Exploring the Role of the Autonomic Nervous System on our Physical and Emotional Health and Wellbeing.
Did you know that all of our body systems development, such as our immune, digestive, circulatory, immune and respiratory systems, are influenced by our in utero and birth experience and are controlled by the Autonomic Nervous System? The Autonomic Nervous System is pivotal in the regulation of our survival functions. Its importance cannot be overstated.…
What Every Parent Should Know About Their Baby’s Ability to Feel Pain
When newborns are handled as though they don’t feel pain, an imprint is created: an underlying feeling that the world in which they’ve arrived is not safe or OK. It is an imprint that can set the tone for the creation of a host of fear-based beliefs throughout life. Sharon King – Heal Your Birth,…
Environmental Conditioning at Birth
‘Mohammad’ was born during the Iran-Iraq war. While is mother was being wheeled down for a C-section, the hospital in his home city of Shiraz kept going into blackout. Bombs where dropping all around him as the doctors made several attempts to bring him into the world.
The Effects of Our Modern Day Birthing Methods
An increasing number of women are choosing to give birth at home these days. However, if you search Google with the term ‘homebirths’, you will find a plethora of articles that argue that home-birthing is unsafe. We have become entrained to believe that we give our baby the safest entry into the world if we…
Why Your Birth Story Matters
The history of man for nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting, and contain events of greater moments, than all the threescore and ten years that follow it. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1840 The way you came into the world still matters today. As you sit and read these words you…