Friday, January 23, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Breast milk used in cancer fight
A midwife in Australia has this great blog and here's the best news from her Friday, January 16th entry - Breast is most definately best! Here she shares some Aussie news about a nine year old girl gravely ill with a tumor who's mom tried breastmilk as a treatment option. The child was given 500ml of breast milk each day mixed with fruit in a “smoothie” since October. She is now going back to school! You can read the newspaper article here:
http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2009/jan/13/breast-milk-cancer-fight/
A midwife in Australia has this great blog and here's the best news from her Friday, January 16th entry - Breast is most definately best! Here she shares some Aussie news about a nine year old girl gravely ill with a tumor who's mom tried breastmilk as a treatment option. The child was given 500ml of breast milk each day mixed with fruit in a “smoothie” since October. She is now going back to school! You can read the newspaper article here:
http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2009/jan/13/breast-milk-cancer-fight/
Friday, January 16, 2009
I found this on the Enjoy Birth blog! This is great for those moms who want to see it and haven’t had a chance to go to a screening.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Calendars Sentimental Memories and Birth (of course!)
Does anyone else hang on to old calendars?I love to reminisce as I read and reread the scribbled notes on my 2008 calendar. My old calendar is full of appointments, birthdays, trips, births, due dates, anniversaries, special events, etc. The planning, anticipation of each event involves an emotional investment of myself and as I remember each one the emotions come flooding back. I also like to read other people's calendars. My mom's is so much fuller than mine; she is a super amazing, energetic, ball of fire!
I put all my scribbles on the calendar that is on my refrigerator so that family members coming and going are in the loop. The guest bedroom calendar was blank, beautiful but blank so I had no qualms about tossing it (scriptures and all).
Here at work I starting really reading my calendar from last year and guess what, it has some great stuff! Every month had a Successories motivational quote.
For instance, December's theme was CHANGE. Can you see how that relates to pregnancy, labor and birth? Here is what it said, "Recognize that life is in constant motion and every change happens for a reason".
November's theme was CHOICE. Success is not reached by chance, it is reached by choice. Midwifes, homebirthing families, doulas know well how this relates to birth. If a woman is even somewhat healthy and she wants a natural birth, an unmedicated birth with little to no intervention, or maybe an ecstatic birth she will find out that she has the option to birth at home. Will she be successful in her vision and birth wishes? It's her choice.
I love what October says about VISION, Advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to live the life you have imagined!
September is a really great mantra for pregnancy and labor (and life)! STAY IN THE RACE - Be the one who sets the course, focusing on the right things at the right time. Pregnancy is a good time to "focus on the right things at the right time! Read (focus on) positive birth stories not negative birth stories. During labor focus on your body, the air you breath, your baby, relaxing every fiber of every muscle as well as you can (big time focus!), like the non focused awareness that your Birthing From Within mentor taught you. Focus on the present moment and do not be cerebral, thinking thoughts like, "What is he thinking?", "How dilated am I?", "how much longer will I labor?" These thoughts are not staying in the moment. "I feel the warm sun coming in the window", "I hear my helpers breathing with me", "I hear my own breathing", "I see the light through the crack in the door", "I feel my baby move". Focus without judgment will allow you to 'stay the race' or the 'course' and experience your power like never before.
All this from a calendar! We can really see where our hearts are by our interpretation of our tangible world each day - eh? My heart is with you, my friend, woman-with-child or mommy-to-many.
Lastly I would like to share something that I found a couple of years ago and again recently. It rings true so deeply in my heart. I’m like, "What?" "Somebody else feels what I feel?" "How could they have put my tortured mind at rest so completely in one sentence?" Good day, Rosie
"...be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves... Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
A study was done at UCSF which showed that waiting at least 2 hours if a mom is not dilating during active labor can help prevent about 1/3 of the cesareans done for “failure to progress"
...This link to the Enjoy Birth Blog is one which I suscribe to (RSS Feed) and recommend. There's lots of good information here. If you get a chance also read December 24th blog, Extra babies in December? explaining the high rate of induction and the concequences and why every week of pregnancy is important! Enjoy In Joy, Rosie
Monday, January 05, 2009
Midwives deliver
LA Times Opinion
America needs better birth care, and midwives can deliver it.
