Insurance paying for Doulas Services!

News! Good News!
Many hesitate whether to hire a doula because of their cost. Now this is eliminated.
Female presence of a doula at your birth helps you and your baby to stay calm and do the job of labor is a safe and comfortable way.

Over twenty insurance companies have begun paying for doula services and, now that there is a CPT code covering doula services, this is more of a possibility than ever before. (CPT stands forCurrent Procedural Terminology, and is a copyright of the American Medical Association.) The CPT code commonly used to claim doula services is 99499 for Evaluation and Management Services/Labor Support.

The following is a partial list of insurance companies have reimbursed in whole or in part for doula services.

Aetna Healthcare

AltPro

Baylor Health Care System/WEB TPA

Blue Cross/Blue Shield

Blue Cross/ Blue Shield PPO

Cigna

Degussa, a German Chemical Company

Elmcare, LLC, C/O North American Medical Management

Foundation for Medical Care

Fortis Insurance

Glencare Managed Health Inc.

Great-West Life & Annuity Ins. Co.

HNTB (Peoria, IL)

Houston New England Financial, Employee Benefits (Fort Scott, KS)

Lutheran General Physician’s Organization

Maritime Life

Medical Mutual

Oschner HMO, Louisiana

Professional Benefits Administrators

Prudential Healthcare

Qualchoice

Summit Management Services, Inc

Travelers

United HealthCare of Georgia (San Antonio, TX)

United Health POS

Wausau Benefits, Inc

Water or Land?

Midwives at hospitals observed a difference in the babies born in water as opposed to those born regularly in a bed. "We can tell which babies have been born in water. They are like little grown-ups. You know they understand you. It’s very special to be with them."

Egyptians birthed selected babies underwater. It is believed these babies became priests and priestesses. Or was it because those selected mothers were wealthy and more educated and knew and could afford themselves the benefits of water birth?

In the Minoan ruins, art on frescoes reflect dolphins and the special connection with humans and water. Minoans on the island of Crete are said to have used a sacred temple for water birth.

Our first 9 months of life took place in the womb of waters. Sounds of the ocean’s waves simulate the blood rushing through the placenta.

Well, consider: water is an environment of smooth transition for the baby. Mothers report pleasant sensations, no tears, or swelling, and enjoyable peaceful birth instead of agonizing pain of hospital birth.

Which one would you choose?

The use of water is considered among moms and midwives the safest way of birthing the baby. Why not in a hospital? Why don't doctors consider the birth of a baby in water the best way for replicating the environment of the womb, and consider it as an alternative for episiotomy and epidural. Even thought water birth is not covered by insurance, in a long run it comes out much less expensive for the human society, considering the consequences in baby development differences between the babies born in water and 'on land.'

Being educated about your birth choices is the most important responsibility of becoming a parent.

Cord Blood

Collecting blood from the baby is not really a correct procedure, although extremely popular in hospitals.

Here is an article shared by a midwife who over the years of her work collected blood (click here to read the full article).

The baby comes out of the mother's womb with about 1/3 of the baby's blood supply. Why take the blood that belongs to the baby away from the baby complying with the hospital procedure?

"After birth the blood from the placenta transfers to the baby, assisting transition to breathing. ...Parents need to be informed that cord blood collection requires premature cord clamping, and that the blood being collected belongs to their baby." Comments the author.

Why Artificial Oxytocin During Labor Is Bad For All?

Why the approved use of the unapproved drug called Pitocin is bad for you?
Pitocin is chemically produced Oxytocin. When labor is stalled, or delayed, artificial induction with this drug is used to speed up labor. The labor started with Pitocin quickly progresses to a series of strong hardly controllable contractions accompanied by sensations of discomfort and emotional instability.

A recent study discussed in the "Doula International" Magazine links the use of Pitocin to elevated statistics of autism.

The article says that the labor and birth induced with artificial synthetic oxytocin, rob the woman and her child of the natural production of it in their brains and therefore, destroy the emotional link between the mother and the baby.

Later in life this link is non-existent when the forming identity of the child has no reference point about major human concepts of "love", "bond", and the child is emotionally disconnected from mother.

