Category Healthy Pregnancy

Radio Show: Interview with Laurel Wilson, author of The Greatest Pregnancy Ever on Thursday at 10 am

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My special guest on The Jenny Hatch show on Thursday will be Laurel Wilson.

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Laurel Wilson is Executive Director of Lactation Programs and Faculty for CAPPA, Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association. She acts as the Customer Advocate for InJoy Birth and Parenting, teaching webinars and producing podcasts for professionals. She served as the Program Coordinator for Swedish Medical Center and Presbytarian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Colorado, which combined serve nearly 4000 expectant families a year. She owns MotherJourney Childbirth Services—training childbirth, lactation, and postpartum professionals, as well as expectant families on integrative and holistic information as it pertains to today’s Millennial family.  She has her degree in Maternal Child Health: Lactation Consulting and is an internationally board certified lactation consultant.

The Greatest Pregnancy Ever offers advice for creating a peaceful, joyful,
and positive beginning for your family. This book offers insights and tips
for addressing fears and anxieties, managing stress, increasing comfort
during pregnancy, and creating a way of life that will transform you, your
baby, and ultimately the world you live in.

Authors and pregnancy experts Laurel Wilson and Tracy Wilson Peters know
that parents do not need to read volumes of encyclopedic detail on
pregnancy in order to learn what is important. Instead, The Greatest
Pregnancy Ever offers real-life solutions to the emotional and physical
issues pregnant women face.

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This book is designed around four keys that can unlock the secrets to
having the greatest pregnancy ever. The keys relate to specific time
periods and concepts during pregnancy. When parents focus on incorporating
these keys into their lifestyle, it positively influences the behavior and
personality of their child. No longer should the information given to
pregnant women focus primarily on the aches and pains of pregnancy; what
is needed today is an understanding of how important the motherbaby bond
is and how this bond forever impacts the family dynamic. The Greatest
Pregnancy Ever is the only book that meets this need.

Tune in Live at 10:00 am Mountain Time

Jenny Hatch

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New Doula Photography Business

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For families in Boulder county I am offering a new service.

I am a trained labor assistant and a novice photographer. During almost all of the births I have attended I was the one to take New Family photos, and although untrained as a photographer, the families were very grateful to have an extra person available at the hospital or at a home birth, prepared to offer comfort measures for the Mother during labor and ready to capture New Family Memories, as they often would forget to pull out the camera during the excitement of welcoming the baby.

I have organized a doula photography business for couples who are expecting a new baby.

Services include:

Pregnancy Photo Shoot
Blessing Way Ceremony
Labor and Delivery Doula support
Birth Photography and Video
Newborn and New Family Shoot
USB of all Photos and Videos and…

A three minute Montage of your photos and videos will be thoughtfully edited and uploaded to You Tube for you to share with Family and Friends.

For $528.00 you can have all of the above as well as a lifetime of wonderful memories.

Please contact me below to schedule your Pregnancy Shoot, which I recomend you set up by the 20th week. The best time to photograph is after 35 weeks of pregnancy.

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Jenny 

 

New Online Homebirth Supply Store #JennyHatch

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Recently I put together a few of my favorite home birth prep supplies all in one online store to help families prepare for a home birth.

Here are the links:

To aid in your homebirth preparations click here for supplies!

Family Childbirth Education Click for Books and Videos

Click for Childbirth Kits and Baby Scales

Click for Massage Table and Rocking Chairs

Click for Pregnancy Comfort Pillows

Click for Birth Balls and Birth Stools

Click for Slings, Diapers, and Patterns

Click for Natural Remedies

Happy Birthing!

Jenny Hatch

#jennyhatch U.S. Cesarean Rate Drops for First Time in More Than a Decade

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 The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics just released the latest birth statistics for the United States. According to the report, Births: Preliminary Data for 2010, the national cesarean rate dropped from 32.9% to 32.8%. This is the first time in more than a decade that the rate has not increased.

 

• The birth rate for teenagers has declined for the last three years and 17 out of the past 19 years, falling to 34.3 births per 1,000 teenagers ages 15-19 in 2010. This is a 9 percent decline from 2009 and the lowest rate ever recorded in nearly seven decades of collecting data. Birth rates for younger and older teenagers and for all race/ethnic groups reached historic lows in 2010.

• The cesarean delivery rate dropped for the first time in over a decade.  In 2010, the cesarean rate was 32.8, down slightly from 32.9 in 2009.

• The overall fertility rate as well as the total number of births in the U.S. declined for the third straight year in 2010.  The general fertility rate fell 3 percent from 66.2 births per 1,000 females aged 15-44 in 2009 to 64.1 in 2010.  The total number of births also declined 3 percent, from 4,130,665 in 2009 to 4,000,279 in 2010.

• The total number of births to unmarried mothers declined for the second year in a row in 2010 (1,633,785, down from 1,693,658 in 2009), as did the rate of births per 1,000 unmarried mothers (47.7, down from 49.9 in 2009).  Also, the percentage of all births to unmarried mothers declined slightly in 2010 (40.8 percent, down from 41 percent in 2009.

• The birth rate for women in their early twenties fell 6 percent in 2010, and the rates also fell for women in their late twenties and thirties. However, the birth rate for women in their early forties increased in 2010 by 2 percent to the highest rate since 1967.

• The preterm birth rate declined for the fourth straight year in 2010, to just under 12 percent of all births (11.99) – a 6 percent drop from 2009.

• The low birthweight rate was essentially unchanged between 2009 and 2010 at less than 8.2 percent in 2010, but is down slightly from the record high of 8.3 in 2006.

 

Jill has one of the best Birth Blogs on the web, check out The Unnecesarean here…

Jenny Hatch

 

 

Birth without Fear Blog: Normalizing Birth One Baby At a Time: An Unassisted Birth Story

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I really loved reading this birth story today.  So inspiring!  Jenny Hatch

Normalizing Birth One Baby At a Time: An Unassisted Birth Story 

Jackson Timothy Lee
Born October 11th at 11:30pm.
7lbs, 20 inches

Our second unassisted birth was nothing like our first, but was wonderful just the same. The first was my husband and I, candle-light, music, thunderstorm and then Jasmine; all beautiful and perfect.

Now, five years later (literally the same due date) I wanted to have big sister included, to show her that birth is magical and beautiful and natural. I wanted to get to her before Hollywood could so that what we do could be her “normal”. I invited my mom to be a part of the birth and Jasmine’s “keeper” so that my DH and I could just focus on us and labor….

…The next morning we took Jackson to Earth Fare and put him in the produce scale to weigh him. We had taken Jasmine to the automatic scale at the post office so this seemed appropriate. With diaper, onsie, blanket and hat he weighed 7lbs and was 20 inches long. The whole family is doing great and I’m so happy to share this story. ~Jess