By Jennifer Block December 24, 2008
Some healthcare trivia: In the United States, what is the No. 1 reason people are admitted to the hospital? Not diabetes, not heart attack, not stroke. The answer is something that isn't even a disease: childbirth.Not only is childbirth the most common reason for a hospital stay -- more than 4 million American women give birth each year -- it costs the country far more than any other health condition. Six of the 15 most frequent hospital procedures billed to private insurers and Medicaid are maternity-related. The nation's maternity bill totaled $86 billion in 2006, nearly half of which was picked up by taxpayers.
But cost hasn't translated into quality. We spend more than double per capita on childbirth than other industrialized countries, yet our rates of pre-term birth, newborn death and maternal death rank us dismally in comparison. Last month, the March of Dimes gave the country a "D" on its prematurity report card; California got a "C," but 18 other states and the District of Columbia, where 15.9% of babies are born too early, failed entirely.The U.S. ranks 41st among industrialized nations in maternal mortality. And there are unconscionable racial disparities: African American mothers are three times more likely to die in childbirth than white mothers.In short, we are overspending and under-serving women and families. If the United States is serious about health reform, we need to begin, well, at the beginning.
The problem is not access to care; it is the care itself. As a new joint report by the Milbank Memorial Fund, the Reforming States Group and Childbirth Connection makes clear, American maternity wards are not following evidence-based best practices. They are inducing and speeding up far too many labors and reaching too quickly for the scalpel: Nearly one-third of births are now by caesarean section, more than twice what the World Health Organization has documented is a safe rate. In fact, the report found that the most common billable maternity procedures -- continuous electronic fetal monitoring, for instance -- have no clear benefit when used routinely.The most cost-effective, health-promoting maternity care for normal, healthy women is midwife led and out of hospital. Hospitals charge from $7,000 to $16,000, depending on the type and complexity of the birth. The average birth-center fee is only $1,600 because high-tech medical intervention is rarely applied and stays are shorter. This model of care is not just cheaper; decades of medical research show that it's better. Mother and baby are more likely to have a normal, vaginal birth; less likely to experience trauma, such as a bad vaginal tear or a surgical delivery; and more likely to breast feed. In other words, less is actually more.The Obama administration could save the country billions by overhauling the American way of birth.Consider Washington, where a state review of licensed midwives (just 100 in practice) found that they saved the state an estimated $2.7 million over two years. One reason for the savings is that midwives prevent costly caesarean surgeries: 11.9% of midwifery patients in Wash- ington ended up with C-sections, compared with 24% of low-risk women in traditional obstetric care.Currently, just 1% of women nationwide get midwife-led care outside a hospital setting. Imagine the savings if that number jumped to 10% or even 30%. Imagine if hospitals started promoting best practices: giving women one-on-one, continuous support, promoting movement and water immersion for pain relief, and reducing the use of labor stimulants and labor induction. The C-section rate would plummet, as would related infections, hemorrhages, neonatal intensive care admissions and deaths. And the country could save some serious cash. The joint Milbank report conservatively estimates savings of $2.5 billion a year if the caesarean rate were brought down to 15%.To be frank, the U.S. maternity care system needs to be turned upside down. Midwives should be caring for the majority of pregnant women, and physicians should continue to handle high-risk cases, complications and emergencies. This is the division of labor, so to speak, that you find in the countries that spend less but get more.In those countries, a persistent public health concern is a midwife shortage. In the U.S., we don't have similar regard for midwives or their model of care. Hospitals frequently shut down nurse-midwifery practices because they don't bring in enough revenue. And although certified nurse midwives are eligible providers under federal Medicaid law and mandated for reimbursement, certified professional midwives -- who are trained in out-of-hospital birth care -- are not. In several state legislatures, they are fighting simply to be licensed, legal healthcare providers. (Californians are lucky -- certified professional midwives are licensed, and Medi-Cal covers out-of-hospital birth.)Barack Obama could be, among so many other firsts, the first birth-friendly president. How about a Midwife Corps to recruit and train the thousands of new midwives we'll need? How about federal funding to create hundreds of new birth centers? How about an ad campaign to educate women about optimal birth? America needs better birth care, and midwives can deliver it.
