I Can't Afford a Homebirth and Other Money Issues

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First Babies Can Fall Out But Often They Don't

Taking Back Birth

Are You a Birth Witch?

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How We Named 
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Mothering

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December, 2012 To the Assistant to the Attorney General of Arizona Director of the Arizona Dept. of Health Arizona Office of Special License-Midwife Licensing And to all the women that are concerned about their birthing options…. Two years ago, I served a wonderful, passionate, loving woman whose dream it was to birth at home after […]

An Open Letter to Women Who Care About Their Birthing Rights

Politics

Motherbaby. The sacred duo that is not to be interrupted; but often we see or hear about tons of things coming between them. “Delayed” cord clamping at half an hour after birth, the hands of the midwife or student on that precious babe, wrapping the baby in blankets or putting a hat on the baby, […]

Don’t Mess With Motherbaby

Politics

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This post is written in honor of the upcoming Heads Up Breech Birth Conference scheduled for November 9-11, 2012 in Washington, D.C. Anyone can attend, so feel free to pass this on to your midwife or doctor so that we can keep the skills of breech vaginal birth alive! 10 years ago, the Midwest. I […]

Breech!

Labor and Birth

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Caldeyro-Barcia’s (1979) studies showed what most midwives practice or believe intuitively; that coached pushing and prolonged breath holding by the woman during the pushing stage of labor is dangerous to the baby. He showed that this type of pushing caused placental perfusion issues (not enough blood flowing between baby and placenta) and resulted in fetal […]

Being Told to Push in Labor? Think Again.

Labor and Birth

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I’ve been attending births on my own for several years now. Every time I meet with a woman interested in midwifery or home birth, I realize how much I have grown and changed AND also how much I have to learn. I’ll never stop studying, researching, etc., but what these consultations make me realize is […]

4 Questions You MUST Ask Before Hiring Your Midwife

Pregnancy

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The amazing Sarah Buckley is on my mind a lot lately. She’s not the only one to talk about “undisturbed birth”, but she’s certainly one of the most thorough and engaging to speak on the subject. “Undisturbed birth”, “physiological birth”, “birth left alone”; those are just a few formal ways of describing what our bodies […]

“Radical” Prenatal Care for Undisturbed Birth

Pregnancy

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I love writing my birth stories. At less than 24 hours post birth I am starting this one, because I don’t want to forget one second of how it all went. I sit here with this precious angel next to me, and I can’t stop reflecting on how he chose to come into this world. […]

The Freebirth of True

Birth Stories

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If you already have kids of school age, you may get this analogy. There is “school”-as in public, private, brick-and-mortar building; complete with teachers, grades and lesson plans. Then, there is homeschool. Homeschool can be divided up into two subcategories: school at home OR unschooling. Homeschooling can function a lot like “regular” school. Many homeschooling […]

The “Unschooling” Way of Birth

Labor and Birth

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