Episode 44:Preparing Mentally and Physically for Delivery and Beyond

Sunit interviews Ashley Walburn of www.homeholistic.com

 

Ashley is the mother of four boys. She has a Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, and teaches prenatal yoga and natural childbirth classes  at her yoga studio, Home holistic in Overland Park Kansas. She is a birth doula and has attended over 650 births. She loves supporting and empowering women as a counselor, a yoga teacher and a doula. 

 

Today Sunit and Ashley discuss:

- how to take our power back as moms, before we even have a baby

-the difference between a midwife and a doula

-why someone should hire a doula, and who may not need one

-why prenatal yoga is the best thing you can do for your body while pregnant, and how it prepares you for labour and delivery

 

Ashley gives her top tips of ways you can nurture and physically prepare your body for childbirth

 

Sunit brings up what she is seeing as a big lack in new and expecting moms and they discuss how to be empowered and confident as a mom

 

Go hang out with Ashley on the Home Holistic page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hOMeholistic/

 

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