On Monday, 10/15/2012, I had the honor and the pleasure of meeting and learning from the incomparable Penny Simkin. She happened to be in town for a conference and took some time out of her busy schedule to meet with a small group of doulas, childbirth educators and midwives at a local Panera. (note to […]
Tuesday Inspirations #3
“Having a baby is hard enough. No woman should be asked to do anything else while she is having a baby. She shouldn’t have to renegotiate a birth plan, argue with her care providers about the evidence supporting her decisions, or advocate for her baby. She also shouldn’t have to comfort her husband or reassure […]
Perfection vs. Purpose OR the Birth Experience vs. Giving Birth
To interrupt the series on “Integrating Yoga and Lamaze” for a moment… I’ve had something nagging at me for a while… I keep hearing the same theme from mothers who didn’t have the natural birth they wanted; the birth they were told they were *supposed* to have. They feel like failures because their “birth experience” […]
Does Your Attitude Towards the Hospital Staff Affect How They Treat You?
“The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the original false conception come ‘true’. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning. […]
Attachment to Your “Ideal” Birth
The “ideal” birth is usually an all-natural, no medical intervention birth. It goes something like this… You labor at home as long as possible. You eat, drink and move as you see fit. You decide when to go into the hospital to continue laboring. The transition from home to hospital is smooth. You are at […]