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Insurance

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Congratulations!! You took a pregnancy test and it came out positive. Then you scheduled a consult and tour at our birth center. And while you visited us, we put together an estimate for your insurance coverage. Most people really don't understand how their insurance plans actually work. I mean, they understand that they have insurance but they often don't understand why they have to pay anything out of pocket or a how we come up with the estimate, so we thought we would help break this down for you.  But first: there are different ways people obtain insurance plans. Some employers include insurance plans are a benefit to working with their company. Employers will contract with different insurance companies and each employer might offer different plans to different employees, so just because you have Cigna, as an example, it doesn't mean all Cigna plans are the same. Also, some people purchase their own insurance plans directly from insurance companies or from the Marketpla...
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Posterior Baby??

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OPTIMAL BABY POSITIONING Adapted from "Sit Up and Take Notice" by Pauline Scott A baby's position can have a major influence on the kind of labor a woman experiences and the way her baby is born. Encouraging a baby to lie in the most effective position for his journey through his mother's pelvis increases chances of a spontaneous and straightforward childbirth, something that every woman hopes and prays for. And what's more, unborn babies instinctively want to move into the most effective position for birth too! What position is my baby in? Anterior Position Your baby's back is facing your front. The anterior position is the most common position and the most effective one for your baby's journey through the pelvis. The baby is either on the left or right side. Most babies prefer lying on the left side, which is the path of least resistance. Babies on the right side should be encouraged to move to the left. • Your baby's movements feel like a ro...
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Labor in and of itself

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Yesterday I had a first time mom walk in the door and have her baby within minutes, like it was nothing...(I mean physically, not emotionally). She spent little time preparing for her labor, understood the mechanics of how her body worked and frankly just didn't have the money to spend of relaxation classes. She wasn't concerned, she had faith in how it worked and that her body was capable of this awesome journey. Yet another first time mommie will come in, having scoured every pregnancy book, read every article, taken every class...she can hypnobirth herself into a trance in the middle of the grocery store, but when she goes into labor it will be a knock down drag out fight between her subconcious and her physical being. Or is it really? maybe she has a long hard labor just simply because of the mechanics of birth. The angle and attitude of the baby's head, the curve and shape of her pelvis, the strength and tone of her uterus. And she will have compared herself to the wom...
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