Kick Counts!
Kick counts is a great way for moms to assess the babies overall well-being. Babies typically have a pattern of wake and sleep. As you get towards your third trimester, it’s a good idea to start recognizing your babies active hour and sleepy time. Kick counts is a way for you to track and make sure that if you notice a change in your babies patterns you can Track it with the app and make sure that you’re getting the correct amount of movements in the correct amount of time. When there’s a change in the babies pattern, it can be normal, but it can also be a time where you may need to reach out to your provider.
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JUST BREATHE
Labor is intense. Although it's as natural as breathing, it's still intense as hell. No need to fret though, because you were built for this. What does that mean? That means if you can sit back and let your body do what it needs to do, you actually don't have to do much.
The real problem or difficulty is the "sit back and let your body do what it needs to do" part. It's hard. REALLY hard. We have something called a conscious mind that really messes with that sit back portion. The conscious mind wants to control, wants to fight it, wants to flee away, and wants to think it's too much to handle.
If you just breathe....if you just remember you were built to do this job, though not easy but DO-ABLE, then you will overcome. You will birth new life; a baby and a new person within yourself. A stronger woman who is now a mother and a new life that looks to you, still, for full support to survive and thrive.