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Day 1 – Lamaze Innovative Learning Forum 2012 – Redux

November 1, 2012 By Deena Leave a Comment

I’ve broken up this post into three parts.  There’s a lot of information and a lot that happened at the conference this year.  Here’s Part 1 for you! 2012 was the year of country music.  We were in Nashville, TN for this year’s conference.  The conference was shorter by a full day due to the […]

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Penny Simkin was in Pittsburgh and I got to meet her!

October 17, 2012 By Deena Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Lamaze Conference Redux

September 23, 2011 By Deena 4 Comments

Hey Y’all, I’m back from Fort Worth, TX where I attended the annual Lamaze conference.  I had some reservations about going to the conference.  Some of which revolved around the potentiality of Elaine weaning.  (After me being gone for 4 days, she was clawing at my shirt to get to the boob… she’ll nurse longer […]

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How did I get into all this birth stuff?

February 24, 2011 By Deena Leave a Comment

One of the most common questions I get is how and why did I get my start in the field of yoga, pregnancy, birth, etc? Seems like a good entry for the 1st blog post. Entering the “way back machine”… When I was 19, and a precocious college student, a friend of mine discovered a […]

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