A very merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let’s hope it’s a good one Without any fear And so this is Christmas For weak and for strong For rich and the poor ones The world is so wrong And so happy Christmas For black and for white For yellow and red ones Let’s stop all the fight A very…
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How to Change the Distorted View of Normal Birth
My oldest daughter is 7. She has recently been asking many questions about birth as she sees and hears my passion for it. Tonight the conversation went like this: Cutie Pie: “Mom, I wish babies could just come to us instead of having to birth them.” Me: “Why honey?” Cutie Pie: “Well, because most moms need to go to the…
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An Open Discussion: Unassisted Childbirth
During the comment discussions on Birth Without Fear’s blog post, A License to Rape, unassisted birth came up and a conversation started. I stopped the discussion for a few reasons. The most important being that it was taking away from the importance of the topic…birth rape. I want to offer a place for a respectable conversation about unassisted pregnancy and childbirth…
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Help BWF Become a Babble’s Top Pick for Parents!
An awesome BWF mama nominated Birth Without Fear Facebook page to be in the top 50 Facebook Fan Pages on Babble. I am shamlessly asking you all to go over there now and VOTE FOR US!!! I know we can do this. It’s simple. Find us in the list (we are on the first page!) and click ‘I like this’.…
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A License to Rape
*I understand there are good doctors and midwives. To those that listen to and respect women, thank you. This blog post is about the many that do not. Rape? A doctor? A midwife? Yes. Birth Rape to be more exact. I remember the first time I read about birth rape. At first it is shocking to see birth and rape…
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16 and Pregnant; Who is the Biggest Idiot?
I’m going to answer that for you. We don’t usually watch a lot of T.V., but the other night I decided to veg out. I was flipping channels and came across the MTV show, 16 and Pregnant. Now, I personally have no issue with the show or teenage girls and their journeys. I will tell you what I do have…
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One Mama, Two Births {Growing From One Birth at a Time}
I waited excitedly for 9 months to share my birth story because I knew that it would prove to people how great home birth really is and that is exactly what it did. When I was pregnant, what I hated the VERY most was reading stories of women who went natural and how “painful” it was because I didn’t want…
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Facing Negative Thoughts and Fears and How to Turn Them Around
This post is raw and personal. I am sharing it because I think that it may help many other pregnant women and that alone is enough of a reason for me. My thoughts are tearing me apart and creating fears. I came to realize this in the last few years. I know what I am doing and I can not…
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22 Favorite Birth Quotes and Affirmations
“Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.” ~ Jane Weideman “When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change.” ~Marie Mongan, Hypnobirthing ”If I don’t know my options, I don’t have any.” ~ Diana Korte “There is a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that…