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A Virtual Mother Blessing for Molly Westerman!
I spy...a pregnant woman ready for some honor and celebration! In 2007, I started blogging for Citizens for Midwifery and one of my favorite blogs was a little gem then called Feminist Childbirth...
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Birthday!
Today is my birthday and my mom sent me a guest post about my own birth! Molly’s Birth Story (33 years later) May 3, 2012 At the time of Molly’s birth in 1979, we lived in a 10 x 30, un-insulated...
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Book Review: Lady’s Hands, Lion’s Heart ~ A Midwife’s Saga
Lady’s Hands, Lion’s Heart: A Midwife’s Saga by Carol Leonard, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-615-19550-6. Bad Beaver Publishing, $15.00, 363 pages, soft cover. www.badbeaverfarm.com Reviewed by Molly Remer, Talk...
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Children’s Book Review: We’re Having a Homebirth
We’re Having a Homebirth by Kelly Mochel Softcover, Stapled, 16 pages www.homebirthchildrensbook.com Reviewed by Molly Remer, Talk Birth We’re Having a Homebirth is a delightful new children’s book...
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Strong, Strong…
I woke up this morning with this quote running through my head and thinking of a pregnant friend of mine. Since her story is not mine to tell, suffice to say, she had a long and winding road to reach...
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As dear as breathing…
“If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that is as dear to life as breathing.” –Ami McKay “Mothers need to know that their care and...
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Book Review: Fathers-To-Be Handbook: A Road Map for the Transition to Fatherhood
Fathers-To-Be Handbook: A Road Map for the Transition to Fatherhood By Patrick Houser Creative Life Systems, 2007 Softcover, 160 pages, $16.95. ISBN: 978-0-615-23338-3 www.fatherstobe.org Reviewed by...
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Tuesday Tidbits: Birth Pause
Last year I wrote about the birth pause, that timeless moment of inhaling after birth and exhaling into motherhood: This moment when mother meets baby, earthside. Malloy notes that for many women, the...
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Birth Regrets?
“I usually talk in my classes about how ‘this’ is the only chance you’re going to get to birth this baby. Sure you may go on to have other babies, but you only get *THIS* chance to birth *THIS* baby. I...
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Book list: Preparing Children for Homebirth
I’m on a book list kick apparently! The theme of our spring issue of the Friends of Missouri Midwives newsletter was Siblings. Happily, I got a lot of great content for this issue without having to...
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Film Reaction: Birth Story
I have never met anyone with more than a passing interest in birth activism who has not heard of Ina May Gaskin. She isn’t referred to as a the world’s most legendary midwife for nothing! But, how did...
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A Mother’s Nest
“Although pregnancy and birth is a richly intuitive and instinctive process, a woman will prepare her ‘nest’ and birth according to the style of her culture, in the same way that a particular species...
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Wednesday Tidbits: Pregnancy and the Sacred
“I see the beautiful curve of a pregnant belly shaped by the soul within.” –Hafiz (quoted in The Art of Pregnancy) Today we’re heading over to my parents’ house to see my brother and his wife for the...
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Thesis Tidbits: Feminism, Midwifery, and Motherhood
“Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.” –Carol Lee Flinders (in The...
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Ready or Not!
I woke up this morning thinking that considering how close my due date is to Halloween, I’m surprised I have not managed a pumpkin + belly picture of any kind! So, despite the fact that I am intensely...
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Welcoming Tanner Matthias!
“There really was a baby!” –Me, in birth video As was my pregnancy custom, on October 3oth I woke up around 3:00 a.m. with definite contractions. They were spaced about 30 minutes apart, however, and I...
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Tuesday Tidbits: International Day of the Midwife
Today is International Day of the Midwife and I find myself reflecting on the many midwives I have known and the incredibly diversity and gifts of the women who join this profession. In addition to the...
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Happy Birth-Day: Tanner’s Home Water Birth Video
Today, my sweet, energetic, fiery, powerhouse of a baby boy turned one! In honor of his birthday, Mark finished putting together Tanner’s birth video. This is the first time I’ve ever had any video of...
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Tuesday Tidbits: Waterbirth & Healthy Babies
“It takes force, mighty force, to restrain an instinctual animal in the moment of performing a bodily function, especially birth. Have we successfully used intellectual fear to overpower the...
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