Home from the Trust Birth Conference

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!