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Doulas at Homebirths?

Posted in birth, birth experiences, Birth Thoughts, doulas, fathers, friends, giving birth, homebirth, maternity care, miscarriage, mothers, natural birth, women on April 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »

What is a doula? A doula provides non-medical labor support—all the good stuff like back rubs and encouraging words and suggestions for different positions to help with labor. She does not replace the father’s role, but “holds the space” for both mother and father as they take their own journeys/come into their new roles as [...]

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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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Guardian of the Womb

Posted in birth art, miscarriage, personal, pregnancy loss, spirituality on February 7, 2012 | 7 Comments »

While I experienced my first miscarriage-birth as a powerfully transformative experience, my second miscarriage in 2010 was a terrible blow that brought me into a very dark and distressed place. I still have never managed to write much about this, even in my miscarriage blog/book. Following the second loss, I started reading a really wonderful [...]

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Time for a retreat!

Posted in childbirth educators, family, miscarriage, mothers, off topic, personal, pregnancy loss, self-care, spirituality, women on February 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »

It is only when we silence the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of the truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~ K.T. Jong (via Kingfish Komment) Some time around November each year for the last three years, [...]

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Footprints on My Heart: A Memoir of Miscarriage & Pregnancy After Loss

Posted in babies, birth, birth experiences, Books, childbirth educators, family, miscarriage, mothers, personal, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, Resources, self-care, women, writing on January 27, 2012 | 2 Comments »

As of this week, my miscarriage memoir, Footprints on My Heart, has finally been published and is now available in eBook format via Kindle and Lulu, Inc. (epub format compatible with Nook and iBooks). There are a few formatting errors and some other general problems (like with the sample/preview–it is totally wonky–and with the lettering [...]

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Top Ten Things I Love About Having a Baby

Posted in babies, breastfeeding, family, miscarriage, mothers, personal, pregnancy loss on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The winter holiday season remains linked with pregnancy loss for me. This time last year, I was entering the final stretch of my pregnancy-after-loss journey and feeling so hopeful that I would have a happy ending to my loss story. This time two years ago, I was reeling from Noah’s birth and it was so [...]

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Sand Tray Therapy

Posted in birth, birth art, birth experiences, birth stories, miscarriage, mothers, pregnancy loss on November 7, 2011 | 3 Comments »

I hoped to finish Noah’s book before his birthday today, but I didn’t quite make it. I’m still editing the last half, adding resources to the appendix, and waiting for my husband to design the cover for me. Hopefully I will publish it by the end of the year! Instead, I wanted to share some [...]

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Guest Post: Overcoming Stigma: A Film Story of Stillbirth, Miscarriage

Posted in Activism, babies, Maternal health, maternity care, miscarriage, pregnancy, pregnancy loss on July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This post is republished from the blog of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Overcoming Stigma: A Film Story of Stillbirth, Miscarriage by Jhene Erwin In 2007, with one two and half-year-old child, my husband and I decided it was time to have another baby. My first miscarriage occurred at six weeks. My second was [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Posted in babies, miscarriage, mothers, pictures, pregnancy loss on May 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

In thinking about Mother’s Day this year, I keep thinking of Dr. Bradley’s use of the word “motherlike” in his classic book, Husband-Coached Childbirth. While I’m not a huge fan of the book, I am a fan of this word. To use it in a sentence…giving birth may not be “ladylike,” but it IS motherlike. [...]

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The Five Ways We Grieve

Posted in miscarriage, mothers, pregnancy loss, reviews on May 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »

“…most people are unaware that our losses affect us forever, since they cause us to see the world and ourselves differently. The task of discovering ‘Who am I now?’ and finding our own path to healing represents one of the greatest challenges of the grieving process.” –Susan Berger I recently received a request to review [...]

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