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The Gravity of the Situation: Architecture, our Body, and Spinning Babies
So I’ve already attended the spinning babies workshop, and I’m still excited that Gail Tully is headed to San Diego for a second round. Why? Because I have so much more to learn. Spinning Babies as a website (spinningbabies.com) is … Continue reading
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Imprint: The Birth of Generations
I was going to get back to Imprint, but I thought I’d start with a story that occurred a few years after Imprint was created. My middle daughter, Amayi, when she was about 4 years old was looking at her … Continue reading
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Mary Birch Hospital for Women: Feigning Powerlessness
On December 18th, 2011, over 50 men and women showed up for a rally for change in front of Mary Birch Hospital for Women. Mary Birch has one of the highest cesarean birth rates for first time mothers in the … Continue reading
Midwife History: Articles from the 70s and 80s
I’m looking through articles from 1977 about home birth’s resurgence. So much mirrors that time now as “doula” becomes a common household word and homebirth has increased by 20% even before “The Business of Being Born” came out. One article … Continue reading
Imprint, 16 years later
November 23, 2011 I’m going through old files this week and opening a part of my life as well as others’ lives that I haven’t seen for a while. It really inspires me to (re)member much of what I’ve taken … Continue reading
Brainstorming: Rediscovering Power Throughout the Menstrual Cycle
As I get older and my daughter gets older, I see the importance of passing down what history I have left to her of connections to our bodies. History or her story, it is the body’s story that has etched … Continue reading
The Power of Birth Story
Storytelling is quite powerful. It can be sweet, expressive, soul-revealing. Storytelling can disguise parts of you that you don’t want to reveal and still allow them to be present. Storytelling can entrance a person and soften them to explore themselves … Continue reading
Birth as Transformation
Celebrating Transformation What does it really mean that families having a child will go through a major transformation? The online dictionary, an easy source of information, defines transformation as the following: a. to change in composition or structure b. to … Continue reading
Featured on PregTASTIC Pregnancy Podcast
I was featured on the PregTASTIC Pregnancy Podcast talking about core concepts in Birthing From Within childbirth prep, addressing post partum, perspectives that are explored and experiential and holistic view of pregnancy, birth and beyond. You will need to scroll … Continue reading
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