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Fort Worth Birth Center Opening
"I officially have a birth center in Fort Worth!!! Bring on the mama's! :)"That was the May 5 post on Facebook by Beautiful Beginnings Midwifery: Center for Birth & Women's Health. However, calls and interviews for the Fort Worth birth center had already been coming in for a number of months.
You can choose to have your baby in several different places; many mommies choose to welcome their little ones to the world right at home. It is nice to have someone you can trust there helping you through the amazing process of natural childbirth.
Amanda Prouty is a certified professional midwife with a tranquil demeanor. She has helped a great number of mothers through a peaceful labor experience that reduces stress on both the mother as well as the fragile new baby.

Superior Service
Beautiful Beginnings Midwifery: Center for Birth & Women's Health offers you the comfort of delivering your baby at home or in the birth center. This birth center offers "a safe, gentle environment for maternity care for prenatal, labor, birth and the postpartum period."
The Beautiful Beginnings Midwifery: Center for Birth & Women's Health offers a number of quality services, including:
• Standard prenatal blood tests are conducted to ensure optimal health of both the mother and the child, including gestational diabetes, genetic testing, GBS and more.
• New mothers are provided with nutritional counseling. In addition, you will also be educated on pregnancy and childbirth. You will also learn everything you need to know about successfully breastfeeding your new little one.
• In addition to the midwifery services present throughout your labor and birthing experience, a birth assistant who is certified in CPR will also be on hand to help if necessary.
• The Beautiful Beginnings Midwifery: Center for Birth & Women's Health is experienced in water births.
• Once you little one arrives, he or she will be given a newborn exam. In addition, newborn care and postpartum are is provided for the first six weeks. On your final postpartum appointment, you will be given a well-woman exam, including Pap screening.

Why Choose Beautiful Beginnings?
The Beautiful Beginnings Midwifery: Center for Birth & Women's Health provides holistic care to women and newborns. The center cares about a new mother's needs.
At The Beautiful Beginnings Midwifery: Center for Birth & Women's Health, they believe that childbirth is the most natural event in a woman's life. Having your baby with the help of the professionals at the Beautiful Beginnings Midwifery: Center for Birth & Women's Health is ideal if you desire natural, personal care throughout your entire pregnancy, during childbirth and even after your new baby is born.
Research into natural childbirth has revealed that it is safer for both the mother and the child. If you live in the Fort Worth area and you are considering natural childbirth, it is important to know all the options that are available to you. The Beautiful Beginnings Midwifery: Center for Birth & Women's Health is located in the hospital district at 1614 Mistletoe Boulevard, Fort Worth, Texas. Call today to find out more.

A balanced diet is important to support good health throughout your life. However, when you become pregnant, a healthy diet is even more crucial. The foods that you consume are your baby's primary source for nutrients.
It may take a little bit of effort to eat healthy foods during your pregnancy, but the benefits to both you and your baby are well worth the trouble. If you are pregnant and you have not been maintaining a healthy diet, it is time to change your bad habits and do what is best for your new baby.
Before you ever become pregnant is the best time to start eating all the right foods. When you practice a healthy diet before your pregnancy, you are laying the proper foundation to ensure that you and your baby will both have all of the important nutrients that you need to stay healthy. If you have plans to become pregnant, you need to discuss nutrition with your health care provider.

Basic Nutrition
Even if you are not currently pregnant, your diet needs to include an adequate amount of carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins proteins and fat. When you become pregnant, the amount of these nutrients that you need will increase.
A few of the most important nutrients include:
• Calcium to help your baby build strong teeth and bones
• Iron to help red blood cells carry oxygen to your baby
• Vitamin A to help your baby form healthy eyesight and skin, in addition to aiding bone growth
• Vitamin C the ensure your baby's teeth, gums and bones are healthy, as well as helping your body with the absorption of iron
• Vitamin D to help your baby build strong teeth and bones
• Vitamin B6 for the formation of red blood cells, which help the body use carbohydrates, fat and protein
• Vitamin B12 is necessary for the formation of red blood cells and helps maintain the nervous system
• Folate is important in the production of protein and blood, in addition to helping with some enzyme function
Try eating a variety of different foods in the recommended amounts from basic food groups. This is the best way to make sure that you and you baby are getting all of the important nutrients that you need in order to remain healthy.

