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Karen receives enthusiastic audiences during her health and wellness workshops at universities, health institutes and seminars around the U.S. She is a staff writer for Get Fresh Magazine, Vibrance Magazine, and Super Sustainable Life Magazine.

After receiving her Masters Degree in Speech Pathology from New York University, Karen has been working with children as a speech and language therapist since 1979, specializing with autistic children since 2002. In addition to speech improvement, Karen has also helped students improve their health, reducing and often eliminating the causes of attention deficit disorder, learning disability and autism.

Karen found the natural path that enabled her son to heal from asthma, chronic ear infections and multiple food allergies when he was three years old. He is now 22.

Website: SuperHealthyChildren.com

Imagine being able to understand why your baby is crying by being able to read and understand her signs. As you will see in this video, this skill has literally saved children’s lives. Being able to communicate with your baby at these earlier stages lets us into our baby’s world early and we may discover that our little angels are capable of communicating with us about much more than we ever realized!

By putting your email address in the side bar to the right, you will gain instant access to this free ‘Baby Sign Language’ video interview. Additionally, you will get access to the entire free Conscious Parenting Summit, which starts next Tuesday, May 22nd. Last but not least, you will also get free access to the three other bonus videos that are available when you sign up for the Conscious Parenting Summit, as shown below.

Bonus #1 – Jean Liedloff Interview
	Please enjoy this free, hour-long very special interview with the legendary Jean Liedloff, author of the classic “Continuum Concept” book, which highlights the benefits of babies being held in arms for the first months of life. Jean passed over recently and we feel blessed to still be able to access her powerful wisdom this way. We consider this one of the best interviews that she ever shared.

Bonus #2 – Joseph Chilton Pearce Interview
	Listen to the legendary Joseph Chilton Pearce as he discusses the vital role of play for the development of intelligence.

Bonus #3 – Dr. Dean Edell
	Learn the truth about circumcision and how it affects the lives of boys and men in this NOCIRC 20-Minute Educational Video featuring Dr. Dean Edell.

With a smile I said out loud, “OH! Oria has to go to the bathroom!” So I took her over to the kitchen sink, I helped her to pee and then I came back. My friend looked at me in astonishment and asked if I made it to the sink in time. I chuckled and said, “Of course I did! What are you talking about?! She just told me she had to go to the bathroom.”

Before I go deeper into this “DiaperFree” concept, I am going to tell you straight off the bat that the elimination techniques that we use with Oria are so much easier and way more convenient compared to any diaper wearing technique out there. It’s as convenient as breastfeeding is compared to formula bottle feeding where you have to warm unnatural food up instead of just rolling over in bed and giving your child a breast.

Just like after we read Laura Shanley’s book, “Unassisted Childbirth”, we were convinced to do an unassisted childbirth, it was Ingrid Bauer’s book, “DiaperFree”, that made it obvious to us that using diapers was a big, obvious “no”. If you read “DiaperFree”, I am pretty confident that you wouldn’t even think to put a diaper on your child either.

To order “DiaperFree: by Ingrid Bauer”, click HERE.

How did I know that Oria had to go to the bathroom when my friend was over?

Read the rest here: http://www.therawfoodworld.com/blog/?p=3020

Waterbirth is simple. Within the simplicity of water labor and birth lies a complexity of questions, choices, opinions, research data, women’s experience and practitioner observations.

Over the past five years, as more hospitals within the United States examined waterbirth and created programs to support the use of water for labor and birth, newspaper reporters latched onto the sensationalism of this simple option and published stories of successful waterbirths in local publications.

Reporters do their best to simplify waterbirth and at the same time answer the most common questions. Each story shows a happy, beaming mother, a quiet, peaceful baby and a proud father, who usually successfully sets up a portable birth pool. The surprise headlines like “Watery Birth” or “Baby’s Birth Goes Swimmingly” or “Junior Makes a Splashy Entrance” are count ered with the simple stories of couples who have made this decision for themselves and are proud of it.

The first and foremost question in everyone’s mind and the lead in all these newspaper accounts is simple: How does the baby breathe during a waterbirth?

Inhibitory Factors

Several factors prevent a baby from inhaling water at the time of birth. These inhibitory factors are normally present in all newborns. The baby in utero is oxygenated through the umbilical cord via the placenta, but practices for fu ture air breathing by moving his/her intercostal muscles and diaphragm in a regular and rhythmic pattern from about ten weeks gestation on. The lung fluids that are present are produced in the lungs and are similar chemically to gastric fluids. These fluids come up into the mouth and are normally swallowed by the fetus. There is very little inspiration of amniotic fluid in utero.

Twenty-four to forty-eight hours before the onset of spontaneous labor, the fetus experiences a notable increase in the prostaglandin E2 levels from the placenta which causes a slowing down or stopping of the fetal breathing movements (FBM).1With the work of the musculature of the diaphragm and intercostal muscles suspended, there is more blood flow to vital organs, including the brain. You can see the decrease in FBM on a biophysical profile, as you normally see the fetus moving these muscles about 40 percent of the time. When the baby is born and the prostaglandin level is still high, the baby’s muscles for breathing simply don’ t work, thus engaging the first inhibitory response.

A second inhibitory response is the fact that babies are born experiencing acute hypoxia or lack of oxygen. It is a built-in response to the birth process. Hypoxia causes apnea and swallowing, not breat hing or gasping. If the fetus were experiencing severe and prolonged lack of oxygen, it may then gasp as soon as it was born, possibly inhaling water into the lungs.2 If the baby were in trouble during the labor, there would be wide variabilities noted in the fetal heart rate, usually resulting in prolonged bradycardia, which would cause the practitioner to ask the mother to leave the bath prior to the baby’s birth.

The temperature differential is another factor thought by many to inhibit the newborn from initiating the breathing response while in water. The temperature of the water is so close to maternal temperature that it prevents any detection of change within the newborn. This is an area for reconsideration after increasing reports of births taking place in the oceans, both now and in eras past. Ocean temperatures are certainly not as high as maternal body temperature, yet babies that are born in these environments are reported to be just fine. The lower water temperatures do not stimulate the baby to breathe while immersed.

Read more from the source document here: http://www.waterbirth.org/assets/documents/Waterbirth_Basics.pdf