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Stories Of Inspiration & Empowerment: AMANI Birth Changing Lives Series

REVIVAL OF MY MOTHERHOOD - A BIRTH STORY Written By: Umm Aaqib بسم اللّٰہ الرحمن الرحيم Let's start this from the beginning... A woman's role as a mother is a highly-regarded, as well as an under-appreciated one; all at the same time. In this flawed world, we verbally admit the virtues of a mother, while disregarding her instincts and choices right from the time she conceives. Pregnancy is no longer treated as a natural process of propagation of the human race. It has become a new profitable industry, which is the result of "fake" modernization of medical industries. With two previous [...]

Sumreen Wasiq2023-01-18T09:24:11+00:00Tags: AMANI Birth Doula, Childbirth Education, Informed Pregnancy, Natural Childbirth, Stories Of Inspiration. Stories Of Empowerment|0 Comments

Testimonial Tuesdays

AMANI Birth Trainee, Aqsa Zia, shares her beautiful reflections: "AMANI is all about 'Assisting Mothers for Active, Natural, Instinctive Birth'. Birth is an individual experience which stays with the mother for the rest of her life; whether the experience may be a beautiful, natural one or a painful one. The book - AMANI Birth - is a comprehensive book for all women to read through in their path of educating themselves about their bodies, the changes that happen during pregnancy, what is labor all about and how to cope with it and importance about breast feeding. It is divided into [...]

Sumreen Wasiq2023-01-29T08:17:45+00:00Tags: AMANI Birth Doula, Childbirth Education, Testimonial Tuesdays|0 Comments

Testimonial Tuesdays

AMANI Birth Certified Childbirth Educator and Doula, Sagal Shirdon, shares her impressions after reading the AMANI Birth book, authored by Aisha Al Hajjar: "This book is a great gift for expectant mothers. It is a comprehensive book that covers everything an expecting mother and father need to know. This book covers topics such as the physiology of labor and birth, pregnancy nutrition and exercise, risks, complications, and the importance of a mother having a supportive team where a mother feels comfortable following her instincts. This book is great for parents as well as medical professionals, and doulas. It helps birth [...]

Sumreen Wasiq2023-01-29T08:24:40+00:00Tags: AMANI Birth Doula, Testimonial Tuesdays|0 Comments

Stories Of Inspiration & Empowerment: AMANI Birth Changing Lives Series

Profile: Amna Saleem, AMANI Birth Certified Childbirth Educator and Birth Doula One of Amna's clients relays her birth experience with Amna as her Doula: "It was a journey that felt like it will never end. It had been 37 weeks and I was exhausted, tired, and felt no sign of it ending any time soon. My nights felt longer and days felt shorter. Sitting down was uncomfortable and lying down was even more tedious. I would keep turning sides each time to find a comfortable position till the sun came out in the morning. Nights felt like scenes of horror [...]

Sumreen Wasiq2021-07-20T15:56:22+00:00Tags: AMANI Birth Doula, birth story|0 Comments

AMANI Birth Affiliate Spotlight: Izyan Liyana Mustafa Kamal

AMANI Birth Affiliate Number: 213932 Training Location: Kuala Lumpur Date of Training: 2013 AMANI Birth profile: https://amanibirth.com/liyana-helmy/ Why did you choose to become an AMANI doula/CBE? At first I went to AMANI Birth training because I want to overcome my birth trauma, then as I went along I felt that I needed to share what I learned with other women who may have suffered from birth trauma as well, and help them create their own beautiful birth experience. How has AMANI affected your life? It has definitely given me more confidence in my instincts and changed the way I see myself [...]

Sharon Yearwood2020-12-19T19:10:07+00:00Tags: affiliate interview, affiliate spotlight, AMANI Birth CBE, AMANI Birth Doula|0 Comments

AMANI Birth Affiliate Spotlight: Nour Hafifi

AMANI Affiliate Number (Teacher #) 533342 Training Workshop Location and Date Jeddah, December 2014 Why did you choose to become an AMANI doula/CBE? I was clueless about childbirth before my marriage and pregnancy. My only impression of birth is screaming, loud, messy, pain, pain, and more pain. When I was pregnant with my first born, all I know is that I didn’t want to feel pain or medication. No one I spoke to believe in this idea, and my mum wasn’t helpful in preparing me although she had four unmedicated birth. She said, "It just feels like you are going [...]

Sharon Yearwood2020-05-15T12:39:48+00:00Tags: AMANI Birth, AMANI Birth Changing Lives, AMANI Birth Doula|0 Comments

Stories Of Inspiration And Empowerment: AMANI Birth Changing Lives Series

Read Part I Of The Series Here: Stories Of Inspiration And Empowerment: AMANI Birth Changing Lives Series Part II: Profile: Wahiba Naeem Natural birth experience: I found out I was pregnant with my second, seven months after the birth of my first child. I must admit though, that I was petrified after my first experience. However, I was in a different country this time around. Taking a lesson from my first experience, I started walking since the beginning of my 3rd trimester for an hour to an hour and a half at least 3-4 days a week outside the house. [...]

Sumreen Wasiq2020-05-15T12:39:58+00:00Tags: AMANI Birth, AMANI Birth Changing Lives, AMANI Birth Doula, Autonomous Birth, BirthStories|0 Comments

AMANI Birth Affiliate Spotlight: Luthfa Khalid

AMANI Birth Affiliate Number: 452050 Training Workshop Location: Riyadh Date of Training: Riyadh, March 2016 Why did you choose to become an AMANI Doula/CBE? Having a medical background, I believed I knew everything that I needed to know about pregnancy, labor and birth. When I was planning to conceive, a good friend introduced me to AMANI, and I read their book. I registered for the course thinking what harm would it do to listen to someone talk to us about the same. I wasn't even pregnant when I registered as I was a newly married woman. When I was taking [...]

Sharon Yearwood2020-03-13T03:05:04+00:00Tags: AMANI Birth, AMANI Birth CBE, AMANI Birth Doula, Luthfa Khalid, Women's empowerment|0 Comments

Testimonial Tuesdays

We all agree, birth is a remarkable event in any woman's life. Cradling her baby in her womb for the entire gestation of her pregnancy--meeting her baby in a safe and sound manner--always remains on top of a woman's priorities. As much as our energies pivot at ensuring baby's health and well-being throughout the laboring and birthing process, AMANI Birth's emphasis on guarding and sanctifying the laboring mother's birthing experience and laboring environment is equally stressed upon. After all, healthy and happy mothers make healthy and happy babies! Today, we are thrilled to include a remarkable testimonial of a client [...]

Sumreen Wasiq2023-01-29T09:49:55+00:00Tags: AMANI Birth CBE, AMANI Birth Doula, Childbirth Education, Doulas, Happy Babies, Happy Mothers, Testimonials|0 Comments

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