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2/26/13
2/11/11
Insurance reimbursement
VT insurance companies that currently cover postpartum care under the Better Beginnings Program are Catamount and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. The more requests that insurance companies receive to cover birth services, the more likely they are to cover them. Some families have found that they are able to pay for doula services with their HSA.
If you are a client of an insurance company that offers the Better Beginnings program, you need to register by your 34th week.
From 'The Doula Guide to Birth' By Ananda Lowe and Rachel Zimmerman. Pg. 101
Insurance Companies that have reimbursed clients for doula care in the past include:
*Aetna
*Baylor Health Care System
*Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
*Cigna
*Elmcare
*Fortis
*Great-West Life & Annuity
*Humana
*Maritime Life
*Oschner HMO
*Oxford
*Prudential
*Travelers
*United Healthcare
We have a set of documents that will support your reimbursement request. Please email us to request these documents.
If you are a client of an insurance company that offers the Better Beginnings program, you need to register by your 34th week.
From 'The Doula Guide to Birth' By Ananda Lowe and Rachel Zimmerman. Pg. 101
Insurance Companies that have reimbursed clients for doula care in the past include:
*Aetna
*Baylor Health Care System
*Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
*Cigna
*Elmcare
*Fortis
*Great-West Life & Annuity
*Humana
*Maritime Life
*Oschner HMO
*Oxford
*Prudential
*Travelers
*United Healthcare
We have a set of documents that will support your reimbursement request. Please email us to request these documents.
Documents Available Upon Request
We have created a volume of documents for your convenience.
Please let us know if you have a particular interest and we can email them to you.
"I Love U" Massage
Baby Wearing
Belly Dance For Birth
Bottle Feeding
Breast feeding
Car Seats
Caring For Babies Bodies
Circumcision
Co-Sleeping
Community Activities
Fevers
Healing After Baby
Home-Made Baby Food
Insurance Reimbursement Support Documents
Introducing Foods
Is Baby Eating Enough?
Natural Induction
Newborn Constipation
Newborn Sleep
Postpartum Depression
Postpartum Resources
Sample Birth wishes
SIDS Prevention
The Benefits of Touch
The Diaper Debate
Tips For Birth Partners
Umbilical Care
Please let us know if you have a particular interest and we can email them to you.
"I Love U" Massage
Baby Wearing
Belly Dance For Birth
Bottle Feeding
Breast feeding
Car Seats
Caring For Babies Bodies
Circumcision
Co-Sleeping
Community Activities
Fevers
Healing After Baby
Home-Made Baby Food
Insurance Reimbursement Support Documents
Introducing Foods
Is Baby Eating Enough?
Natural Induction
Newborn Constipation
Newborn Sleep
Postpartum Depression
Postpartum Resources
Sample Birth wishes
SIDS Prevention
The Benefits of Touch
The Diaper Debate
Tips For Birth Partners
Umbilical Care
11/3/10
Activities to do with your baby
Birth Journeys playgroup
Birth Journeys is happy to provide a space for new parents to connect and support each other during this new adventure. The 1st and 3rd Friday of every month 9:30 - 11:30 am. A $3 contribution is requested to help support the space and refreshments.
VNA Family Room
The VNA Family Room is located in St. Joseph's School on Allen Street in Burlington. vnacares.org. 802-860-4420
Fathers & Children Together
Fathers & children birth to age 6 come together for activities, outings and free dinner.
Family Play
Community drop in for families and children birth to age 6. VNA staff is available for support or questions. Free lunch. Infant message. Tuesdays & Thursdays 9-1pm.
Early Months
Moms & new babes get together for support and to learn comfort techniques. Mondays 11-1pm. Thursdays 2:15-3:30 pm.
Evolution Yoga
Yoga Young Yogi program, $110 for 11 week session
Kids classes range from ages 2 months-middle school. Whether you are looking for a way to bond with your baby, tap into your toddler's imagination, or give your child tools to focus and find confidence, our children's series offer a consistent way to bring yoga into your family's life.
EvoMamas, Every 2nd and 4th Thursday, 2-4 pm - free
EvoMamas is an open gathering run by mothers for mothers. EvoMamas fosters community, support, and friendship in the transition period between pregnancy and motherhood. Whether you're expecting, are a new mom, or you've just had another baby, you're invited to come hang out, discuss, and unwind. Feel free to bring snacks, toys or your yoga mat for a little stretching!
