Last year was an amazing year for me. I did a lot of growing and letting go too. I started 2011 with 52 goals. I achieved most of them, I usually do achieve my goals. But I was very frantic about it. It wasn’t done with intention and love, rather with urgency and hyper-focus, with […]
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My Aunt Kathi told me last year how their exchange student had a family tradition of being completely media free for December in honor of Christmas. I loved that idea, but the boys and DH boycotted it. It wasn’t worth the fight for me at the time, we were just getting used to being media
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I enjoyed reading this post by Nurtured Moms about activism in the Birthing Room. It made me think back to a few months ago when I was SO nervous about my VBA2C’s mom upcoming birth. Was I going to have to be an Activist? Or could I just support Mom? I didn’t know what role
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“I hired a Midwife – so I know she will be supportive, wonderful, help me have an ideal birth.” Take your head out of the sand! It isn’t that easy. Just because you hired a Midwife does not mean that she will support what you want. Choose your care provider carefully. Choosing your care provider
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My friend Brittany wrote a post I loved. Stop the Whirl:I want to get Off! I already talked about it in reference to birth in another post. This time I am going to post about how birth is like stopping the world for me. But it doesn’t take a carnival ride to bring this memory
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I love Christmas music and am always on the lookout for a GOOD new Christmas CD. I can’t tell you how many times I buy one and am disappointed. Last year I discovered a good one. It’s All About the Baby My Favorite Christmas Music Find of 2011! This year I am happy to say I
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Not My Type: A Single Girl’s Guide to Doing It All Wrong by Melanie Jacobson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I really enjoyed reading The List by Melanie, so I was excited when her new book, Not My Type, came out. I think I liked it even more than The List! I loved how
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My friend Brittany wrote this great post about a vomit filled ride at a carnival. It sounds gross, but the story is great. I loved it so much I am actually going to blog about it twice, so go ahead and read it. You know the Tilt A Whirl Rides? Have you ever wanted
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I had been experiencing prodromal labor for 3-4weeks which was just taunting me because my OB had told me I wasn’t allowed to go past 40 weeks if I wanted an intervention free VBA2C. I had done everything possible to naturally speed things along to no avail…spicy foods, intimacy with dh, sitting/swaying on the birth ball
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I am super busy crazy with TOO much stuff. Here is a list of what I have on my plate until the middle of November. I have recently finished some things. Said No to somethings too. Business ongoing Hypnobabies Blog ongoing Hypnobabies Yahoo Group ongoing Enjoy Birth Blog ongoing Teach Hypnobabies Weekly DONE Gift of
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Sometimes moms need to have a cesarean. I want all moms to have a positive birth and I believe cesareans can be positive too. I am so excited to share with you one of my excerpts from The Gift of Giving Life. I wanted to be sure that Moms who read that book, knew how
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You know you have a good friend when they send you links like this. Oh, baby! Artist due to give birth at a New York Gallery. With the comment, “sounds like your kind of Art Gallery” I would like an art exhibit like that. I actually love to watch a mother birth. It is a
Birth IS Art, I just never thought of it that way before Read More »
I am so sorry if you do! I suffered from PUPPS with my last pregnancy and it was so horrible. I have never forgotten it. I have always wanted to create something to help other moms suffering from PUPPS and I finally have! I created this Toolkit to help moms suffering from PUPPS, to help
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I absolutely loved reading this birth story about a mom who had 2 very different birth experiences. Her friend called her a “birth outlier” I also cannot have imagined 2 entirely different labors, as the first was a 42-hour ordeal ending in a c-section, and this one was about 42 minutes of intensity before the
Baby Versus Turd – great VBAC story! Read More »
I have enjoyed being part of such a wonderful group of women as we pooled our efforts to create an inspirational book about spirituality and birth. We are all doing this in our spare time as we birth, mother and raise our families. Here is a glimpse of what it is about. The Gift of
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