Comments for Enjoy Birth Blog http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com how to enjoy your pregnancy and birth Sat, 17 May 2008 11:12:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on Emotional and Physical Recovery from my Cesarean… by kris http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/emotional-and-physical-recovery-from-my-cesarean/#comment-329 kris Thu, 15 May 2008 22:58:33 +0000 http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/emotional-and-physical-recovery-from-my-cesarean/#comment-329 i didn't even realize i had issues about my section until i started my doula training and had to write a reflective paper about one of my births. all of a sudden i was angry and sad and emotional. it was very healing experience, but i still sometimes feel so robbed now that i know what could have been. my last sectioned baby was 3 years old b4 i ever heard about ICAN and that was only b/c i saw it in the back of a book i had just read. not b/c anyone told me about it. someone should make that info more accesible to women after they've had them. i didn’t even realize i had issues about my section until i started my doula training and had to write a reflective paper about one of my births. all of a sudden i was angry and sad and emotional. it was very healing experience, but i still sometimes feel so robbed now that i know what could have been. my last sectioned baby was 3 years old b4 i ever heard about ICAN and that was only b/c i saw it in the back of a book i had just read. not b/c anyone told me about it. someone should make that info more accesible to women after they’ve had them.

]]> Comment on V’s birth of her 7th baby, her first using Hypnobabies by kris http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/vs-birth-of-her-7th-baby-her-first-using-hypnobabies/#comment-328 kris Thu, 15 May 2008 22:38:08 +0000 http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-328 ooh, sounds beautiful:0) ooh, sounds beautiful:0)

]]> Comment on Oprah and Hypnosis by rachel http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/oprah-and-hypnosis/#comment-326 rachel Thu, 15 May 2008 16:03:51 +0000 http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/?p=121#comment-326 I'd love to see Oprah do a birth show, period. I’d love to see Oprah do a birth show, period.

]]> Comment on Oprah and Hypnosis by Do you watch Oprah? « Hypnobabies Blog http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/oprah-and-hypnosis/#comment-324 Do you watch Oprah? « Hypnobabies Blog Wed, 14 May 2008 17:04:07 +0000 http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/?p=121#comment-324 [...] Published May 14, 2008 Hypnosis and Childbirth Tags: hypnosis, oprah Check out this post to see a way you can encourage Oprah to do a segment on Hypnosis and [...] [...] Published May 14, 2008 Hypnosis and Childbirth Tags: hypnosis, oprah Check out this post to see a way you can encourage Oprah to do a segment on Hypnosis and [...]

]]> Comment on My guest post on Bellies and Babies by Molly http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/my-guest-post-on-bellies-and-babies/#comment-322 Molly Mon, 12 May 2008 05:51:44 +0000 http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/?p=120#comment-322 I'm sad to hear that your excellent idea has met with resistance, because I completely agree with what you'd like to do! I hope and trust you'll keep looking for opportunities to help young people (and I think both girls/women AND boys/men are deeply wounded by our culture's messages regarding childbirth) see birth in a more accurate and fulfilling light. I'm also interested to hear you mention that you'd like to see positive messages about birth in college curricula. I'm a recent Ph.D. in English and am also currently training as a birth doula, and I've been toying with a scholarly project about narrative representations of birth while also trying to figure out how to incorporate healthy views of birth and breastfeeding (which most young people seem to find totally icky) into various sorts of courses. I think we're on the right track, for what it's worth! I’m sad to hear that your excellent idea has met with resistance, because I completely agree with what you’d like to do! I hope and trust you’ll keep looking for opportunities to help young people (and I think both girls/women AND boys/men are deeply wounded by our culture’s messages regarding childbirth) see birth in a more accurate and fulfilling light.

I’m also interested to hear you mention that you’d like to see positive messages about birth in college curricula. I’m a recent Ph.D. in English and am also currently training as a birth doula, and I’ve been toying with a scholarly project about narrative representations of birth while also trying to figure out how to incorporate healthy views of birth and breastfeeding (which most young people seem to find totally icky) into various sorts of courses.

I think we’re on the right track, for what it’s worth!

]]> Comment on My guest post on Bellies and Babies by Nicole D http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/my-guest-post-on-bellies-and-babies/#comment-321 Nicole D Sat, 10 May 2008 14:48:00 +0000 http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/?p=120#comment-321 And that, my dear, is why our girls are in the situations/problems they are in right now... incomplete sex education from the WRONG sources (worldly sex ed classes, friends, peers, boyfriends, the media, etc...) *sigh* And that, my dear, is why our girls are in the situations/problems they are in right now… incomplete sex education from the WRONG sources (worldly sex ed classes, friends, peers, boyfriends, the media, etc… ;) *sigh*

]]> Comment on I Cut 2 Cords in 6 Hours OR a Crazy Day in the Life of a Doula by busybusymomma http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/i-cut-2-cords-in-6-hours-or-a-crazy-day-in-the-life-of-a-doula/#comment-320 busybusymomma Sat, 10 May 2008 13:23:09 +0000 http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/?p=90#comment-320 Hey, that sounds like an exciting night! :) Hey, that sounds like an exciting night! :)

]]> Comment on My guest post on Bellies and Babies by Firebyrd http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/my-guest-post-on-bellies-and-babies/#comment-317 Firebyrd Fri, 09 May 2008 21:39:46 +0000 http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/?p=120#comment-317 I love the church, but man, there are definitely some people in it with some odd ideas about anything having to do with sexuality. My MIL wouldn't let my SIL with endometriosis get on the pill as a teenager for her cramps, because that would mean she would go out and have sex. *eyerolls* I love the church, but man, there are definitely some people in it with some odd ideas about anything having to do with sexuality. My MIL wouldn’t let my SIL with endometriosis get on the pill as a teenager for her cramps, because that would mean she would go out and have sex. *eyerolls*

]]> Comment on Empowering Home Birth of one of my Hypnobabies Students by Authenticity « Woman to Woman Childbirth Education http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/hypnobabies-home-birth/#comment-315 Authenticity « Woman to Woman Childbirth Education Tue, 06 May 2008 14:19:46 +0000 http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/?p=113#comment-315 [...] does this have to do with birth? Authenticity. Take a look at this blog, which tells the story of a woman whose care provider originally said he’d support her [...] [...] does this have to do with birth? Authenticity. Take a look at this blog, which tells the story of a woman whose care provider originally said he’d support her [...]

]]> Comment on Are Routines During Birth Good or Bad? by Empowering Home Birth of one of my Hypnobabies Students « Enjoy Birth Blog http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/are-routines-during-birth-good-or-bad/#comment-314 Empowering Home Birth of one of my Hypnobabies Students « Enjoy Birth Blog Mon, 05 May 2008 03:50:55 +0000 http://enjoybirth.wordpress.com/?p=52#comment-314 [...] may remember this mom.  G was one of my students, whose OB told her scary things which were all about the routines he did to EVERYONE (episiotomy, pitocin, etc), she changed to a homebirth midwife soon before her birth.  I got a [...] [...] may remember this mom.  G was one of my students, whose OB told her scary things which were all about the routines he did to EVERYONE (episiotomy, pitocin, etc), she changed to a homebirth midwife soon before her birth.  I got a [...]

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