Some share-worthy finds from my reading this week: Homebirth mothers refused prescriptions Everyone’s outraged about this, but I don’t see why. If I were a doctor, I wouldn’t want to go prescribing or dispensing medication based solely on someone else’s okay. If it’s my butt on the line, why would I?!? This is part of…
Let me start by saying we went back and forth on deciding if we wanted to have a freebirth or not. I had researched it since I was pregnant with Ava, and wanted to with her, but Charles wasn’t feeling that idea at all. He thought I was crazy for wanting a homebirth. After Ava’s…
“Give me 6.5 minutes,” I told my friend who is a father of 5, “and let me show you why I’m so passionate about birth and tortured by what has been done to it. Here, almost exactly how mine went. Except at home, and minus the extra people and the calm, awesome dude whispering ‘you’re…
Some share-worthy finds from my reading this week: Dannette Lund took childbirth back! Despite outright refusal by both her obstetrician and her midwife to let exercise informed consent and VBAC her second child, Dannette educated herself and did not give up until she finally took matters into her own hands, to follow through on exactly…
Bindu, Life Coach to Creatives, is embarking on a fantastic journey that she has invited us to join her on, for free! But there is a cost. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is a 3-week commitment starting this Tuesday, June 8th, to: Do yoga 5x/week. Child’s pose, corpse pose, moving ossonyms (I should…
I'm Jeannie. I've been advocating for healthy birth since 2001 when I had my first empowered birth experience, the unassisted waterbirth of my second child. Unassisted birth may not be best for you, but empowered birth is. I'll help get you there.Read How / More about TCB »