Navigating Learning Curve of the Birth Year and Beyond

Navigating Learning Curve of the Birth Year and Beyond

by Laura Saba of www.momdoulary.com

Today’s parents face challenges unlike any generation before.

They’re greeted by an avalanche of conflicting information.  There’s much to learn about your body, transitioning friendships and relationship, not to mention education on parenting and care methods, gadgets, and more.

Experts and businesses vie for one’s attention and dollars, and it is difficult to know which advice to trust.  This has given rise to the “Birth” and “Mommy” Wars – a natural response to conflicting information in a climate where one must keep up with the Joneses while always seeking that “one right answer” they learned through years of schooling must magically exist.  The result?  Serious stress!

Parents bump into a lot of dogma in terms of birth options, be it allopathic (“The epidural is the answer!”) or Natural Childbirth (“All doctors, hospitals, and especially that epidural, are evil!”).   Most know there must be more to it, yet when experts weigh in on both sides with equally compelling information, neither quite resounds with most parents.   Parenting choices are similarly complex.

So, they turn to friends and family for advice, only to find more turmoil and disagreement there!

Reality hits: Every choice they are about to make carries political and personal statements.  The pressure is on.  No matter which path they choose, which options they embrace, they will be judged by others.

The only sane recourse is to choose what ‘‘best fits” one’s family and needs, regardless of what anyone else thinks.  How though, to best determine that?

It isn’t easy.  Plus it feels important to get this right, a baby is depending on you.

They key is to remember to stay true to yourself. What’s right for another family may not be right for you.  There’s no cookie-cutter solution.  Just like there is no ‘perfect’ labor.  We all arrive at our journey from a different starting point, and from different circumstances.   It should be a red flag when someone insists their way is the only way.  The only best way is that which best serves your family.

Many are turning to birth support personnel to guide them while providing hands-on comfort and support during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period.

You must be selective when choosing a support person.  The key is to retain someone who won’t foist their agenda on you, but rather support you in finding your own custom solutions and path.   For this reason many go with a Momdoulary Certified Professional.  These individuals are educated as birth, postpartum, and antepartum doulas, as well as in areas of childbirth education, parent preparation coaching, and family lifestyle organizing – all from a space that is free of judgment.  They will never tell you what you should choose, but rather help you understand and assess the options,then support you on implementation.  Again, having support in your corner, designed to support you in assessing your needs from an objective place, is a gift most parents need.

MBA Programs give structured support

By katemjanssen

Business School: If you make mistakes during your MBA education the cost is much lower than making startup mistakes in the real world.

– MBA Programs give structured support

Increasingly more of the best MBA programs have a strong focus on entrepreneurship. Of course, the academic portion of MBA programs must not be underrated, but most people agree that the structured mentorship and the chance to access the great resources these programs provide, are of invaluable worth. Successful investors and entrepreneurs and investors are drawn in to support students who would normally not be in a position to contact these business professionals. The startup world is extremely open to mentorship, but it would take many years to build up the same quality network that an entrepreneurship center, such as an MBA environment, is providing.

So forget about the popular idea that an MBA has not the same value anymore, and just look at the facts. The choice of going after an MBA is entirely personal. The best first action would be to talk to several people with opposing views, analyze the alternative possibilities and give some good thought to your long term objectives.

The Van Dorn Demag

Van Dorn Dema By Starplayer

The Van Dorn Demag [http://elitemachinerysystems.com/van_dorn_injection_molding_machines.php] company is a plastic injection molding machine manufacturing giant that is known all across the globe for the innovative and high quality plastic machinery that they produce, and for one of the best after-market support staffs in the industry. It took a long time for Van Dorn to reach this esteemed position, but they didn’t start out quite as successfully.

In fact, the Van Dorn company started out almost 150 years ago as a small foundry making decorative wrought iron fences in the Akron, OH area. The company started to gain notoriety, and moved their operations to E. 79th street in Cleveland, and renamed themselves the Cleveland Wrought Iron Fence Company. As their sales continued to increase, they renamed the company yet again, this time to the Van Dorn Ironworks company, and they quickly became the leading manufacturer of jail sales in the region.

Throughout the turn of the century, the company saw continued successes manufacturing car parts for local manufacturers during the rise of the increasingly popular and successful automobile industry. They also produced armored plating for cars and tanks used during the first and second world wars. The company barely made it out of the Great Depression, surviving on their government contracts supplying armored plating for the military. After the depression, the company knew that it had to diversify its product range if it wanted to stay in business, as iron was quickly becoming a dated commodity, being replaced by more modern materials in construction and building applications as technology was advancing.

So the company bought up two smaller businesses, one being a company that produced aluminum cans for food industry, and the other being a small company that made plastic injection molding machines for the newly emerging and fledgling plastics market. They found their niche in plastic machinery manufacturing, and over the next few decades saw unprecedented growth and success as one of the industries’ top manufacturers of plastic machinery, and the rest is history.

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