At night, they sleep in star fields, by day they run with wildflowers. A gift from my sister. If you are remembering anyone today, I’d love to know about it, to hear your story. You can leave a link or just share in the comments. As you can see, I am 10 and 5 [...]
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A gift
Posted in anniversaries and dates, Birth, blood, fighting and winning, friendship, Goodness, happiness is, hope, listening, loss, loyalty, me, miscarriage, missing pieces, my sister Jen gets blogged about, questions for the universe, thoughts, tagged gifts, Glow in the woods, grieving, Love, miscarriage, pregnancy and infant loss rememberance, Share on 10/15/2010 | 5 Comments »
Trauma
Posted in Birth, birth advocacy, doula on 03/30/2010 | 3 Comments »
(As always birth stories are told with time mysterious delays and details changed). The birth looked lovely. We were in a mother friendly hospital with very nurturing midwives. The mother labored well. Her husband held her hand. Her sister pulled her hair off her neck and teared up. I was busy with cool cloths, juice [...]
reporting in on Henci Goer & the Illusion of choice in Childbirth
Posted in Birth, birth advocacy, chidlbirth education, doula on 06/26/2009 | 10 Comments »
If you have heard of Henci Goer, it is probably because you have reading A Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth. Her other major work is Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities, which is quite dense book, not exactly light fare pregnancy reading. I read this work as part of my childbirth educator certification. What [...]
Birth Choices and The NICU
Posted in Birth, birth advocacy, childbirth education, doula on 06/01/2009 | 8 Comments »
The baby was just 34 weeks. Her water had been broken for several days. He was a hearty little soul, quite fiesty – but tiny at just over 4lbs. To the NICU he went to be watched and cared for. Yesterday mom was discharged, and baby stayed, because we have no rooming in at the [...]
Birth Choices and The NICU
Posted in Birth, birth advocacy, childbirth education, doula on 06/01/2009 | 8 Comments »
The baby was just 34 weeks. Her water had been broken for several days. He was a hearty little soul, quite fiesty – but tiny at just over 4lbs. To the NICU he went to be watched and cared for. Yesterday mom was discharged, and baby stayed, because we have no rooming in at the [...]
Birth: I can help
Posted in Birth, money, work on 10/05/2008 | 6 Comments »
I need to work more. I’m thinking so much about birth, where I can work, what services I can offer, how to help more women, and earn more money that my mind resembles this wordle. Click on it to see it bigger.
Other People Exist
Posted in Birth, birth advocacy, childbirth, doula on 08/22/2008 | 28 Comments »
The more births I go to, the more I realize that other people exist. They really do exist, just as they are, and what’s more they are very often other. Which is to say, I find them not at all like me. This is most interesting when I am at a birth in the role [...]
10 notes on homebirth
Posted in Birth, humor on 07/23/2008 | 8 Comments »
1. Lots of people like to make birth art jewelry, but rarely does any of it feature meconium. 2. I am not that into birth art jewelry. I am not that into meconium. Neither one really bother me. I’m just saying. 3. The first few hours of a home birth you will ask every one’s [...]
Battle Wounds from Birth
Posted in Birth, birth advocacy on 07/22/2008 | 28 Comments »
This was not the blog post I was writing in my head about my home birth clients. I know I have been extraordinarily lucky to be witness to and participant in so many wonderful, supported births. They have each looked different, but I have felt the mother supported in her choices, in her laboring, in [...]
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Posted in Adirondacks, Birth, comments, hiking, lawn care not, thankful, vacation, waterfalls on 07/15/2008 | 10 Comments »
We had complaint from landlord as to the length of the grass. There is always something when you go away that waits to greet you & kick your ass. That little drama has delayed a few more important agenda items for me such as: 1. Showing you what it is like to hike with a [...]
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