OK, I am simply delirious with joy. Check this out!!!! Giving birth, the natural way Every birth is a miracle, of course. But the arrival of Lily Luck-Henderson, just after midnight last Tuesday morning at the General campus of the Ottawa Hospital, was something else as well. Lily was breech, as are about four per [...]
Archive for the tag 'birth-activism'
October 9 2009
Preconference workshop in Tampa!
From Alan Huber’s Birth Issues blog: What do you call people of childbearing age? If you’re 40 and over, you would call them twenty or thirty something’s. If you’re under 40, they are known as; millennials or digital natives. Most obstetricians, midwives, family physicians, childbirth educators and administrators are in the over 40 category. They [...]
August 19 2008
Conscious Woman Online — Kudos for Me!
I am teaching a series over at Conscious Woman, “Conscious Woman Online“, to help encourage people who have good messages to offer to get online and start communicating with the Digital Natives who are already there. Yesterday’s class was disappointingly small; only two registrants. Wah, right? Those two registrants were none other than Gloria Lemay, [...]
April 17 2008
Mother of Sons
As usual, things are nutty in the birth advocacy world. It’s not worth going into the details, but recently, I was questioned by someone who basically said that because I was a mother of sons, not daughters, my birth advocacy work didn’t have the urgency that the work mothers of daughters had. You know, because [...]
