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The epi-no can be your perineum's best friend as you prepare in pregnancy for childbirth.

The epi-no developed from traditional African culture where women insert different sized calabashes into their vagina to stretch the pelvic floor muscles in preparation for childbirth, to help prevent or avoid tearing or the need for an episiotomy.

In this video, I explain how to use the epi-no and why more pregnant mamas should use this medical device. It is important to note that use of the epi-no is no substitute for medical advice and that when using it, that you do not feel any pain.

If you do not have access to an epi-no, then you might want to try doing daily perineal massage manually, using your thumb and forefinger, massaging the perineum between your fingers with some natural-based oil, such as coconut or almond oil. This can also be done twice daily (from 36 weeks) for two to five minutes each time. Perineal massage has its benefits, as it gets you more in touch with your body - and you need to know your body well when you prepare for childbirth, in addition to softening the tissues to allow for more stretching in childbirth.

You may even choose to do perineal massage and epi-no training in conjunction to each other, as both have their unique benefits.

Please feel free to ask any questions you might have in the comment box below.

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Relax Into Birth with doula Charlene Yared West.
BIRTH DOULA. POSTPARTUM DOULA. HYPNOBIRTHING CHILDBIRTH EDUCATOR. FOUNDER OF RELAX INTO BIRTH. HYPNOTHERAPIST.
FREELANCE JOURNALIST. MOTHER.
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Charlene Yared West of Relax Into Birth Online Hypnobirthing gives you a short overview of what Hypnobirthing is and how it is changing the landscape of birth - and how it can impact your birth experience for the better.
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Dr Frances Straueli and Dr Dr Chris Straueli share their birth story and how Relax Into Birth enhanced their birth experience during the start of COVID-19.
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Relax into Birth and The Virtual Midwife have joined together to bring you Relax Into Birth PLUS, a fully comprehensive antenatal course covering the medical and physiological aspects of birth, as well as the Hypnobirthing technique for a calm birth. Delivered by Midwife Karen and Doula Charlene, both highly experienced birth workers, Relax Into Birth PLUS covers an extensive range of information about pregnancy, birth and your newborn. We are here for you and will walk with you on your journey into parenthood.

What you will learn on this course

*What is best for YOU - home birth or hospital birth? What is the difference? How to prepare your environment.

*The 4 main reasons you may need an emergency cesarian and how will you know if it really is an emergency (as well as how to avoid one by knowing the 4 reasons)

*How and why hypnobirthing techniques work and how you can harness the power of your mind during pregnancy and birth.

*The skills your partner needs to be able to support you during labor and birth.

*Why medical interventions are done and what you can do to avoid them by understanding the normal variations of labor.

*How to prepare for birth (I mean that's what this is all about really, but you can't do it unless you know all that other stuff 👆🏽)

This Course is Perfect for You if Your plans have changed due to Covid and you are not clear on your options anymore. You are reading and listening to everything you can find about pregnancy and birth but you still feel unprepared. This pregnancy is just too precious to leave it up to chance and hope for the best. You are a planner and an action taker.

Check it out here: https://learn-hypnobirthing.relaxintobirth.com/courses/relax-into-birth-PLUS

I am Charlene Yared West, the founder of the Relax Into Birth Online School, a virtual space comprising a range of prenatal education courses, including a fully comprehensive antenatal course with the Virtual Midwife, Karen Wilmot, covering the medical and physiological aspects of birth, as well as the Hypnobirthing technique for a calm birth. It is the first proudly South African Online Birth Preparation School teaching women and their partners Hypnobirthing techniques and deep relaxation methods for a more comfortable and manageable birth experience at home or at hospital, for natural or caesarean birth.
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You see, my life in Birth Work all started with the birth of my son. I was terrified of the thought of birth - so afraid of it that I decided I wanted a caesarean birth. There is nothing wrong with this choice - but it is a problem if it comes from a place of fear. My husband and then my ob-gyn at the time told me to rather do some more research before settling on an elective caesarean upon request. I reluctantly followed their advice, quite irritated that two men were telling me to try for a vaginal birth I did not want. After a sequence of events, I came across the Hypnobirthing technique, found myself an independent midwife and consequently had a home waterbirth. I’m now a doula and teach Relax Into Birth and my whole life has changed since the birth of my son… His birth taught me so much; that my body is amazing, that women don’t have to fear birth, that women have options and should know about their options, that because I was now empowered I had to share that with others. Even though birth is the most intense thing you will ever endure – and will push you out of your comfort zone, YOU can do it. It is worth a try…. You never know until you’ve tried. Leave no room for questions or regret afterwards… Investigate the option of a Midwife, get a considerate pro-options/pronatural gynae and a doula and then if a Caesar is called at the end of it all you know it was a necessary one. Having said that, I also attend scheduled caesarean births - and help moms achieve a calm state for the abdominal births of their babies. I support birth in all shapes and forms. Birth is birth, no matter how a baby is born.
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After the birth of my son, I knew I had to work in this field and so I went and studied a Hypnobirthing training module, as well as became a WOMBS birth doula and subsequently a WOMBS postpartum doula. I also studied Hypnotherapy and am a qualified Hypnotherapist through the Essex Institute (UK). My background and training in Journalism brought all these skills together into the Relax Into Birth Online Hypnobirthing school. I love what I do, and I love the transformations I help my clients achieve. Transformations like having the most empowering births of their lives - and birthing free from fear - and a calm acceptance of the process when plans change. Being a doula and antenatal teacher is my why, my purpose, and what makes me jump out of bed each morning.
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Check out the Online Hypnobirthing School here:
https://learn-hypnobirthing.relaxintobirth.com/

