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Thanks to a recent blog post, I have found myself reflecting on my own path as a doula and childbirth educator and the moments that have shaped me.
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I made a split-second decision to run into the store. I had no idea it would consume the next years of my life
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C-Sections, Ventouse & Forceps Delivery by Lisa Clegg, The Blissful Baby Expert
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By Rachel Pieh Jones A young American mom in Djibouti said her husband recently asked what she wanted and she looked at him, all crazy. “What do I want? I don’t know what I want. I only know what the baby wants. Do I have wants? Do I get to have wants?” Maybe not now, I thought. But one day,
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Official site of Vanessa Lachey features her insights on love, marriage to Nick Lachey, food, fashion and parenting in her fun and practical style.
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Does breastfeeding = drop in women's status? An exploration of the paradoxes around women, work and breastfeeding, by Paige Hall Smith.
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Brigid's Groves insight:
"...What do ruined people do? Weird shit. This seems to be the consensus of psychoanalysts as far back as Freud and Jung; the traumatized self creates, out of necessity, a system of self-care that is keen to avoid repeat trauma. This makes change difficult; it makes people who’ve had part of their psyches destroyed by unmanageable emotions push people and emotions away, create obstacles, generate unnecessary drama. As a side bonus, one also gets the fun rollercoaster ride of a panic attack, the stress moving into and controlling the body when the mind has had enough. The psyche has become the filter, both for the bad AND for the good. Self-protection becomes self-sabotage. I’m reading a super brainy book about this very phenomenon, and it still takes me a while to track these patterns in myself. I also have another brainy book about the brain itself that can tell me why tracking these patterns is a difficult endeavor in the first place, and which lobe of this most mysterious organ it involves....
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Doulas are not, cannot, and should not be saviors. Instead, we can, and should, do all we can to ensure that a woman's power, agency, and autonomy remain in her own hands.
Brigid's Groves insight:
"...Moreover, if a client expects their doula to save them from their care provider or their hospital or some overarching birth “system,” this expectation tends to speak to deeper issues that a doula might be able to help her client probe. Is the client able to choose a different care provider? (Why stay with one from which the client needs saving?) Is the client able to choose a different birth location? (Are there other hospitals or birth sites in town?)
What fears about “the system” might be alleviated by a good conversation with the doula and the client’s care provider? (Narratives about “systems” can represent real experiences that are rooted in truth, but they are generalized experiences: individual experiences can defy those generalized narratives.) These conversations are exceedingly important, and they are ones that good doula support can enhance. But the central issues in these conversations are not ones that require a doula to be a “knightress in shining armor.” Instead, they require the sort of support that where a woman’s power is reinforced by the powerful support she receives from those around her..."
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A physician and nurse practitioner discuss the emerging role of medicals professionals who ease the death process.
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Do you think the world would be a better place without the "mommy wars"? That we need to just support one another and accept that every choice is valid and equal? I call bullshit on the whole thing.
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To the fan I lost yesterday: I don't owe you an explanation, but I thought I'd offer one anyway. I do this more for your sake than mine. You see, maybe, as you later suggested, I was in a bad mood....
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Two weeks ago, Bahar Gholipour of LiveScience reported the findings of a new study that reveal that breastfeeding is associated with upward class mobility, but you probably didn't read it.
Brigid's Groves insight:
I found this article to be misguided and unfortunate. FAMILIES in general "deserve" better working environments that support their relationships with their babies---the relationships of both fathers and mothers. The answer is not bottles, it is widespread culture revolution!
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[Author's Note: I seek to reclaim a wider understanding of birth in society-at-large and in human spirituality. Birth mysteries have been invariably silenced, lost, or co-opted towards metaphors th...
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Protect and survive BAD though it has been, the AIDS epidemic would have been a great deal worse but for a strange and unexplained quirk. Infected mothers, it was...
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There are multiple flaws in the conclusions that have been drawn from a recent study comparing outcomes between breastfed and formula-fed siblings. But even if the study results are accurate, the t...
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Breastfeeding is leaving us. I walked into the living room a couple weeks ago and her bags were by the door. I ran to the room where Logan, my 4-year-old, was playing. “Logan!” I shouted, “D...
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Attached to my left hip and resting snuggly in his carrier, Taber spent the afternoon with me exploring downtown Philadelphia. At one point, we took refuge from the winter chill in a Catholic church.
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Often the lessons of parenting young children come too late. You do the best you can with the first kid, ushering him through the early stages of childhood, by instinct and expert advice, with varying degrees of success.
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Milk composition differs based on a baby's sex and a mother's wealth
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Seeing the phrase “MY CBAC” in print can occasionally have the power to be painfully debilitating. I so strongly yearned for a VBAC.
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You are not a failure if you don’t hand-mash organic baby purees. It is okay to make things easier for yourself.
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