Jennifer Block is the author of "Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care."
LA Times Opinion
America needs better birth care, and midwives can deliver it.
By Jennifer Block December 24, 2008
Some healthcare trivia: In the United States, what is the No. 1 reason people are admitted to the hospital? Not diabetes, not heart attack, not stroke. The answer is something that isn't even a disease: childbirth.Not only is childbirth the most common reason for a hospital stay -- more than 4 million American women give birth each year -- it costs the country far more than any other health condition. Six of the 15 most frequent hospital procedures billed to private insurers and Medicaid are maternity-related. The nation's maternity bill totaled $86 billion in 2006, nearly half of which was picked up by taxpayers.
But cost hasn't translated into quality. We spend more than double per capita on childbirth than other industrialized countries, yet our rates of pre-term birth, newborn death and maternal death rank us dismally in comparison. Last month, the March of Dimes gave the country a "D" on its prematurity report card; California got a "C," but 18 other states and the District of Columbia, where 15.9% of babies are born too early, failed entirely.The U.S. ranks 41st among industrialized nations in maternal mortality. And there are unconscionable racial disparities: African American mothers are three times more likely to die in childbirth than white mothers.In short, we are overspending and under-serving women and families. If the United States is serious about health reform, we need to begin, well, at the beginning.
The problem is not access to care; it is the care itself. As a new joint report by the Milbank Memorial Fund, the Reforming States Group and Childbirth Connection makes clear, American maternity wards are not following evidence-based best practices. They are inducing and speeding up far too many labors and reaching too quickly for the scalpel: Nearly one-third of births are now by caesarean section, more than twice what the World Health Organization has documented is a safe rate. In fact, the report found that the most common billable maternity procedures -- continuous electronic fetal monitoring, for instance -- have no clear benefit when used routinely.The most cost-effective, health-promoting maternity care for normal, healthy women is midwife led and out of hospital. Hospitals charge from $7,000 to $16,000, depending on the type and complexity of the birth. The average birth-center fee is only $1,600 because high-tech medical intervention is rarely applied and stays are shorter. This model of care is not just cheaper; decades of medical research show that it's better. Mother and baby are more likely to have a normal, vaginal birth; less likely to experience trauma, such as a bad vaginal tear or a surgical delivery; and more likely to breast feed. In other words, less is actually more.The Obama administration could save the country billions by overhauling the American way of birth.Consider Washington, where a state review of licensed midwives (just 100 in practice) found that they saved the state an estimated $2.7 million over two years. One reason for the savings is that midwives prevent costly caesarean surgeries: 11.9% of midwifery patients in Wash- ington ended up with C-sections, compared with 24% of low-risk women in traditional obstetric care.Currently, just 1% of women nationwide get midwife-led care outside a hospital setting. Imagine the savings if that number jumped to 10% or even 30%. Imagine if hospitals started promoting best practices: giving women one-on-one, continuous support, promoting movement and water immersion for pain relief, and reducing the use of labor stimulants and labor induction. The C-section rate would plummet, as would related infections, hemorrhages, neonatal intensive care admissions and deaths. And the country could save some serious cash. The joint Milbank report conservatively estimates savings of $2.5 billion a year if the caesarean rate were brought down to 15%.To be frank, the U.S. maternity care system needs to be turned upside down. Midwives should be caring for the majority of pregnant women, and physicians should continue to handle high-risk cases, complications and emergencies. This is the division of labor, so to speak, that you find in the countries that spend less but get more.In those countries, a persistent public health concern is a midwife shortage. In the U.S., we don't have similar regard for midwives or their model of care. Hospitals frequently shut down nurse-midwifery practices because they don't bring in enough revenue. And although certified nurse midwives are eligible providers under federal Medicaid law and mandated for reimbursement, certified professional midwives -- who are trained in out-of-hospital birth care -- are not. In several state legislatures, they are fighting simply to be licensed, legal healthcare providers. (Californians are lucky -- certified professional midwives are licensed, and Medi-Cal covers out-of-hospital birth.)Barack Obama could be, among so many other firsts, the first birth-friendly president. How about a Midwife Corps to recruit and train the thousands of new midwives we'll need? How about federal funding to create hundreds of new birth centers? How about an ad campaign to educate women about optimal birth? America needs better birth care, and midwives can deliver it.