To read the full article click here.

Some Local Hospital Statistics

I just read about birth statistics from one New York Hospital. Absolutely appalling!


NY Presbyterian Hospital-- New York Weill Cornell Center

48.8% episiotomy

39.6 % of all births are c-section (37.2% are first time c-sections)

96.4% of vaginal births include epidural

79.7% of babies are given formula in the hospital

What Time Of Day Will Your Baby Be Born?

What's your guess, when will your labor begin?

When student moms start their HypnoBirthing class with me, I ask them to use their imagination planning their birth and describe it.  One of the moms described her labor start at 11:30am, on a Saturday. Actually,  her labor began on Saturday morning, but very early in the wee hours.

So what does research show us? Why so many of the family lore includes rushing to the hospital at 3 a.m.?

Chronobiology is a relatively new profession. It studies the human body rhythm throughout life, on a yearly basis, and from month to month, day to day and throughout the day. Part of this study includes the rhythm of our body throughout the day, called circadian rhythm, and even in much smaller increments, throughout the hour, called ultradian rhythm. Without taking you into semantics of the titles let me explain the research showing that spontaneous labor in human starts around and after midnight.

Birth is a body's natural progression, so as soon as mother enters into a safe mode of rest in a safe place, the baby knows it is a good time to come out.  A study in 1979 on labor of more than 200,000 women shows that 20% more babies ar born between 2-6am than between 2-6pm. Later studies involving 2 mil. women support night birthing.

Studies also show the same progression for second and third babies. Additionally, same studies show that on average the length of labor for those starting laboring at night take 2 hours less than those starting labor after dawn.

Speaking of hospital births, be aware, that most artificially induced births happen on a Tuesday, and none on weekends. Doctors schedules usually greatly contribute to this pattern.

Natural births occur more often on Saturday or a Sunday, according to a study in 1997 involving births among the US women.

If you want to know more about your body learn to give yourself positive suggestions. When you are tired, rest, when you are emotional, relax. Relax more often than before pregnancy or more often during the day. Listen to your body and  it will pay you off handsomely during peaceful labor.


Morrin is available for further information and discussion of your personal preparation to your labor.

Magical Child - Your Baby

Today I conducted a session for a pregnant mother of transpersonal connection between her unborn baby and herself, called Mother-Baby Connection(tm).

She was in hypnosis for over 1.5 hours and delivered back an incredible wealth of information from her higher consciousness guidance, besides coming back  completely relaxed,  rested, refreshed and filled with energy.

But wait, you are not familiar with it. Let me explain.

Using hypnosis is possible to create a state of consciousness when your critical factor is subdued and your awareness of a bigger picture and of your role in the universe comes to the forefront. This is a self-deepening state and it is particularly amazing for pregnant mothers.

I use higher consciousness during pregnancy to uncover for mothers their inner wisdom and strengths and to eliminate fears of all kind, that so bother humanity (and not just birthing fears).

It is interesting that I find over and over again that a pregnant woman are much more hypnotizable and achieve deeper and faster results than any other categories of population. Her critical factor is helping her go deeper, because she is motivated.

So back to the mom today.

Her baby's energy is female and she now knows her name. (She wanted to know all that.)
In addition, the pregnant mom uncovered that her baby chose her for being able to assist the baby with fulfilling her purpose when she grows up (she got the details of that purpose as well). Mom was very pleased with the results of her session. She unveiled the role of her son (first born) and herself in the bigger universal picture, and particularly her husband had a very distinct role in the whole sceme of things. It was awesome. After mom opened her eyes she was in awe how everything just comes into place, and her questions were answered.

She got instructions from her unborn baby on how to approach labor. This is her second baby and the labor for the second time is going to be very different. (The first one was a hospital birth this one is a prepared home birth).

This process is a deep trance awareness process based on Higher awareness described by Michael Newton in Journey of Souls, and Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy, and a greater purpose approach, which is described by Joseph Chilton Pearce in his incredible book Magical Child.

If you are interested in the spiritual discovery or in your own Mother-Baby Connection(tm) call me.

By the way, I highly recommend Magical Child for better parenting. It's a great book and a beautiful idea.