Category Archives: Childbirth Education

Labor Support Workshop in Park Slope

Prenatal Yoga and Massage workshop for Expectant Couples in Park Slope, Brooklyn

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Prenatal Yoga at Realbirth in Park Slope

Prenatal Yoga at Realbirth in Park Slope, relive your aches and pains, and meet other mothers as you prepare for labor.

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Birth as a Rite of Passage? …Continued

Now onto the transformation in the medical domain.
We visit the doctor’s office on a regular basis, and the rhythm there becomes part of our ritual. Waiting room, weigh-in, blood pressure, urine sample, questions for doctor, sonogram…internal exam.
A transformation in the formal education domain occurs. Pregnancy is a time for many women and their partners [...]

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Birth as a Rite of Passage?

What a concept.
I am reading Robbie E. Davis-Floyd’s book, “Birth as an American Rite of Passage”. It is really fascinating. She is a social anthropologist, or at least this book is about social anthropology. Not exactly light reading, and not really one that I would recommend to all pregnant women, but many [...]

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Natural Birth V.S. The Epidural (Part 2)- The Hormonal Blueprint of Labor

Think twice about getting that epidural…it interrupts the body’s own natural cycle of pain relief. Discusses the “Hormonal Blueprint of Labor”

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