Preparing For Birth – Question of the day #1
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View ArticlePreparing For Birth – Affirmations
Guarding what you put into your eyes, ears, and mind is such an important part of pregnancy and birth. As women we learn socially, from one another. When we allow the pervasive negativity (TV, horror...
View ArticleShocking quotes regarding maternal choice to VBAC birth
Joy Szabo has been in the news lately for desiring a second VBAC for her fourth baby (vaginal birth, emergency cesarean, and vaginal birth). She has been denied locally in her area of Page, AZ to have...
View ArticleSome thoughts on birth and being a consumer.
While “teaching” childbirth class the topic of being a consumer is addressed often in a variety of ways. I have a firm belief that a woman has the ability to understand, be well educated, and make her...
View ArticleSisterhood of the Scar Revisited
Many years ago I wrote this piece after attending my very first ICAN conference in San Diego in 2005. I read this and part of me weeps for her, for the me I was and for the women who are becoming part...
View ArticleTechnology and the Prenatal “Diet”
In westernized countries, television and the internet have almost completely replaced the generational teaching and learning found in the “circles” of the past. Women would gather over sewing,...
View ArticleDo It Your Way – Birth That Is
In the past months I have become very aware of the deep notion in our birth culture, and yes even in the natural birth circles, that there are so many do it this way and don’t do it this way put upon...
View ArticleThat Pesky Due Date
Women and babies are not made with a pop out button like some Thanksgiving turkeys indicating being done. That pesky due date becomes such great topic of debate. It can lead to unnecessary...
View ArticleGrace Under Pregnancy: Responding to Negativity
We’ve all seen those blog posts listing all the hilarious, snarky retorts we can have at our disposal when well-intentioned people make comments about our pregnancy, parenting, or birth choices. There...
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