The reason I wanted to share my story with you is because I want you to know me. And I want you to know that I can help you, too. Reach out to chat about your intentions for your birth - I am here to help you get the birth that you want.

Carina and Ross were not expecting to have a breech vaginal birth for their first daughter, Holly, who was born four weeks early during the COVID-19 lockdown. Watch them tell their exciting birth story in this episode...
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Relax into Birth is the first proudly South African Online Birth Preparation School, of international standard, teaching women and their partners Hypnobirthing techniques and deep relaxation methods for a more comfortable and manageable birth experience at home or at hospital, for natural or caeasarean births.

DO THE COURSE IN YOUR OWN TIME, WHEN YOU WANT TO! Relax Into Birth is the most comprehensive online Hypnobirthing course available and features over 250 minutes of video course content, including a ‘doula in my pocket’ guide for dads / partners and mandy downloadable audio hypnobirthing tracks and downloadable e-Books.
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Visit www.relaxintobirth.com for more info.

Kendall and Dean birthed their second baby during the COVID-19 lockdown and found the experience to be calmer than their first birth with their firstborn son, who came earlier than his estimated due date. Watch them tell their birth stories in this episode...
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Relax into Birth is the first proudly South African Online Birth Preparation School, of international standard, teaching women and their partners Hypnobirthing techniques and deep relaxation methods for a more comfortable and manageable birth experience at home or at hospital, for natural or caeasarean births.

DO THE COURSE IN YOUR OWN TIME, WHEN YOU WANT TO! Relax Into Birth is the most comprehensive online Hypnobirthing course available and features over 250 minutes of video course content, including a ‘doula in my pocket’ guide for dads / partners and mandy downloadable audio hypnobirthing tracks and downloadable e-Books.
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Visit www.relaxintobirth.com for more info.

Tertia and Mike share their home birth story of Siena, their second daughter. Their first daughter India was born in hospital. "Shortly after Susan’s arrival my waters broke on the kitchen floor - I said ‘oh shit’ & started crying again (I was not in a Zen mental space). The pool was taking forever to get ready. I waddled from the kitchen to the birth pool which was only about 5 steps. Another big push came just outside the pool. I really thought I wasn’t going to make it into the water! By the time I got in, I was very off my center, breathing like a crazy person, petrified that she was just going to shoot out and tear me from top to bottom, and while I was heaving and ho-ing I felt Susan putting her hand on my arm and saying with this beautiful smiling face in this serenely calm voice, “Tertia, this is your birth.... you are in control... slow down your breathing... put your hand between your legs and feel your baby’s head... can you feel her? ...you are in control of when she comes out”. It was like a switch went off in me. The Relax into Birth affirmations and tracks I did in the lead up to my birth, day after day, just kicked in. I became so calm and totally used my breath to control the speed at which my baby came through the birth canal. Within the next minute, my baby just popped out; no tearing. The most wonderful moment was to catch her myself and bring her to my chest. India was born into a frenetic, hospital environment where, even though it was a text book natural birth, it seemed to have the emotional current of a medical emergency. My gynae/obstetrician was shouting at me to push, the nurse was shouting in my ear to push whilst pushing down on my stomach, my poor husband was completely traumatised because he was under the impression something must be going wrong or will go wrong because everyone seemed to be in a panic. I remember shouting and screaming during delivery and needing to push and push and push – the birthing environment was not mine. Siena’s birth on the other hand was such a happy event, my husband, mom, doula and midwife were there to support and be with me. I was in the comfort of my own home, feeling loved, safe, hearing people chat to each other in a happy way, excited about meeting Siena, and me in charge of my birth in a way that I never thought would be possible. The birth was mine. I am so grateful to Charlene, Gayle, Susan and the Birth Options team. The Relax into Birth course and these amazing women held me throughout my birthing experience. We all have the snake charming ability in us, it just needs to be awakened. The mental preparation through the course, combined with these ladies’ belief in my ability & their absolute faith in the woman’s ability to birth in an empowering way is what made this experience such a healing one for me. It is such a gift. I am eternally grateful." Watch them tell their story in this episode...
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Relax into Birth is the first proudly South African Online Birth Preparation School, of international standard, teaching women and their partners Hypnobirthing techniques and deep relaxation methods for a more comfortable and manageable birth experience at home or at hospital, for natural or caeasarean births.

