Tag Archive: Society

On bravery

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While planning my first empowered homebirth 9 years ago I would hear quite often that I was brave. And I would smile and move the conversation along to another subject reasoning that the person I was speaking with was too ignorant of the truth to actually engage on the subject of birth. But until my…

The Revolution Begins

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Recently I was catching up on episodes of The Office. I was excited to see the birth of Pam and Jim’s baby, because I heard how great of a birth it was. That is, how the writers and producers (directors? I don’t know, I’m not in TV!) didn’t over-dramatize it. You want to take childbirth…