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Is there really even such a thing as second stage?

Posted in active birth, birth, Birth Thoughts, maternity care, midwifery, natural birth, Neat stuff, quotes on April 13, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Is there a second stage in labor? Who says so? Who thought it up and why? How did they decide what it would be and when it would start? How it would be measured? When it would end? Is there really even such a thing as second stage? If there isn’t, might it not be [...]

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If birth were a temple

Posted in birth, giving birth, mother blessing, Neat stuff, poems, quotes, readings, spirituality, women, women's circle on April 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »

If birth were a temple If birth were a temple my body is religion, and this small form twisting out of me, is prayer my cries reach birth’s vaulted ceilings, arching like my back over holy waters, crystal clear salt of amniotic my womb–a blessing bowl releases her treasure. –Nane Ariadne Jordan I came across [...]

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Woman Rising

Posted in birth, birth experiences, Birth Thoughts, giving birth, mothers, pregnancy loss, quotes, women on March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

No time for a long post today (or, probably, this week), so I share this quote I had saved from the book A Dozen Invisible Pieces by Kimmelin Hull (p. 229): “When faced with behavior battles, health concerns, family finances, and the struggle to stretch time to the fullest, I could choose to sink into the [...]

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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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Birth Quotes of the Week

Posted in birth, Birth Thoughts, mothers, quotes, women on March 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Quotes that recently caught my eye… “Your own wisdom is more powerful than anything you see around you. The price for living your dream is facing your deepest fear; ask yourself ‘What am I afraid of most?’ Facing your answer is the price of greatness.“–@Roots of She “In acknowledging woman-to-woman help it is important to [...]

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Motherhood, Feminism, and More

Posted in family, feminism, mothers, quotes, women on February 18, 2012 | 5 Comments »

“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.“ – Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) Some time ago Molly at First the Egg did a series of posts about the book Of Woman Born. This book is an excellent feminist classic that at the [...]

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Motherful

Posted in family, mothers, quotes on February 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »

“…browsing through a dictionary one evening, I came across a medieval word that has fallen out of usage. It is ‘motherful.’ It would be good to have this word back. We could use it as we use ‘wonderful’ or ‘beautiful,’ to describe something that startles us with its wonder or beauty. A mother might look [...]

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Midwifery & Feminism

Posted in feminism, maternity care, midwifery, mothers, quotes, women on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

“Midwifery work is feminist work. That is to say, midwives recognize that women’s health care has been subordinated to men’s care by a historically male, physician-dominated medical industry. Midwifery values woman-centered care and puts mothers’ needs first. Though not all midwives embrace the word feminism (the term admittedly carries some baggage), I maintain that providing [...]

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Birth Quotes of the Month

Posted in active birth, Activism, babies, birth, Birth Thoughts, giving birth, maternity care, midwifery, Neat stuff, quotes, readings, women on November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

As always, while these quotes are obviously not my own words, I do appreciate a link back to my site if you re-post them because I have a significant amount of legwork invested in finding and typing the quotes. Most are not recycled from other pages (I give credit if they are), but are typed [...]

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The Beauty of a Nursing Mother

Posted in Activism, babies, breastfeeding, maternity care, mothers, quotes on November 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“The beauty of a nursing mother can never be explained by a little oxytocin around the milk glands.”  –The Wisdom of the Body (in a section discussing the biology and physiology of milk production and delivery) I’ve mentioned before how very much I enjoy the Diane Wiessinger’s conference presentations. In 2007, I attended her amazing [...]

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