Ok, it was AMAZING. Really Trust Birth 2008 was life changing, I remember driving home and pondering all I had learned and thinking, how will I apply this in my life? I was then wondering, should I be a midwife? After a few months of praying, pondering I realized, that isn’t the path I needed […]
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I just spent 30 min writing a wonderful post about how I was tagged and then shared my 3 new blogs with my readers. I posted it and it was BLANK! Seeing as I have playgroup with 7 kids arriving in 10 minutes you now get the very short version. Loving and Supporting Mama’s and
I have always enjoyed setting goals. In college I had a friend who said, “It is the weirdest thing. You write something down, hang it on the wall and then it happens!” That is the beauty of goals. My birth goals for 2009 were: Do a give away on Hypnobabies Blog (I did a few)
I will say that I have been on a journey over the past few years. Because of Bryson’s birth, I became a doula and Chidlbirth Educator. That has changed my health for the better. I have opened my eyes to what health is and how I need to be more in charge of my own
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One of the benefits of having a birth blog is I get the chance to read a lot of birth books! I also have people sending me books to read. I love that. I recently finished reading Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth. It is about birth
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Here is the link to part 1. Extra Fun Birth – I had attended Hannah’s Sister’s Birth a few months before and a lot of the same people were there, so it was like a reunion of sorts. I was so glad that I was able to attend Hannah’s birth! Being in Town – It
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It is interesting that on the same day ACOG (via help from NBC) tries to use fear to motivate moms to birth in hospitals they admit that fear of litigation motivates them to make decisions, rather than evidence based choices. Using Fear to Motivate Moms: NBC Today show and MSNBC showed a segment on Extreme
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Well, this is disconcerting. I wonder how many unneccessary cesareans these machines caused. How many more will they cause if hospitals don’t get these models replaced or fixed? September 7, 2009 — Fetal monitors made by Philips Healthcare, Avalon Models FM20, FM30, FM40, and FM50 and ultrasound transducer, may produce inaccurate readings, the US Food
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I finished reading Your Best Birth: Know All Your Options by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein. I mostly really loved the book. (I will put the only drawback I found at the end.) Through most of the book I was thinking, this is exactly what I would say if I wrote a birth book! I love
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There is nothing more exciting than to recieve a book in the mail, except recieving a BIRTH book in the mail. I got it on Friday and had finished the book by Sunday. The Labor of Love was written by Cara Muhlhahn, was the midwife who is shown in the movie, The Business of Being Born. It
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