Jennifer Block is the author of "Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care."
Saturday, January 03, 2009
A Special Christmas Eve!
Ring-ring-ring! Its 6AM on Christmas Eve and the telephone is my wake up call. I'm glad to hear that my past due date client is in labor! There is no Christmas gift more precious than a new baby! And this newest little one is no exception, she was born at 9:27AM on 12/24 and to top it off, mom had a VB2C (vaginal birth after two cesareans). Mom was amazing and followed her instincts and did as her body dictated. The support team, daddy and me, were just following her lead and believed in her explicitly! Even when she said her labor was progressing fast and she wanted to go to the hospital after one hour of labor! Our plan was to labor at home as long as possible, get in the newly purchased birth pool and do everything to prevent another cesarean. Well, so much for having any preconceived notions about any labor! How many times do I tell folks to be ready for anything...
stay open - ahhh, love that word, OPEN ...
I'm glad we were ready with birth pool and other laboring helps, even when we didn't have time or need to use them. Mom's labor did move fast - how well she knew! Maybe the massage, the primrose oil, helped. It's hard to tell. These non-interventive, non-medical techniques can't hurt and that's the important thing. I think that the waiting & wondering (how will it all go?) was the hardest part of Mom's pregnancy & labor. I think Mom will agree that the waiting was oh so worth it.
This special Christmas Eve birth made my Christmas celebration oh so much more special this year!
Thank you to all the women that have let me into their life this last year to celebrate birth days. To celebrate the miracle of our bodies’ power and our family love, manifested in birth! As your doula I am eternally grateful! Happy New Year! Love, Rosie
Luke 2:10-14 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Ring-ring-ring! Its 6AM on Christmas Eve and the telephone is my wake up call. I'm glad to hear that my past due date client is in labor! There is no Christmas gift more precious than a new baby! And this newest little one is no exception, she was born at 9:27AM on 12/24 and to top it off, mom had a VB2C (vaginal birth after two cesareans). Mom was amazing and followed her instincts and did as her body dictated. The support team, daddy and me, were just following her lead and believed in her explicitly! Even when she said her labor was progressing fast and she wanted to go to the hospital after one hour of labor! Our plan was to labor at home as long as possible, get in the newly purchased birth pool and do everything to prevent another cesarean. Well, so much for having any preconceived notions about any labor! How many times do I tell folks to be ready for anything...
stay open - ahhh, love that word, OPEN ...
I'm glad we were ready with birth pool and other laboring helps, even when we didn't have time or need to use them. Mom's labor did move fast - how well she knew! Maybe the massage, the primrose oil, helped. It's hard to tell. These non-interventive, non-medical techniques can't hurt and that's the important thing. I think that the waiting & wondering (how will it all go?) was the hardest part of Mom's pregnancy & labor. I think Mom will agree that the waiting was oh so worth it.
This special Christmas Eve birth made my Christmas celebration oh so much more special this year!
Thank you to all the women that have let me into their life this last year to celebrate birth days. To celebrate the miracle of our bodies’ power and our family love, manifested in birth! As your doula I am eternally grateful! Happy New Year! Love, Rosie
Luke 2:10-14 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Birth Quotes
You are constructing your own reality with the choices you make...or don't make. If you really want a healthy pregnancy and joyful birth, and you truly understand that you are the one in control, then you must examine what you have or haven't done so far to create the outcome you want.
