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I’ve been attending births on my own for several years now. Every time I meet with a woman interested in midwifery or home birth, I realize how much I have grown and changed AND also how much I have to learn. I’ll never stop studying, researching, etc., but what these consultations make me realize is […]
The amazing Sarah Buckley is on my mind a lot lately. She’s not the only one to talk about “undisturbed birth”, but she’s certainly one of the most thorough and engaging to speak on the subject. “Undisturbed birth”, “physiological birth”, “birth left alone”; those are just a few formal ways of describing what our bodies […]
I love writing my birth stories. At less than 24 hours post birth I am starting this one, because I don’t want to forget one second of how it all went. I sit here with this precious angel next to me, and I can’t stop reflecting on how he chose to come into this world. […]
If you already have kids of school age, you may get this analogy. There is “school”-as in public, private, brick-and-mortar building; complete with teachers, grades and lesson plans. Then, there is homeschool. Homeschool can be divided up into two subcategories: school at home OR unschooling. Homeschooling can function a lot like “regular” school. Many homeschooling […]
(Let it be known that I have had 5 homebirths-the first, second and third being waterbirths. The last 2 have been intentional “land births”. I have enjoyed all of my births but would probably say that my body has enjoyed birthing on land over in water. I hope my own personal bias does not sway […]
I chose to freebirth my son True, my 6th babe, for a multitude of reasons. See, I found this place in my heart and soul where birth lives. I had seen it in my mind a million times and believed it too; that women are made to birth and that babies know how to be […]
The answer is “YES”. Birth has become a political issue; in more ways than one. The government has taken over our birthing rights to allegedly “protect mothers and babies” and not many are questioning it; the mamas, the midwives, the doulas. Birth is a natural, human right-but it’s gotten to the point that, especially with […]
36 weeks pregnant. I am absolutely raw emotion right now and my thoughts about pregnancy and birth are (to some, not all) probably so radical that I feel I must be out in left field somewhere. If I hadn’t been at the most profound birth conference around last week, I might think my intensity was […]