DO THE COURSE IN YOUR OWN TIME, WHEN YOU WANT TO! Relax Into Birth is the most comprehensive online Hypnobirthing course available and features over 250 minutes of video course content, including a ‘doula in my pocket’ guide for dads / partners and mandy downloadable audio hypnobirthing tracks and downloadable e-Books.
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Visit www.relaxintobirth.com for more info.

Tertia and Mike share their home birth story of Siena, their second daughter. Their first daughter India was born in hospital. "Shortly after Susan’s arrival my waters broke on the kitchen floor - I said ‘oh shit’ & started crying again (I was not in a Zen mental space). The pool was taking forever to get ready. I waddled from the kitchen to the birth pool which was only about 5 steps. Another big push came just outside the pool. I really thought I wasn’t going to make it into the water! By the time I got in, I was very off my center, breathing like a crazy person, petrified that she was just going to shoot out and tear me from top to bottom, and while I was heaving and ho-ing I felt Susan putting her hand on my arm and saying with this beautiful smiling face in this serenely calm voice, “Tertia, this is your birth.... you are in control... slow down your breathing... put your hand between your legs and feel your baby’s head... can you feel her? ...you are in control of when she comes out”. It was like a switch went off in me. The Relax into Birth affirmations and tracks I did in the lead up to my birth, day after day, just kicked in. I became so calm and totally used my breath to control the speed at which my baby came through the birth canal. Within the next minute, my baby just popped out; no tearing. The most wonderful moment was to catch her myself and bring her to my chest. India was born into a frenetic, hospital environment where, even though it was a text book natural birth, it seemed to have the emotional current of a medical emergency. My gynae/obstetrician was shouting at me to push, the nurse was shouting in my ear to push whilst pushing down on my stomach, my poor husband was completely traumatised because he was under the impression something must be going wrong or will go wrong because everyone seemed to be in a panic. I remember shouting and screaming during delivery and needing to push and push and push – the birthing environment was not mine. Siena’s birth on the other hand was such a happy event, my husband, mom, doula and midwife were there to support and be with me. I was in the comfort of my own home, feeling loved, safe, hearing people chat to each other in a happy way, excited about meeting Siena, and me in charge of my birth in a way that I never thought would be possible. The birth was mine. I am so grateful to Charlene, Gayle, Susan and the Birth Options team. The Relax into Birth course and these amazing women held me throughout my birthing experience. We all have the snake charming ability in us, it just needs to be awakened. The mental preparation through the course, combined with these ladies’ belief in my ability & their absolute faith in the woman’s ability to birth in an empowering way is what made this experience such a healing one for me. It is such a gift. I am eternally grateful." Watch them tell their story in this episode...
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Relax into Birth is the first proudly South African Online Birth Preparation School, of international standard, teaching women and their partners Hypnobirthing techniques and deep relaxation methods for a more comfortable and manageable birth experience at home or at hospital, for natural or caeasarean births.

DO THE COURSE IN YOUR OWN TIME, WHEN YOU WANT TO! Relax Into Birth is the most comprehensive online Hypnobirthing course available and features over 250 minutes of video course content, including a ‘doula in my pocket’ guide for dads / partners and mandy downloadable audio hypnobirthing tracks and downloadable e-Books.
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Visit www.relaxintobirth.com for more info.

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