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I guess I am mentally ready to quit smoking and for good. I found this place through the Partens Magazine my fiance's baby-mama got me for my birthday (I was pregnant when she got me the subscription). I unfortunately lost my first baby. I don't know what the cause was but I know my doctors told me that 20% of miscarriages are caused from smoking. I have a hard time thinking that is what casued me to lose my baby since there are so many other factors that could have played into it. It's funny wh… Continue

Posted on April 17, 2009 at 7:55am — 8 Comments

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At 3:47pm on April 23, 2009, DearLeigh said…
http://www.bradleybirth.com/TT09.aspx

Training dates. This would change your life and help you to understand how the birth industry works in this country and just how sick it is and how to avoid the pitfalls. I got tired about hearing about "I needed a c-section" or "they had to induce me" - all nonsense. Only 5% of women need a c-section and even fewer NEED to be induced. Dr.s are doing it for their own convenience and to heck if the baby gets damaged in the process. Makes me ill!
At 3:39pm on April 23, 2009, DearLeigh said…
Danielle - the training through DONA is ridiculously easy but very 'thin on the ground' in terms of info. Not enough to make you good at it in my opinion. Now the training I got as a Bradley Method Instructor from AAHCC - THAT was worth it's weight in gold and very thorough. If you go to the AAHCC website and find out when they do training in your area or thereabouts, you will be blown away by how thorough that is. They pack a LOT into a week and you are then a certified Doula Trainer - so you are MORE than a Doula - you are trained at it. The full course took me about a year to complete, but I was busy with other things too. You could do it a lot faster.
At 2:14pm on April 23, 2009, DearLeigh said…
Hello there - welcome to the group. I am 3 1/2 weeks into my cold turkey quit and it's going well. I was a smokers smoker - I would break laws for my cigarettes. I would use an asthma pump so I could smoke - ridiculous. What helped me a lot to redefine who I was and to break away from that, was www.quitsmokingonline.com - they have a free online course which makes so much sense. If you message me with your e-mail address, I'll send you the .pdf book Allen Carrs' The EasyWay to Quit Smoking - it helped Ashton Kucher and Ellen DeGeneres put them down for good. You can do this and it really isn't scary once you face it head-on, like the book and site say.
By the way, I'm a Mom of 2 and a Doula who works to help Mom's have healthy pregnancies and births. Last night they were talking about preventing autism and one of the things they suggested was to detox yourself months before getting pregnant. After all, all the eggs we have are inside us right now. I have had three miscarriages myself but we will never know if it was smoking that did it. But I would certainly stop long before I tried again. Good luck.
At 6:17pm on April 16, 2009, Danielle said…
I'm new to this site and hope I can find my strength in numbers here to quit smoking and hope I can my fiance to quit along with me.
Back in January I found out I was pregnant and it was great cause it helped me quit smoking for the few months I was pregnant. My doctors told me I should quit due to the fact that 20% of women miscarry becaues of smoking and sure enough I did. There are so many factors as to why I lost the baby but I think it would be best for my health to quit before trying again.
 
 

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