Additional Nutrients
Once you become pregnant, it is important to increase the amount of folic acid and iron that you consume in your regular diet. In order to get the additional nutrient that you need during this crucial time, prenatal vitamins are recommended for most pregnant women.
Prenatal vitamins are supplements that contain the recommended daily amount of the vitamins and minerals that are necessary for a healthy pregnancy. This includes copper, zinc, minerals and folic acid, as well as vitamins A, C and D. Your health care provider should be able to provide you with information specific to your needs, as taking some minerals and vitamins in excess may be harmful during pregnancy.

Special Dietary Concerns
As you are working on eating right in order to keep you and your baby healthy, you must keep a number of things in mind when you are deciding what to eat. For example, you should be aware of the special concerns regarding caffeine while you are pregnant.
Although there is no research to proving a link between caffeine intake during pregnancy and miscarriage or low birth weight, you should limit the amount of caffeine you consume for a number of other reasons. Caffeine will not only stand in the way of adequate sleep, it can also increase the severity of morning sickness. In addition, caffeine can also increase the need to urinate, leading to dehydration.

Water Birth
Water birth is an alternative to the traditional methods of childbirth. With a water birth, the mother is submerged into a tub or pool filled with warm water. The baby is delivered under the water and then brought to the surface where he or she is able to take their first breath. Babies who have been carried to the full term of nine months inside their mother in the safety of the amniotic sac are the most acceptable candidates for this birthing method.
When a new mother chooses to deliver baby through this method, an experienced health care provider, such a midwife, is present for the water birth. The mother is immersed in clean, warm water, where she moves her body and changes her position in order to ease discomfort and expedite the childbirth process.

The History of Water Birth
Back in the sixties, a Russian gentleman by the name of Igor Charkovsky make the water birth technique known in Moscow. A decade later, Michael Odent, M.D. brought the water birth method of childbirth to a hospital in France.
By the eighties, the water birth technique had spread to the United States as a result of the efforts of one Michael Rosenthal, M.D., who was responsible for establishing the first birth center in the country.

Less Stressful Labor
Water has a relaxing effect because it is warm and supporting, which is extremely beneficial for a woman who is in labor and preparing to give birth. In addition, when you are in a relaxed state, your breathing is calm, which will help to ease the pain of your contractions.
When your body becomes tense during labor, your contractions could lose rhythm, which means the labor could fail to progress as it should. Bathing in the water will help with contractions easing the stress that is felt by both you and your baby.
When you immerse yourself in the warm water, you can prepare for the birth of your child without disturbance. Dim lights and a quiet room will help you to feel more in control of your body so that you are better prepared for the process of giving birth.
The buoyancy of the water makes your body feel light and makes it easier for you to move around and get comfortable. A position that will help your baby move through the pelvis easily is best. A good rule of thumb is to ensure your knees are lower than your hips.
Just as a warm bath would relieve that pain of a tummy ache, menstrual cramps or a sore back, it will also help you cope with the pain of your contractions, as you are getting ready to bring your new baby into the world.
Once you have experience labor in a water birth pool, you will want to use the same method each time you give birth.

Giving Birth in Water
It is easier to move into an upright position that is comfortable when you are immersed in a water birth pool. Once you are upright, you have the advantage of using gravity to do the work for you. In fact, many mothers who have experienced childbirth through various methods claim that pushing a baby out in water is far easier than on land.
Supporters of the water birth method believe that transitioning to the world outside of the womb is less stressful on babies that are delivered in water. The warm waters of the water birth tub are similar to the waters the baby has gotten used to inside the uterus. Babies delivered using this method are generally calmer and cry less than babies that are born through other more traditional childbirth methods.