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For Dads and other Birth Partners | Deliver! books

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We help babies get born! For Dads and other Birth Partners. For Dads and other Birth Partners. A Concise Guide to Helping the Woman You Love Through Labor,. Is a concise, straight-talking field guide to labor support written expressly for men. Overwhelmingly, moms-to-be would like their male partners to accompany them as they experience labor and birth. But too often men don’t know how best to help and have a hard time finding resources developed specifically for them. And yet while birth books for women...

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The First Hour of Life | Deliver! books

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We help babies get born! For Dads and other Birth Partners. In some countries, men are still unwelcome in the delivery room. Dad mines birth suport for humor, gets grief →. The First Hour of Life. April 2, 2014. Yet numerous studies show that a full first hour of skin-to-skin contact promotes:. The transition from fetal to newborn life with greater respiratory stability. The baby maintaining body temperature. Less crying, indicating lower stress. Better brain development and attachment. Click to share on...

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Playlists | Deliver! books

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We help babies get born! For Dads and other Birth Partners. Music can change how we feel about the spaces we’re in. You can use this to your advantage when you go into labor – and turn an otherwise sterile and anonymous hospital room into something a little more like home. And if you’re home, of course, music can help put you in that zone of comfort and contentedness that’s a great way to begin your journey to birth. The Classic Comfort Playlist:. Let it Be: The Beatles. Blackbird: The Beatles –. Here Co...

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The Internet as fuel for the curious and the crazy | SimonFirth.com

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Ten random observations on seeing Richard Diebenkorn The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966 at the De Young, San Francisco. A Gen X remembrance of Lou Reed →. October 4, 2013 · 6:31 pm. The Internet as fuel for the curious and the crazy. 8220;You want to know how bad this craziness is? Google on the ‘secret plan’ by Obama to get a third and fourth term; and Google on all these recent acts of violence being ‘red flag’ events that the government is secretly behind. Millions of people bel...Supposed experts aren&#82...

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Ten random observations on seeing Richard Diebenkorn – The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966 at the De Young, San Francisco | SimonFirth.com

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Silicon Valley architecture on an upswing? The Internet as fuel for the curious and the crazy →. September 27, 2013 · 6:26 pm. Ten random observations on seeing Richard Diebenkorn The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966 at the De Young, San Francisco. Nearly every piece in the show. Is both sui generis. Although that’s sometimes subtle, given his imitators) and stunning. A discovery: Diebenkorn’s simple, sensual charcoal figure drawings. Roughly 75 % of the people viewing the show were women. Click to share on Twi...

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For Moms | Deliver! books

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We help babies get born! For Dads and other Birth Partners. Moms and moms-to-be, before too long we’ll be offering you. The best birthing class you never took. It will take you though all the material that you’d cover in a typical birthing class. It’s a great primer for anyone unable to attend a class in person or who took one for an earlier birth, and the perfect take-home companion for any class that you do take. Click to email (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). To download...

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Chapters | Deliver! books

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We help babies get born! For Dads and other Birth Partners. Here’s a list of the chapter titles in. A concise guide to helping the woman you love through labor. 1 Why Labor Support? 2 The Last Few Months. 3 The Last Few Weeks. 4 Birth Plans, a Good or Bad Idea? 5 From Birth Preferences to Birth Team. 6 Medication and Communication With Your Professional Helpers. 7 Early labor – She’s Contracting! 10 You’ve got a Baby! Pushing through to delivery. Appendix 1 Complications and Interventions. A physician an...

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My book | SimonFirth.com

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I’m the co-author of. A Concise Guide to Helping the Woman You Love Through Labor. A book aimed at birth-partners and written with childbirth educator and doula Julie Dubrouillet. It’s available in paperback. Is designed to be a quick read that can help birth partners make a positive impact on their loved one’s labor. It’s primarily written with men in mind, as they make up the vast majority of partners at birth. That they will find valuable, too. You can find out more about Deliver! Click to share on Tu...

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A Gen X remembrance of Lou Reed | SimonFirth.com

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The Internet as fuel for the curious and the crazy. October 27, 2013 · 9:02 pm. A Gen X remembrance of Lou Reed. A warm early Autumn night in a verdant back garden on England’s South Coast. Apple trees, candles, wine, and a new crowd, and, for the first time in my experience, kids smoking cigarettes that were sweet and aromatic. My guess is that I was invited because I was the putative singer in a new wave rock band. We were called the Idle Frets. Jack is in his corset, and Jane is in her vest, and, me.