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Doula

A doula offers continuous presence and emotional care, comfort measures and an understanding of the laboring woman's desires for her birth.

Tea

Tea is a delicious drink usually made of tea leaves often from the Camellia sinensis plant. Black, green and white tea leaves are all from the same plant.

Updo

An updo is a hairstyle generally worn by women for special occasions such as weddings, proms and formal affairs, often with the assistance of pins and clips.

Allegro Non Troppo

Allegro Non Troppo is a musical term describing tempo. In Italian it means fast but not too fast.

Pileated Woodpecker

Dryocopus pileatus, the largest of the North American woodpeckers. They grow to be as large as a small crow at 16 to 19 inches. They have a loud fast call.

Cattywampus

Cattywampus is a slang adjective which means unorganized, disorderly, uneven, out of whack, slightly off, ajar, askew, not going according to plan, or chaotic.

Gravatar

Gravatar, which stands for Globally Recognized Avatars, is an awesome free online service where anyone can create an account and upload an avatar image.

Grasshopper

Grasshoppers are insects, commonly compared to katydids or crickets. Scientifically, grasshoppers are in the order Orthoptera, with a suborder of Caelifera.

Coffee Bean

The bean of the coffee tree. A drink is made of ground coffee beans and hot water. This coffee elixir provides caffeine, a stimulant, into the drinker's system.

Sleep

Sleep is a naturally occurring cycle where sensory input is diminished and the body quiets down. Consciousness is reduced, but dreaming occurs.