“The best labor support will protect a woman’s privacy and insure that she is not disturbed so that she can tap into her inner wisdom and dig deep to find the strength she needs to give birth.” ~ Judith Lothian
Tuesday Inspirations #5
“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers; strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.” ~ Barbara Katz Rothman
Flying the Friendly Skies, with No Maternity Leave Policy
Last week, I took my kids (sans husband) to Los Angeles to visit family. Our first flight was a puddle jumper from Pittsburgh to Cleveland, from there on to LA. That itty bitty plane had just one wonderfully attentive flight attendant. Her name was Marie and she was from Haiti. Marie took a liking to […]
Tuesday Inspirations #4
“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“I didn’t know what I didn’t know.”
I hear this quite a bit from moms who are pregnant with their second or third child. I hear this from moms who didn’t take a childbirth preparation class. I also hear it from moms who took a childbirth prep class that focused on natural birth only and neglects to cover the reality of hospital birth in […]