It was amazing and wonderful and fun! I probably have 10 blog entries worth of things to talk about. So this will just be an overview.
I got to room with Michelle and Celesta, midwives from San Diego. They were so great! I am so looking forward to Alison’s birth, Michelle is her midwife and I am her doula! It will be so amazing to work together and support Alison in creating the birth she wants. Thanks Alison and Sharla for not having your babies this weekend! 🙂
I loved every single session I went to. I loved every person I met. I wish I had more time to talk to many of the women, but there were just so many lovely people to connect with and not enough time!
I am a big believer in goals. Over a year ago I wrote a goal to meet Michel Odent. I had no idea how that would ever happen, but I wrote it down and I did meet him at the conference and hear him speak and it was wonderful.
I must say I didn’t know who Sarah Buckley was when I saw her name (though I did once I saw her book), but I LOVED all of her sessions and I learned so many great things I can share with my Hypnobabies students!
I met so many great women from the Birth Blogging World. In no particular order…
Hathor the Cow Goddess, who inspired me to rewrite my birth stories, edit them a bit.
Christy a fellow ICANer and KMOM another ICANer, who doesn’t have a blog, but has a great website, we had fun hanging out at the ICAN table together!
Laureen another ICANer who spoke about the power of Web 2.0 in making changes in the birthing world. It made me SO excited to post some videos I have waiting in the wings… they should be up in the next week or so.
I didn’t get a chance to meet Pamela, but she was there and I love her blog!
Laura Shanley, gave a great talk on how the power of our beliefs shape our birth. That was right up my alley!
I also met Rixa, I really loved what she had to say about intuition and then the last talk she gave about different paradigms of birth, I have so much to say about all of those things! I am going to buy the MP3 of her other talks. I love how smart she is! 🙂
I wish I had found more time to sit and chat with Rixa and “Hathor”. If they lived closer they could come to park day with me and my friends and then the three of us could be the weird mother earth ones who sit together and talk about birth and nursing. I am sure my park day friends would appreciate the break from my enthusiasm. 😉
Overall I would say that I love and understand birth even more than I did. I trust birth more and hope I can better support my students and clients in their paths to create the best births for themselves!
Sounds like some awesome energy at the TrustBirth Conference! I look forward to listening to the talks when the recordings are available.
While you were sitting in on the great workshops, I was being interviewed on a blogtalk radio station – one hour conversation about unassisted homebirth and I was asked to appear as a guest in the future.
To listen to the program, go to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/usmilemom.
Thank you,
Lynn M. Griesemer
Author of Unassisted Homebirth: An ACT OF LOVE and
YOUR BODY, YOUR BIRTH: SECRETS FOR A SATISFYING AND SUCCESSFUL BIRTH
http://www.unassistedhomebirth.com
P.S. Plans are underway for the 3rd National Husband / Wife Homebirth Conference which will be held in Liberty, MO on July 4, 2009.
I would love to be added to your links. I am a practicing midwife and AAMI student and was in attendance at the conference. Loved your comments and agree that it was one-of-a-kind conference!
sounds wonderful! i’m completely jealous:) look forward to hearing more about it, and can’t wait to hear about that birth you have coming up!
Hey, I’ll be a weird mother earth mama with you at the park anytime! 🙂 I hope they do another conference like that someday, and that I can actually go. Can’t wait to read the rest of your blog entries about the conference!
-Alison
Thanks for the great post…after reading all about the conference I am starting to feel somewhere between way more and way less depressed that I wasn’t there!
Love your blog:)
I too really loved the conference and came out of there even more inspired, confident, and trusting in birth. I was also so looking forward to meeting Michel Odent – what a treat!!! All the classes were fabulous and I had too much fun and met so many amazing people. I agree, Sarah Buckley was fabulous. I am REALLY looking forward to the next gathering, although it will be difficult to top this one!
Peace,
~Christy