by Rachel Yellin | Jan 19, 2018 | Childbirth Preparation, Childbirth Resources
This is one of the best demonstrations of how the uterus works during labor to birth your baby. Mind you… consider the ping-pong ball is just representing the baby’s head!
by Rachel Yellin | Oct 16, 2017 | Childbirth Preparation, Childbirth Resources
Rachel Yellin has a purpose in life, and that is to bring joy to people giving birth in the Bay Area. She does this through childbirth classes, depth hypnosis therapy sessions and an audio relaxation program, all of which help women to feel a calmer and more able to...
by Rachel Yellin | Sep 5, 2017 | Childbirth Preparation, Childbirth Resources
When I was a kid, there was a commercial with a man in a blue-sequence martian suit, walking up to a model spaceship. In a funny space-man voice, he said: “Hi. I’m Robolar. I’m from Mars. And I eat all kinds of candy bars. (He walks over to the spaceship, and opens...
by Rachel Yellin | Aug 28, 2017 | Childbirth Preparation, Childbirth Resources
“Why Not Home?” is an excellent documentary that features hospital medical providers (OBs, Labor & Delivery Nurses, General Practitioners) who chose to give birth at home. My intention in sharing this is to further validate people who want to give birth at home,...
by Rachel Yellin | Oct 12, 2016 | Childbirth Preparation, Childbirth Resources
Michel Odent, MD, founded the Primal Health Research Centre in London and developed the maternity unit in Pithiviers, France, where birthing pools are used. He is the author of ten books published in twenty languages. Two of them—Birth Reborn and The Nature of Birth...
by Rachel Yellin | Oct 10, 2016 | Childbirth Preparation, Childbirth Resources
Giving birth in ecstasy: this is our birthright and our body’s intent. Mother Nature, in her wisdom, prescribes birthing hormones that take us outside (ec) our usual state (stasis) so that we can be transformed on every level as we enter motherhood. This...