You are constructing your own reality with the choices you make...or don't make. If you really want a healthy pregnancy and joyful birth, and you truly understand that you are the one in control, then you must examine what you have or haven't done so far to create the outcome you want.
Kim Wildner-Author of Mother's Intention: How Belief Shapes Birth
If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
Irma Bombeck
If we are to heal the planet, we must begin by healing birthing.
Agnes Sallet Von Tannenberg
People never sing...except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about the power of water. People are drawn to water, spas, and sacred streams. Women in labor are drawn to water, too.
Michel Odent, MD
We are made to do this work and its not easy...I would say that pain is part of the glory, or the tremendous mystery of life. And that if anything, it's a kind of privilege to stand so close to such an incredible miracle.
Simone in Klasson 2001
Well behaved women rarely make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile…initially scared me to death.
Betty Bender
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.
Maya Angelou
If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it.
John H. Kennell, MD
I think one of the best things we could do would be to help women/parents/families discover their own birth power, from within themselves. And to let them know it's always been there, they just needed to tap into it.
John H. Kennell, MD
I think one of the best things we could do would be to help women/parents/families discover their own birth power, from within themselves. And to let them know it's always been there, they just needed to tap into it.
John H. Kennell, MD
What's done to children, they will do to society.
Karl Menninger
We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong. Laura Stavoe Harm
The whole point of woman-centered birth is the knowledge that a woman is the birth power source. She may need, and deserve, help, but in essence, she always had, currently has, and will have the power.
We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong. Laura Stavoe Harm
The whole point of woman-centered birth is the knowledge that a woman is the birth power source. She may need, and deserve, help, but in essence, she always had, currently has, and will have the power.
Heather McCue
Just as a woman's heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth.
Virginia Di Orio
Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of our greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.
Mother Teresa
Mothers need to know that their care and their choices won't be compromised by birth politics.
Jennifer Rosenberg
Only with trust, faith, and support can the woman allow the birth experience to enlighten and empower her. Women's strongest feelings [in terms of their birthings], positive and negative, focus on the way they were treated by their caregivers.
Annie Kennedy & Penny Simkin
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.
Stephen Gaskin
300,000 women will be giving birth with you today. Relax and breathe and do nothing else. Labor is hard work, it hurts and you can do it.
Unknown
If in doubt, breathe out
If in doubt, breathe out
Cathy Doberska - Reading, UK NCT teacher
There is power that comes to women when they give birth. They don't ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it.
Sheryl Feldman
Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So also, pain is only pain; unless we resist it, then it becomes torment.
I Ching
I Ching
There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.
Penelope Leach
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
Penelope Leach
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
Judith M. Knowlton
If I don't know my options, I don't have any.
Diana Korte
Diana Korte
We've all been waiting for you.
For you.
Your arrival has been marked, has been recorded on earth,
in the universe, in the galaxies, in all of space,
in all of time.
You come with a birthright,
written in love and sung through all Creation
in words which promise that no matter
where you're at, you're home
that no matter who you're with,
you're welcome that no matter who you are, you're loved.
Welcome.
Rita Ramsey
Monday, December 08, 2008
Doula Client Birth Story Published!
