Belly Mapping Mama
I’m out on the web regularly to see what women are saying about Belly Mapping. Sometimes I find older posts. This one from Ann of Loxley on Mothering.com is fantastic. She wroteabout trying to figure out if her third baby was breech or not, after a previous breech. You may have to sign in… https://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?p=15164131Here’s […]
March of Dimes Prevent Prematurity with Midwives & Lowering Induction
Medscape interviews Dr. Fleishman, expert from the March of Dimes, on the prevention of prematurity. The March of Dimes has gotten my respect these last 7 years for their prematurity prevention campaign. In the beginning, I used to muse, what we midwives could teach these folks. Well, someone else must have been thinking that same […]
Low Hormones and Posterior Babies!?
I’ve been promoting iodine in pregnancy for a couple years now. And didn’t even guess low thyroid levels could be related to posterior fetal position! I just had a hunch we were seeing more slow starts to labor, to the frustration of the mothers and to a point that didn’t seem like a simply gentle […]
Where Fear Is Seen as Competency
Another surge of gratitude for not having gone through the system. Read this insightful report of this test for an “OB” class. https://myhousesmellslikevanilla.blogspot.com/2009/12/reflections-on-exam-of-doom.html The blogger, I can’t see her name, compares a care plan for a woman who has a breech baby at the end of pregnancy. Of course, I’ve met many dozens of wonderful […]
Belly Mapping Problems
Women have contacted me lately with some frustrations doing Belly Mapping. (See Michelle’s comment to the previous post.) I haven’t been hearing the details of what the problem is, but it sounds like there is some confusion. I’d like to address that today. Belly Mapping becomes easier the later in pregnancy the mother attempts it.Here’s […]
Dynamic Body Balancing Weekend
Last weekend was really amazing. It started out with me having a meltdown into the magma of unworthiness. Forget “inadequate pelvis,” my head, my heart, my whole life sucked. Maybe being on such a steep learning curve curve with life was getting to me. I really lost my peace. Anyway, the Dynamic Body Balancing class […]
Thanks giving
Thank you to all the mamas and babies and papas and siblings and nurses and midwives and doctors and doulas and childbirth educators and yoginis and lactation consultants and public health workers and authors and painters and singers and bringers and pot luck cookers and visiting home nurses and hucs and apprentices and hypnobabiebirthingteachers and […]
Funny! More Breech Coincidences
Ok, this is getting weird. I got a series of calls from three women who are all friends in WA state looking for support for the one of them who is at term (pregnant and due) and whoses baby is suddenly breech. They wondered if I knew of any breech resources in Washington state. Well, […]
Teri Posted My Breech Update Pics!
Ok, the topic of breech is so daily in my life right now. I wish I was done with my other projects to travel somewhere for more training. Somethings up. At least we are working on a related project….more on that when its manifested. I got another call today from a birth educator, out of […]
Coalition for Breech Birth Conference
Life made sure I went to the Coalition for Breech Birth Conference in Ottawa, Canada. Robin Guy and her Coalition co-madres joined efforts with UnderstandingBirthBetter.com Midwife Betty-Anne Daviss. They brought several top breech experts to Canada to share their hope to continue vaginal breech birth on Earth. Starting with Dr.s Andre’ Lelonde and Robert Gagnon […]
Fun w Belly Mapping
This post from an expectant mother’s blog lifted my spirits today. “We also got to find out our baby’s position in the womb (called belly mapping). S/He was enthusiastically responding to our hands. So our baby’s back is on my left side and the knees & feet are up against my belly’s right side (which […]
Choice
“Women always have a choice. The question is not whether they have a choice, but are they willing to make a choice.” – Kim Wildner, in Midwifery Today Issue 68, Winter 2003, “The Ties that Bind, How Belief Creates Birth Realities” This is exactly why I say Homebirth isn’t a choice, its a way of […]
