And now, take your left hand place over your heart, now pay attention to your heartbeat. bring the breath into the area of your heart and feel your chest rise and fall with every inhale and exhale.
your body is doing something so incredible. it's magical. it's miracle.
now bring your right hand on your belly.
I would like you to picture a loop from one hand to the other and back up again. The circle is surrounding on your two hands, and the energy is traveling along the circle. this is the energy to connect you and your baby.
inhale, send the energy down to the belly, exhale release and travel back up to the world around you
You are always physically connected to your baby.
release your hands back on your knees
A baby has just spent the last nine months in a sea of amniotic fluid and is safely attached to the placenta.
We must be flexible to create so much space in our thoughts, our bodies, and our minds, which is exactly what it takes to grow a baby. Never stretch your body so far that you hurt yourself, but do stretch your mind and your spirit further thane you thought you could ever go before, because that is exactly what you will be asked to do in your labor and in your life as a mother. The length of that stretches infinite.
Some reports suggest that babies whose mother have have epidurals are slower to feed than babies whose mother didn't have epidurals, which makes sense --they enter the world with some of the drug in their system. French researcher Michel Odent, M.D., has noted that the drugs disturb eye-to-eye contact between mother and baby, which is crucial for bonding. When researchers did an experiment with sheep , they noticed that ewes who gave birth with an epidural were completely disinterested in their lambs and wouldn't take care of them.
