The iCare Course (Improving Childbirth Awareness for a Richer Experience) outlines everything you will need to know for a successful pregnancy and birth. After you have completed the classes, you will be fully informed about the interventions that you may encounter in the hospital in labor, and you will know how to avoid the unnecessary use of them. You will know how to have the safest and richest birth experience you can have.

HypnoBirthing^® - The Mongan Method is a unique method of relaxed, natural childbirth education, enhanced by hypnosis techniques, that allows women to use their natural instincts to bring about a safer, easier, more comfortable birthing in a way that most mirrors nature. As a birthing method, HypnoBirthing^® is as new as tomorrow and as old as ancient times. This five-session course is the only childbirth education course you'll need. Pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding are all included.

Taking care of yourself prenatally shouldn't end when you have the baby or when you stop breastfeeding. It should continue on throughout your life. After all, who looks out for you? We, as women, need to look out for each other. I will try to keep you abreast of the latest information on women's health and try to make sense of all the latest data that can sometimes be contradictory or become obsolete.

Reiki is a laying-on of hands healing technique thought to be thousands of years old. Allegedly, it originated as a Tibetan Buddhist practice that was rediscovered in the late 1800's by Dr. Mikao Usui, a Japanese Buddhist. It is a very simple yet powerful healing art that can be used on yourself as well as others and can easily be learned by everyone.

Reflexology, or zone therapy, is the practice of massaging, squeezing, or pushing on parts of the feet, or sometimes hands and ears, in order to encourage a beneficial effect on some other parts of the body or to try to improve general health. The concept is that areas on the foot correspond to other areas of the body, and that manipulating these can improve health. Some practitioners believe these zones reflect energy (Qi), and that blockages of energy in the body are reflected through "grit" or "lumps" on the foot.

Ask My Mom is a blog intended to inform readers of the latest information in birthing, babies, breastfeeding, nutrition, and alternative health and well-being. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. If you don't, then sit back and enjoy the blogs. I write to delight and enlight; that's right!

Doulas to Diapers is run by Donna Linton, a licensed HypnoBirthing Childbirth Educator and Labor & Postpartum Doula. She is also a certified Hypnotist, Reiki I Master and practicing Reflexologist.