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Honoring Miscarriage

Posted in Activism, babies, birth, birth experiences, blog carnivals, ceremony, friends, giveaways, miscarriage, mothers, personal, pregnancy loss, Resources, tagged , , on February 22, 2012 | 11 Comments »

When I had my first miscarriage, I vowed several things in the immediate aftermath. One was that I was going to write a book about it so that other women would not have to experience the same total dearth of resources about the physical process of coping with home miscarriage. While I did publish my [...]

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The Grassroots of Safer Birth: Get Karen There

Posted in Activism, birth, blog carnivals, Maternal health, maternity care, midwifery, mothers, women on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

“Midwives speak the same lan­guage, regardless of politics: women come first.” –Palestinian Midwife (quoted by COHI) I have found that it is easy to get so caught up in local or national birth activism that I forget to even consider the birth climate and concerns of other regions of the planet. Why should we care? [...]

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My Mother

Posted in blog carnivals, mothers on May 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I wrote a brief entry about my mother for a Mother’s Day contest on Giving Birth With Confidence answering the question, “How does your mother inspire and encourage you on your journey to (or through) motherhood?” My entry wasn’t one of the finalists, but I thought since I’d taken the time to write it, I [...]

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