{"id":18,"date":"2007-03-07T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T19:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2007-03-07T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T19:36:29","slug":"dungeonbirthing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Dungeonbirthing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there are a <em>lot<\/em> of various birthing techniques designed to help women through labor.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hypnobirthing\">Hypnobirthing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mothering.com\/articles\/pregnancy_birth\/birth_preparation\/ecstatic.html\">ecstatic birthing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinningbabies.com\/index.php\">spinning babies<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going for Dungeonbirthing.  Dungeonbirthing, a system which I believe I&#8217;ve newly invented, involves having the labor support partner (that would be Sam) run a Dungeons and Dragons game during labor and birth.  I&#8217;ll roll the dice between contractions.  Gaming is one of my favorite things, which will promote relaxation and the release of happy chemicals in my brain (elements borrowed from ecstatic birthing), plus it involves a retreat into an escapist fantasy world (elements borrowed from hypnobirthing).  Also, I will find it tremendously amusing to spread out the battle mat on the bedside table, and move the little figurines around, and roll saving throws, all while the doctors are coming and going and peering into my cucciniddu.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who wants to be present at the birth must be willing to play a cleric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there are a lot of various birthing techniques designed to help women through labor. Hypnobirthing, ecstatic birthing, spinning babies, etc. I&#8217;m going for Dungeonbirthing. Dungeonbirthing, a system which I believe I&#8217;ve newly invented, involves having the labor support partner (that would be Sam) run a Dungeons and Dragons game during labor and birth. I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}