Category Archives: childbirth education

How to Make the Best Out of Your Hospital Birth

By Liz Derry, CPM, LM, birth doula Before the Hospital Do your homework.  Research the hospitals in the area and their common birth practices.  Do they have portable monitors for the laboring mother?  Do they have squat bars available for … Continue reading

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Jonathan’s Birth Story, Written By His Mom, Cassie

December 11, 2011 It was somewhere around the 28 week mark that it finally sank in that I was about to give birth. My most recent sonogram hit me between the eyes like a 2×4, and I realized at some … Continue reading

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The Bay Area Birth Community Center to Open November 1, 2011

(Please Note, since this entry, we have changed locations.  We are now located at 728 Elizabeth Street Suite 2, Corpus Christi, TX)       Bay Area Birth is expanding! We are opening up the Bay Area Birth Community Center on November 1, … Continue reading

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At the Right Place At the Right Time

If there is one thing I’ve learned about natural childbirth, it is that there is nothing coincidental about it.  Everything about the birth of a child, especially when left to God’s and nature’s timing, seems to happen just at the time and … Continue reading

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Why take Personalized, Private, Childbirth Classes?

        There isn’t a whole lot available in the Corpus Christi area in regards to childbirth classes. The sad truth is there is not a Bradley instructor at this time,  there is not a Hypnobabies instructor, there is not a Birthing From … Continue reading

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Bay Area Birth is a birth services company serving the Corpus Christi bay area, including but not limited to Beeville, Skidmore, Mathis, Alice, Refugio, Sinton, Taft, Portland, Ingleside, Odem, Kingsville, Aransas Pass, and Victoria.  We specialize in full in home midwifery care, … Continue reading

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