Post-Natal Yoga, Sun 12:15-1:30 pm, Thurs 10:25-11:40 The transition into motherhood can feel challenging both emotionally and physically as the mother's body begins to realign after so many months growing a baby. Post-Natal Yoga focuses on bringing the body back to strength and alignment in a fun and nurturing environment with other mothers. We begin the class with a chance to talk about common themes such as sleep (or lack there-of), feeding baby, how to wear your baby, etc., and then move into a moderately- paced yoga class which focuses on relieving shoulder and back pain, strengthening deep abdominal and pelvic muscles, and building stamina. Feel free to bring your baby with you, as well as a baby blanket to rest the baby on. The class is appropriate for women with babies 6 weeks to crawling.
Mama Yoga, Wednesdays, 9:45-10:45 am. (Please note, this is a drop-in class; no pre-registration is necessary. You may use your 10 class card for this class.) At evolution, we recognize that a mom's busy life often doesn't allow for yoga; so bring your toddler along to this anusara-ispired yoga class! Carolyn Conner, mother of a toddler herself, will lead you through a moderately-paced yoga class while your child plays in the studio (and probably climbs all over you!). This class will be creative, full of laughs and undoubtedly full of surprises. Calling all moms with kids from crawling to age 3 - come explore your practice with us!
And please check your local library for children’s programming such as story times or sing alongs.
6/9/10
Placental Options
What are you doing, or have you done with your placenta? What stories have you heard? We've all heard something but most of us wonder what we might have done if we had the opportunity to go back and make a different choice after having some time to think about it. Most of us, before delivering our first placenta don't contemplate what we might do with it after it's expelled from our bodies.
I know I've wondered after having my wisdom teeth pulled why I didn't ask for them, and what do they do with them anyway? Are they hazardous medical waste? It sounds silly to say it out loud, but when I trim my kids hair, I put it in the compost in the hopes that as it nourishes our garden in the following years that it will some how ground them to our home.
I didn't think to ask for my placentas and we didn't own any property when I delivered them so I don't know what I might have done, but now, in my semi-wisened years I would like to think I would have encapsulated and ingested it. A friend of mine buried hers under an apple tree and now that her son is grown and lives out of state, she mails him a couple of apples every year for his birthday. Why wasn't I so thoughtful?
Why? Because we are sadly disconnected from birth and all of it's processes prior to giving birth ourselves in our culture. However, we are fortunate to live in a place where you can find options if you are aware to look for them. We at Birth Journeys can do placenta prints for you, creating a unique piece of art that curiously looks like a tree (I'd like to think I would have done this too), something like the baby's foot prints. We can also refer you to a local woman who dehydrates and encapsulates placentas for women to ingest in the postpartum period. There are many studies showing the health benefits of this practice.
Visit this blog to read about some cultural practices around the world. Here are some other sites with great information;
http://birthingtreeoflife-rebecca.blogspot.com/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-07-18-placenta-ingestion_N.htm
Whatever you decide to do with your placenta, you should consider at least having a look and saying a quiet little thank you for the hard and magical work it did. They're really quite beautiful.
I know I've wondered after having my wisdom teeth pulled why I didn't ask for them, and what do they do with them anyway? Are they hazardous medical waste? It sounds silly to say it out loud, but when I trim my kids hair, I put it in the compost in the hopes that as it nourishes our garden in the following years that it will some how ground them to our home.
I didn't think to ask for my placentas and we didn't own any property when I delivered them so I don't know what I might have done, but now, in my semi-wisened years I would like to think I would have encapsulated and ingested it. A friend of mine buried hers under an apple tree and now that her son is grown and lives out of state, she mails him a couple of apples every year for his birthday. Why wasn't I so thoughtful?Why? Because we are sadly disconnected from birth and all of it's processes prior to giving birth ourselves in our culture. However, we are fortunate to live in a place where you can find options if you are aware to look for them. We at Birth Journeys can do placenta prints for you, creating a unique piece of art that curiously looks like a tree (I'd like to think I would have done this too), something like the baby's foot prints. We can also refer you to a local woman who dehydrates and encapsulates placentas for women to ingest in the postpartum period. There are many studies showing the health benefits of this practice.
Visit this blog to read about some cultural practices around the world. Here are some other sites with great information;
http://birthingtreeoflife-rebecca.blogspot.com/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-07-18-placenta-ingestion_N.htm
Whatever you decide to do with your placenta, you should consider at least having a look and saying a quiet little thank you for the hard and magical work it did. They're really quite beautiful.
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