How to birth a baby - Lamaze Jamestown, North Dakota

When I had my first baby I didn't know what to do with him as an infant. Talking to him felt, well...odd. I mean he was just a pooping, breastfeeding, crying ball of flesh when he was an infant. I did spend most of my time rocking and patting his bum. I didn't really talk to him. But it seems that even infants learn and react to parents talking to them and having conversations. The human brain develops more rapidly between birth and age 5 than during any other period in life. That is amazing. I recently learned about The Still Face Experiment. I found it very intriguing and insightful. Check out this video about it. It is kind of hard to watch the baby getting upset when the mom doesn't interact with her. So you can see that babies are happier when their parents talk, play and interact with them. They are less stressed. It also gives a little insight into how babies can read people and react to a negative versus a positive situation. They are more stressed and more i

I am thoroughly intrigued by breech babies. I have a friend who gave birth to a breech baby vaginally in a time and place when that just isn't done. Today if babies are breech they are delivered by cesarean with no questions asked. The art and medical procedure of delivering a breech baby vaginally is dieing out. It isn't being taught and it isn't being practiced. My friend's situation was unique in that her physician and the nurses didn't realize the baby was breech until they saw the baby's bottom coming out. By then it was too late for the alternative and her doctor safely guided her through pushing and delivering a healthy little one. I was happy for her, and even happier for her doctor (who incidentally was also my doctor for my second baby). This doctor now has that experience. This doctor has delivered a breech baby and hopefully can and will deliver more in the future. Three types of breech presentation:  Frank breech where the baby's bottom is