Thanks for writing Steven! It's nice to read a fathers birth story :)
I can only add that you were a wonderful in the moment coach! It sure helped that Kellee was calm, strong and totally in the zone throughout her labor and her sweet quick birth. The most natural, almost homebirth like hospital birth I've ever attended in 200+ ...I love that Mom stayed in her own lacy pink shirt. It can be those little type things that make for such nice intimate births. Have a fun Christmas with Levi! Love, Rosie
See Levi's Delivery, the featured birth story! at http://community.thenestbaby.com/cs/ks/blogs/birth_stories/archive/2008/12/03/kelleeis007-levi-s-birth-story.aspx
Thanks for writing Steven! It's nice to read a fathers birth story :)
I can only add that you were a wonderful in the moment coach! It sure helped that Kellee was calm, strong and totally in the zone throughout her labor and her sweet quick birth. The most natural, almost homebirth like hospital birth I've ever attended in 200+ ...I love that Mom stayed in her own lacy pink shirt. It can be those little type things that make for such nice intimate births. Have a fun Christmas with Levi! Love, Rosie
See Levi's Delivery, the featured birth story! at http://community.thenestbaby.com/cs/ks/blogs/birth_stories/archive/2008/12/03/kelleeis007-levi-s-birth-story.aspx
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
CHANGING THE WORLD ONE BIRTH AT A TIME!
Look at the structure of your birth community and make plans for spreading the word within it. Put flyers in the library and birth bookmarks in library books. Canvas your community with ideas and work with others. Pick up the awe and miracle of instinctive birth. Let others feel this through your heart and see it through your eyes. Revel in the glory of a baby flowing in health and happiness out of the mother’s body and into her waiting arms. Bask in a new life coming to the planet in love and in a woman’s own time, held joyfully, without disturbance, chatter or other more severe intervention. Let others see and feel the miracle—the deep spirituality—through your soul. -JAN TRITTEN
- Doula for first, not for second baby: I was doula for a lovely women a couple of years ago. After a unmedicated 30+ hour labor she had her baby by cesarean section. It was tramatic for her. After healing and prayings she became pregnant again and last week had a HBAC (home birth after cesarean) with a midwife present. This baby was bigger than last baby and was born into the warm birth pool after only eight hours of labor. Ahhhhhh. I was not present. Birth is private, sacred and needs to be respected. Mom walked a new path with new hope and realized her dream.
- Doula for fourth and fifth baby: Thanksgiving weekend I attended the birth of Michael. I'd been with his mom when his big brother was born 4 years ago. 4 years ago moms labor was so short I almost caught the baby! Thank God she lived 2 minutes from the hospital. Mom realized during the last birth how much she liked being immersed in water so this time we would be driving farther to see midwifes and labor in water. Early morning PROM, premature rupture of membranes (slow amniotic leak with no contractions) had us spending the day/night/morning doing lots of walking and talking but no active labor. Birth Center sent us down to regular Labor and Delivery for pitocin augmentation/induction after 24 hours. Six hours later baby was born. The L&D nurse said this was the first unmedicated birth she's seen in a long long time. The midwifes were great but "it's a hospital birth center" after all so mom did not get to labor in water as she'd wished. I was told they couldn't even recommend nipple stimulation since that would require mom to be continually monitored! Mom's could do it of course, but the nurses could not prescribe it. We found out that a few years ago docs would wait 48 hours after waters released before induction, then the rules changed to 36 hours and now they only wait 24 hours! No homeopathic remedies allowed (with knowledge) and not too many "patients" opt to go home. Some do.
I'm reminded that each one is different each one is special and each time we helpers need to stay alert to what type of work is being done by mom. Did she do pregnancy preparation (emotional, physical, spiritual, etc.), what's her pregnancy history, who was the pre-pregnant woman, relationships, her own birth, her moms & sisters births, birth preparation, choices...women have a choice to go into the "baby bubble" before birth and prepare themselves and their baby. Even when the world seems to be falling down around your feet. I know. I did. but that's another story. You have a thousand other choices daily. Listen to your inner voice.
Y Precious new baby Michael Y
Look at the structure of your birth community and make plans for spreading the word within it. Put flyers in the library and birth bookmarks in library books. Canvas your community with ideas and work with others. Pick up the awe and miracle of instinctive birth. Let others feel this through your heart and see it through your eyes. Revel in the glory of a baby flowing in health and happiness out of the mother’s body and into her waiting arms. Bask in a new life coming to the planet in love and in a woman’s own time, held joyfully, without disturbance, chatter or other more severe intervention. Let others see and feel the miracle—the deep spirituality—through your soul. -JAN TRITTEN
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