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Birth muse: the birth story of eliza michelle
1MARIA J. BROOKS is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator and DONA International Certified Doula practicing in New York City and Philadelphia. She has taught in two New York City hospital systems and offers a wide variety of education and labor support services in the Phildelphia metropolitan area (www.birthmuse.org) .
Abstract:
The author, a birth doula and Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, agreed to attend the birth of a second child to a mother whose military husband was serving overseas. Because labor seemed to be progressing slowly, they waited at a hotel near the birth center. A very quick labor progression led to a rapid birth in the hotel, with the midwife still on her way. The author shares how learning to trust the power of natural childbirth helped her to remain calm and present for the mother for a once-in-a-lifetime moment.
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