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Pamela Sauls, AAHCC, CMT
- Sep 9, 2020
- 8 min
Christ centered "birth"day during Covid_19
There are countless couples I have helped prepare for labor, in a multitude of ways, over the last thirty years. There are also those extra special couples of whom I share the love of Jesus with. Tony and Emily are devoted Christians. They're confident in not only their faith, but also in their decision making. They would tell you that's because they regularly take their concerns and petitions to the Lord in prayer (not just in the aspect of labor and birth), but in gener
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Pamela Sauls, AAHCC, CMT
- Aug 17, 2019
- 9 min
Arrived 10cm -you won’t believe what happened next?
Meet Charlotte Ramberg. Busy counselor by day, wife and mom to a busy toddler by night. First allow me to preface, often times, medical staff expects to encounter women who are no where near having a baby, but acting like they are and therefore, things don’t always happen as quickly as they should. In childbirth class, I call this their Oscar winning performance. Then there are my star students, comprised of Your Birth Helper trained, 12 weeks of Bradley Method® natural birth
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Pamela Sauls, AAHCC, CMT
- May 2, 2019
- 4 min
Easter Sunday Stryker
Our own Nikki Reeves, happened to be teaching a childbirth class at Emory- Decatur hospital when she found herself giving a live demo on PROM, commonly known as, premature rupture of membranes. It seems as so many babies love to do, her plans for Easter Sunday would be crashed. But, before we move forward and exchange the Stork with the Easter Bunny, let's go backward to what led up to this special day. Nikki was selected as a YBH candidate to train in our elite Doula Appre
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Pamela Sauls, AAHCC, CMT
- Apr 22, 2019
- 5 min
Perseverance Pays Off
Readers, meet Melody of Monroe, North Carolina and be encouraged. She just “gave birth” to her first child on Friday, April 19, 2019. I emphasize giving birth, because SHE put in the work necessary to bring forth life. Even though she had a hospital birth, as so many first time moms do, she did not have her baby delivered from her body by a doctor. Melody and her husband, Wilson had educated, trained and prepared for this very day for 9 months. She knew what to expect and
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Pamela Sauls, AAHCC, CMT
- Jan 28, 2019
- 2 min
Why not get your Labor Practice On?
Couples demonstrate proper squatting and learn how to protect the uterine ligaments and how Dad can help! Shown on the left our #AthensDoulaDreamTeam Doula Apprentice, Nikki Reeves, her husband Todd and their surprise gender baby! In some workshops, we not only talk about how consuming dates can shorten your labor, (ACOG tested) we taste and try them, as well! Special thanks to Doula Apprentice, Dianna Rutledge for treating the class to Dates her way “stuffed with cheese” #YU
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Pamela Sauls, AAHCC, CMT
- Dec 26, 2018
- 7 min
YourBirthHelper's 2018 Birth of the Year
This birth was chosen for our YBH Charlotte Birth of the Year, for many unique reasons. First, watching this couple labor together, moved me and others in the room to tears, literally! Second, the husband coach, Wes unknowingly helped write his own birth story. Normally, I write the birth story from the perspective of Doula, in combination with sharing answers to questions I ask the couple, along with educational information that applies, as to better prepare other couple'
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Pamela Sauls, AAHCC, CMT
- Dec 22, 2018
- 4 min
Congrats Sarah Neri, YBHCE #CharlotteDoulaDreamTeam
-SEE BELOW FOR UPDATES>>> Original post: Sarah originally moved to the queen city in order to attend culinary arts school at Johnson & Wales University. I also met Jorge within my first year of moving to Charlotte and later fell in love and married all shortly after completing my Culinary Degree. A couple of months after marrying, with the support of my husband, together, we were preparing to move for a one in a lifetime career opportunity to Augusta, Georgia, home of the M
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Pamela Sauls, AAHCC, CMT
- Dec 8, 2018
- 8 min
VBAC Victory in the Queen City
When I first spoke to Erik and Emma over the phone, we had a lengthy telephone consultation in which they picked my brain on VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) and the how to's of being successful. They wanted to explore other options than simply scheduling a repeat c-section. Her first labor she experienced early contractions, but a belly birth followed, because it was found her first baby was in a breech position at 34 weeks. Her doctors did not birth vaginal breech. Al
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Pamela Sauls, AAHCC, CMT
- Nov 17, 2018
- 7 min
Partial Water Birth
This wasn't Alice & Forrest Comartos' first rodeo, but being extremely busy business owners and parents of two other children, her mama brain seemed to forget just about everything she had learned in her Bradley Method® all those years ago. It happens! I used a pelvis from her last birth center appointment (had Alice hold it up herself) to demonstrate the opening the baby has to escape and why I needed her up and active to bring forth positive changes, especially as a tiny
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Pamela Sauls, AAHCC, CMT
- Nov 4, 2018
- 8 min
My Labor was more difficult than a triathlon
Meet Kate Holbrook! Photographed in the clouds, just 3 days prior to giving birth. She successfully climbed the tallest mountain in the state, full-term and in sandals, I might add. Since our YBH blog has readers from various parts of the world, let me be a little more descriptive. For those of you not familiar, Brasstown Bald is the highest point in the U.S. state of Georgia. Located in northeast Georgia, the mountain at the highest peak is, 4,783 feet above sea level. It
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Pamela Sauls, AAHCC, CMT
- Oct 14, 2018
- 7 min
3 steps to being a Happy Camper during pregnancy, labor and birth
Dear World, welcome Miss Elliana MaeBelle! She is one happy camper! Let me tell you why... her mama ate right, exercised, stayed clear of harmful things to carry her full term and remained healthy and low risk throughout. Elliana weighed in at 6lbs. 6oz., 19.5 inches long to proud parents, Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Mosher. Here are a few other fun facts, believe it or not, her parents met on e-harmony! She was also named after her maternal great grandma, "Belle" and the same name
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