Confident Beginnings is so excited to announce the arrival of Kim Gross and Angelique Boynton to our staff. They are adding an array of services to Confident Beginnings, like: Reiki, Reflexology, Birth Doula services and so much more. April has recently expanded her services to include a Body Image Workshop and Holistic Health Coaching. . To say the least, there are so many great services [...]
read more.We are so excited to announce our newest baby: Real Women. . In this section of our site, we celebrate women and all of their many shapes and sizes. Our hopes are to bring awareness to what real women look like, without airbrushing. . Please help with this mission to raise self esteem and awareness by adding your picture and story! (To see how, please [...]
read more.Confident Beginnings website has a whole new look! We hope you love our new site as much as we do. Our new site is much more interactive; you can read our new blog, add your favorite Midwife to the Midwife directory,add your very own birth story and sign our guestbook. Take some time to browse the new site. You can “subscribe” as well, so you [...]
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I am not shy about the fact that I was looking for a specific kind of experience with the birth of our child. That is not to say that I had all of the details mapped out, in fact the only birth plan I had was “To birth my baby at home as long as it’s possible.” Also I made a request that no one [...]
Read all visitor submited stories & submit yours!When I found out I was pregnant I didn’t have a plan as to how or where I was going to deliver my baby, but I figured it would be similar to most other births I had heard about or seen. It would be in a hospital, I may use pain relief of some sort, and it would probably be a stressful experience. That’s what [...]
Read all visitor submited stories & submit yours!Wow- where to begin? I gave birth to my first baby at home in our bed which was absolutely perfect. I totally believe that pregnancy is a natural state and not something pathological which requires medical management and I believe that as women we instinctively can birth our babies just like every other female animal on the planet and that we need very little intervention. [...]
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