painless birth, you too can fall victim to a scary birth.

Our Promise

This is not your typical approach to childbirth but it works.  We promise you will be extremely prepared and confident when you go into labor, and if you successfully implement these proven tools and techniques you will enjoy the bliss that we did and hundreds of others experience everyday.

Who Should Take This Course?

But this is not for every pregnant woman.  If you are uninterested in birthing naturally, or feel you do not have the time to learn about the phenomena of your changing body please do not sign up.  If you do not believe hundreds of women experience a painless birth everyday please do not sign up.  And lastly if you think you know everything there is to know about childbirth please do not sign up.

If you are ready to embark on the most exciting journey of your life please sign up now.  If you believe you will be the next painless birth success story, please sign up.  If you are ready to throw your fears out the door and start preparing for your perfect birth, Sign up Now.  Whether you are 7 weeks pregnant or 27 weeks pregnant sign up now.

How Much Would You Pay for Your Perfect Birth?

Some women pay thousands of dollars to have a doula present at their birth, others pay hundreds of dollars for a 6 week or 8 week childbirth education class, and others pay thousands for their perfect health care provider.  You want to be in the best hands and want the best chance possible to deliver naturally and pain-free.

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You will receive this invaluable knowledge, tools, and exercises to create your perfect pain-free natural birth.  Your investment is just $47.  This offer is only available until March 1, 2010.  To avoid the slippery slope of medical intervention and the loss of your power as a reproducing woman please sign up now.

Discover The 30 Secrets For A Painless Childbirth

How would you like to have a day-by-day guide, leading you to a painless birth?  We will not only divulge our secrets but those of many others.  These include techniques, tools and exercises compiled just for you.  You must remember a painless childbirth is not easy.  The preparation takes a mental and physical commitment.  You are not guaranteed a painless birth, but with our course you are guaranteed complete knowledge of the birthing process eliminating fear while gaining courage and the best chance possible for a natural painless childbirth.   This course is 30 days, that is right, for 30 days you will increase your knowledge and preparation giving you the confidence to experience the best kept secret of childbirth, the rush of love hormones overcoming your body as your new baby arrives.  Here are the topics for your 30-day course:

-In your welcome letter you will receive a reading list of must haves like Ina Mays Guide to Natural Childbirth, a list of great movies to watch like Orgasmic Birth, and links to natural childbirth videos

-Day 1- Belly Training Part I, “How a Belly Breathe Can Ease  the Pain” (Read part of Belly Training Now!)

-Day 2- Belly Training Part II, “Piston Breathing for Strong Pushing Muscles”

-Day 3- Belly Training Part III “Kegels to Prevent Tearing During Pushing and Urinary Incontinence After your Baby is Born”

-Day 4- “Body Transformations, What is going on with my body?  Is this really what pregnancy is like? Alleviate and Prevent Uncomfortable Pregnancy Symptoms Naturally.”

-Day 5- “The 7 Questions You Need to Ask Your Care Taker to Make Sure He/She is on Your Side”

-Day 6- How can your uterus work with you in childbirth and how can it work against you?

-Day 7- “Super Foods for a Super Healthy Mommy and Baby”

-Day 8- Labor Training- “Exercises Building a Stronger and Healthier Placenta, Mommy and Baby, Eliminating Exhaustion and the Need for Pain Medication”

-Day 9- “How to get your Partner on your Side, and 3 Questions to Ask Yourself Regarding Who Should be Laboring by your Side”

-Day 10- The History of Childbirth, When was Anesthesia Introduced, Why Forceps were Introduced, and Who really were the First OBs?

- Day 11- “Visualization Exercises to Program your Body for the Ease of Birth”

- Day 12- “Household toxins quiz…What to throw away and what to keep”

- Day 13- “As you start to grow a baby bump, relieve structural stresses with corrective stretch therapy”.  How do you know if you are tight?  Follow the self-guided stretch assessment to find your tight muscles and learn how to stretch them.

-Day 14- Functional Exercise to realign your body, improve digestion, improve respiration and decrease heartburn.  (Read part now!)

Day 15- Did you know you can massage your baby in-utero as well as every organ in your body with your breath?  Learn how.

Day 16- Legitimate Fear, How it got here and why it must go.  Learn the truths of hospital births, especially in America, and how you can save yourself from the slippery slope of drugs, interventions, and c-sections with this little bit of knowledge.

Day 17- My friends and family think I am crazy for wanting a natural birth…what do I tell them and how can I find others who want to birth like me?

Day 18- What exactly are endorphins and how will they help me in labor and delivery?  Is it true they are 200 times stronger than synthetic pain relievers?

Day 19- Fall in love with oxytocin, this is not only your love hormone, but it is what causes your uterus to contract.  Learn the other great benefits, especially right after delivery of your baby.

Day 20- Fight or Flight also known as the sympathetic nervous system, see how if triggered, labor can be stalled or even come to a halt.  When engaged tension occurs causing pain.  Learn how to inhibit this system in labor.

Day 21- Labor positions.  No one woman is the same.  You will not know which position is right for you until you are in labor but, we will show you the best ones for an easier labor so you can practice them now.

Day 22- What is pitocin, how does it affect labor and why it leads to an epidural and a c-section in many cases?  Read stories of unprepared women who wanted natural birth and ended up with c-sections, not knowing they had a choice.

Day 23- Dr. Dick Reads shocking advice for the emergency birth.  What will you do if labor comes unexpectedly?

Day 24- Ina May’s Sphincter Law: The vagina is a sphincter and so are the throat, urethra, and anus.  When one sphincter opens they all do.  How can this be helpful in your labor? (Read about Ina May’s Sphincter Law Now!)

Day 25- What is transition?  What is happening to you and your baby?  Why are you shaking or vomiting?

Day 26- Work out relationship problems/issues now.  Because the quality of your relationship with your partner forms the emotional climate into which your baby is born, it is crucial to deal with any problems now.  How can you move closer to your partner right now?

Day 27- What you need to know about the second stage of labor (pushing).  What is the ring of fire?  What positions are encouraged and what position to avoid at all costs and why.

Day 28- The empowerment and self-gratification from the delivery of your newborn.

Day 29- The afterbirth, or birth of the placenta.  Does it hurt?  When does it happen?  Can and should you eat it for post partum depression?

Day 30- How and why to breastfeed- Videos and pictures.  When do you start and why.