You are here: Home / Archives for International Academy of Baby Planner Professionals

Why Eating During Labor Should Not Be Forbidden

In the movies and on TV, laboring women are often depicted as panting, sweaty and sucking on ice chips. Luckily, that image can finally change! After years of food and fluid intake being restricted for women in labor, there has been a closer scientific look at this practice and the ban has been (somewhat) lifted. [...]

[Continue reading...]

Redefining Super Mom

written by Mary Oscategui You are a super mom, if you are a mother who works full time, takes care of your household duties and your children. You juggle between work, family, social life, and if you’re lucky your well-being. In addition you are praised for handling as much as humanly possible while maintaining it [...]

[Continue reading...]

Maternity Institute Welcomes Child Sleep Expert of Babies to Sleep, Karen Schwarzbach

Press Release For Immediate Release: Friday, April 5, 2013 Media Contact: Mary Oscategui: 415-937-1602 or info@maternityinstitute.com   Maternity Institute Welcomes Child Sleep Expert of Babies to Sleep, Karen Schwarzbach   The International Maternity Institute (IMI), a leading maternity and birth educating organization represented in twenty-six countries, welcomes Karen Schwarzbach, child sleep expert of Babies To [...]

[Continue reading...]

Getting Stronger for Labor with Sleep

an interview with Mary Oscategui for Pregnancy and Newborn Magazine (for highlights of this interview purchase Pregnancy and Newborn magazine’s April 2013 issue)   Why is it important for an expecting mama to try to catch her 40 winks? From the moment a woman becomes pregnant; her body is undergoing many physiologic and biochemical changes. [...]

[Continue reading...]

Mom on a Mission to Revolutionize the Child Sleep Consultant Industry

Typically child sleep consultants are known to work with parents during postpartum to provide “sleep training”, tools, resources, and education in order to get their child to sleep. Sleep Training is most commonly introduced when an infant reaches four months of age or shortly thereafter. Occasionally families begin introducing sleep training earlier on, however very little [...]

[Continue reading...]

Interested in Maternity Nutrition?

by Sara Spears, IMI Maternity Nutrition Coach Instructor Years ago, on my wedding day, my brand-new husband and I stopped at a fast food drive-thru on the way to our reception.  My, how things have changed. It wasn’t long after that day that I began to wonder about where our food comes from, and how [...]

[Continue reading...]

How Fear Affects Labor and What You Can Do About It

by Debra Flashenberg, IMI Advisory Board Member and Guest Blogger During a recent yoga class I was taking, my teacher discussed our  natural reaction to fear. She explained that students tend to make their poses smaller and constrict themselves when they are fearful of doing  the pose.  For example, they are afraid to shift their [...]

[Continue reading...]

Is Antibacterial Soap Making Your Kids Fat? How Hormone Disruptors Wreak Havoc on Health

by Beth Greer IMI Advisory Board Member, Bestselling author, Environmental Health Advocate, Corporate Wellness Consultant As appeared on Huffington Post – Posted: 12/19/2012 12:12 pm (Original article can be viewed here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beth-greer/triclosan-health_b_2246454.html)   “Almost 40 percent of my 4- and 5-year-olds are obese,” said Stephen P. Bolduc, M.D., who’s been practicing pediatrics for 32 years, [...]

[Continue reading...]

Understanding the Different Methods of Childbirth Education

by Debra Flashenberg, IMI Advisory Board Member and Guest Blogger A student asked me the other day how she should pick a birthing  class. Her doctor had suggested she take one in preparation for her  upcoming birth. She explained how overwhelmed she started to feel while  she researched the different styles and methods of classes [...]

[Continue reading...]

Q&A: Green New Year’s Resolution Ideas with Alexandra Zissu

Question: Alexandra, New Year’s is here and I’m looking for simple ways to green my life. Do you have some ideas? Thanks, Ron Answer: Hi Ron, Happy almost New Year! I’m glad to hear about the changes you want to make for 2013. Simple steps add up, especially if we all take them. One easy [...]

[Continue reading...]
«Older Posts

Featuring Recent Posts WordPress Widget development by YD