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Changing Visions

Posted in birth education, childbirth educators, mothers, parenting, personal, self-care, spirituality, thealogy, women, women's circle, writing on May 18, 2012 | 7 Comments »

I’ve been moving in this direction for quite some time— really probably since my miscarriage-birth experience in late 2009—but I’ve decided that it is officially time for me to take a break from actively teaching birth classes. When I first started teaching in 2005, I envisioned having classes with 5-6 couples at a time. I [...]

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A Tale of Two Births

Posted in active birth, birth, birth experiences, birth stories, Birth Thoughts, childbirth educators, friends, giving birth, midwifery, mothers, women, writing on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

As Penny Simkin has frequently noted: “We can’t control labor, whether it’s hard; that’s a leap of faith. But we can always control how we care for [the mother]” [1] In 2001 and in 2004, I attended the births of two of my dear friend’s children in the same hospital in a mid-sized Midwestern city.  [...]

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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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Postpartum Thoughts/Feelings, Part 2

Posted in babies, mothers, personal, postpartum, self-care, women, writing on February 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »

“The time of danger, what needs to be survived, comes at different times for mothers. For me, it came early — during my [child]‘s infancy.” –From Sleeping Beauty & The Fairy Prince: A Modern Retelling By Cassie Premo Steele After posting my “playing my music” essay containing an exploration of my postpartum feelings after the [...]

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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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Circles Writing

Posted in birth, mother blessing, self-care, women, women's circle, writing on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

each time we pose pen or pencil to paper we connect with who we are         who we were       who we want to be we are circles of women writing together     apart    in dialogue     alone we write: wherever we are     when we’re overwhelmed to clear our minds to express our anger, to clarify our thoughts when [...]

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2011 Blog Year in Review

Posted in babies, birth, family, mothers, women, writing on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The dawn of 2011 saw me preparing to meet my new baby girl. I was given a beautiful blessingway (and attended several others during the year). Then, I gave birth to her magical, tiny self on January 19. As the year passed, she got bigger and bigger and bigger: Three Month a-Baby! Six Months Eightmonthababy! Nine [...]

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A Writer’s Prayer

Posted in mothers, off topic, personal, poems, writing on November 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I often use my blog as as a means of saving thoughts and ideas for “later” or for storing the ideas of other people for future reference or reflection. Sometimes I feel like it is silly to do this–why write a blog post that primarily consists of quotes that I want to remember or use [...]

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Writing and Nursing

Posted in breastfeeding, family, writing on September 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Today, I came across an old quote I had saved from the book The Writer’s Life. Essentially a collection of quotes from the diaries of famous writers like John Steinbeck, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Mark Twain, etc., the compilers of the book went through authors’ diaries and put together a new book—it is organized [...]

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Nursing Johnny Depp

Posted in breastfeeding, family, mothers, writing on August 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »

While planning posts for World Breastfeeding Week, I realized that I’ve never posted the essay for which I am most “famous” on my own blog! “Nursing Johnny Depp” originally appeared in Literary Mama in 2009 and an excerpt was used in the 2010 edition of The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding in the section about nursing [...]

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