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Childbirth Education for Rural Mothers
In the area where I teach “in-person” Lamaze Childbirth Preparation classes (along with other classes), I am the first person in around 10 years to offer a complete series of childbirth education...
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Cesarean Awareness Month and March for Babies
April is Cesarean Awareness Month. This is a topic dear to my heart, and I hope to be able to share with you some helpful information, websites, online video, and inspiring stories throughout the...
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Birth is a Creative Process – Not a Surgical Procedure
-“Birth is a creative process, not a surgical procedure. I picture dancers on a stage. Once, doing a pirouette, a woman sustained a cervical fracture as result of a fall; she is not paralyzed. We try...
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Due Dates
Today, would have been my calculated due date for my second daughter – Ivy Pearl, had she actually been born on this day three years ago. The date my midwife calculated was April 16th. The day she...
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Article for The Daily Yonder and Pregnancy Awareness Month
I wanted to take a moment to welcome in Pregnancy Awareness Month by sharing with you the article I wrote which appeared in The Daily Yonder last week. I am very excited about the response it has...
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Happy International Day of the Midwife!
Today, we are celebrating our midwives and sending them love. Midwives do a tremendous work in the communities they serve. The Midwifery Model of Care brought the opportunity for healthy birth to so...
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Mommy, Me, and the 3Ps (Planning, Pregnancy, and Parenting) – Tomorrow...
I’ve been working hard on a presentation that I will be giving tomorrow for ARH’s (Appalachian Regional Hospital) Women’s Health Series. Tomorrow’s topic is Mommy, Me, and the 3Ps (Planning,...
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We Do Have Something to Offer our Pregnancies and Births!
“You are constructing your own reality with the choices you make…or don’t make. If you really want a healthy pregnancy and joyful birth, and you truly understand that you are the one in control, then...
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Daddies in the Birthing Room and as Labor Support
It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby… it inspires him. – Ina May Gaskin CPM (midwife) Some of my most memorable moments as a childbirth educator and doula has been...
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Empowered Birth – Exciting Times for Birth True!
I’m really excited this week. I announced that Birth True Childbirth Education is now a duo! Heather Bates joined with me last week as part of Birth True. She is a certified prenatal yoga instructor...
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