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I have been a midwife for 30 years. 10 years ago I left the hospital system to focus on creating a way to support women during pregnancy in order to have the birth I KNOW is possible with the right information and preparation.
I studied prenatal yoga RYT 200, Hypnobirthing the Mongan method, the Mama Bamba way with Robyn Sheldon, Spinning babies with Gail Tully and Active birth with Janet Balaskas.
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Karen taught me about “holding space” before I even knew it was a thing. The lessons I learned from her altered the course of my life. My pregnancy and birth experience was so amazing that it inspired me to become a doula.
Hayley RandKaren was not only with me for both of my pregnancies and births, she was also my mentor during my doula studies. She taught me the value of honoring every woman’s experience.
Lindsay Lane Ward HoffmanThroughout my wife’s pregnancies I often felt overlooked and rather like a spare wheel. Karen was the only person to make me feel entitled to share and take part in the birth experience. For that I will always be immensely grateful.
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This is the course I wish everyone I met when I was working in the labor room had done. Over the course of 10 days you will get a clear sense of what you want, what you need and how to get it in 10 easy steps.
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🤭I am guilty of this and it is a good reminder to change the language I use when talking about birth.
🤚🏽The “natural childbirth” movement was an effort to give women control in the birth process, and to push back against the paternalistic medical establishment, which at times had embraced dangerous treatments.
🤷🏽♀️But the “natural birth” movement that once empowered women during delivery has now created a culture in which some women feel shame at not having a “natural birth”
❤️Dr. Lyerly identified five qualities that led women to feel that they had “good births,” regardless of how their babies came into the world:
❤️agency (capacity to make their own choices, even if things didn’t go according to plan),
❤️personal security (a sense of safety during birth),
❤️connectedness (with medical providers, family members and with their babies),
❤️respect (an acknowledgment that birth is a transformative life event) and
❤️knowledge (understanding their bodies, and also understanding that birth was a process they couldn’t fully control).
❤️I love the framing of a “good birth,” because it removes the false dichotomy of “natural” versus “unnatural.” The outcome everyone wants for their delivery is a healthy baby and a healthy mother.
❤️ Health includes emotional health, too.
www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/parenting/natural-birth.html?fbclid=IwAR2eBnZQbgCv3AfMRFJkTAEd3qjRW8u6...
Welcome to NYT Parenting. Here’s Why We Won’t Say ‘Natural Birth.’
It’s imprecise and can make families whose births are deemed not “natural” feel shame.This one is controversial but I want to share it because the expectations on parents to get everything right is immense. These expectations are passed on to the baby who is not ready to cope with adult values and routines.
"These mistruths are dangerous, not only because they’re false, but because they’re full of unrealistic expectations that set a new mother up to feel like she’s failing. To doubt her own abilities. To worry that there may be something wrong with her or her baby.
These mistruths when repeated often enough lead to fear, paranoia, worry, anxiety and guilt. This is the opposite of what new mothers need."
raisedgood.com/sleep-through-night-self-soothing-good-babies-stop-setting-mothers-to-fail/?fbclid...
It always saddens me that there is no official tradition or ceremony to honour the loss of a miscarriage. Often, couples are just expected to get over it and set about making another baby. This is a lovely story of finding a way to both mourn and celebrate their loss.
www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/well/family/the-japanese-art-of-grieving-a-miscarriage.html?fbclid=IwA...
The Japanese Art of Grieving a Miscarriage
We knew miscarriage was common. But why wasn’t there anything people did when it happened?
