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DVD Review: Expecting More

Posted in active birth, Maternal health, mothers, Neat stuff, pregnancy, prenatal fitness, Resources, reviews, self-care on May 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

DVD Review: Expecting More Prenatal exercise program Two disc set, 230 minutes $39.95 Daily Sweat, 2011 http://sarahaley.com/about/expecting-more/ Reviewed by Molly Remer, Talk Birth Fun, energetic, and challenging, Expecting More is a prenatal exercise program developed and hosted by prenatal fitness expert, Sara Haley. Developed and filmed during her own pregnancy, Sara created Expecting More out of [...]

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Virtual Mother Blessing, Part 2

Posted in birth, ceremony, friends, mother blessing, mothers, pregnancy, women, women's circle on April 18, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Last week I posted about a virtual mother blessing for Molly Westerman of the blog First the Egg. Tuesday, I emailed her a “blessingway in your inbox” containing the words of birth energy, thoughts, and encouragement emailed by her friends and family as well as a recording of the blessingway chant, “Woman Am I,” that [...]

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A Virtual Mother Blessing for Molly Westerman!

Posted in birth, birth art, Birth Thoughts, friends, giving birth, homebirth, mother blessing, mothers, pregnancy, women, women's circle on April 10, 2012 | 7 Comments »

In 2007, I started blogging for Citizens for Midwifery and one of my favorite blogs was a little gem then called Feminist Childbirth Studies. The blog’s author, Molly Westerman, later became more public with her blogging identity and began writing her current blog, First the Egg, a feminist resource on pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I [...]

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Talk Less, Learn More: Evolving as an Educator

Posted in birth, birth classes, birth education, childbirth educators, pregnancy, prenatal yoga, Resources, writing on March 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Since late 2006, I have written at the top of each of my teaching outlines: “Talk less, listen more.” This simple reminder has  fundamental importance and has completely revolutionized how I structure and guide my childbirth classes. During each series that I teach, I realize how listening to the women and giving them a space [...]

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An Act of Motherhood

Posted in Activism, birth, Birth Thoughts, pregnancy, quotes on March 5, 2012 | 5 Comments »

Some time ago I read a clever essay by Jeannie Babb Taylor called “May, 2052.” It is about birth in the future and is told from the perspective of a grandmother who gave birth in 2007, sharing with her granddaughter how birth was “back in the day” and the granddaughter being shocked by how horrible [...]

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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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Polymer Clay Birth Power Pendants

Posted in birth art, Neat stuff, pregnancy, tagged on December 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Inspired by a tutorial pinned by a friend on Pinterest, I made a bunch of polymer clay birth power pendants this weekend. Short version instructions are to roll out polymer clay in a pasta maker. Stamp something cool on them using a rubber stamp and cut it out using a clay/cookie cutter and then either [...]

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Birth Fear

Posted in active birth, birth, birth education, birth experiences, Birth Thoughts, giving birth, maternity care, mothers, natural birth, normal birth, pregnancy, quotes on November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“…if you want to know where a woman’s true power lies, look to those primal experiences we’ve been taught to fear…the very same experiences the culture has taught us to distance ourselves from as much as possible, often by medicalizing them so that we are barely conscious of them anymore. Labor and birth rank right [...]

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Happy Halloween!

Posted in family, off topic, personal, pregnancy on October 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This time last year I was entering the third trimester of my pregnancy. It feels almost surprising to me to look back at my pictures and posts from that time. I love having it be my past experience now—it feels great. And, in some ways it seems so far away that it is hard to [...]

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Moon Salutation Yoga Series for Blessingway or Women’s Gathering

Posted in ceremony, mother blessing, Neat stuff, pregnancy, prenatal yoga, women on October 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »

At my blessingway with my second son, my mom led us through a moon salutation together outside and then we all entered the blessingway space via a “birth arch” made with the women’s arms (think London Bridge only all in a row making a channel of arms to pass through). This weekend, we had a [...]

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