Thankfulness
At this time of year, it’s always a great time to reflect on all that you have in your life and to realize the many blessings you’ve been given.  Regarding my children and their natural births, I am thankful for so many things. I am thankful that others went before us in the quest of having a natural, unmedicated, intervention-free birth and then had such passion to want to tell others about how to do it too.  I am thankful for a husband who knew to support me in any endeavor I chose.  I am thankful for a good teacher of natural childbirth who did not turn us off of the idea but make us more focused to achieve our desired birth.  I am thankful that The Lord led us

IF at first you don’t succeed…
My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. ~ Elaine Maxwell I was asked the other day by one of the coach’s in my natural childbirth class: “what did the women who took the class who weren’t successful at avoiding an epidural give for the reason?”.  I did not have an answer.  For one, I guess it’s not a question I would ask to a recovering mom who did decide to share her birth experience with me and two, I do

Latest Infant Mortality Rates
September was Infant Mortality Awareness Month and finally here in November, is an article from the CDC about the latest infant mortality rates.  It’s interesting to note in this day and age of technology, their latest information is from 2005. Some of the statistics are alarming.  The United States is ranked 30th in their infant mortality rates.  30th! You can find the full article here.

“[We] are very concerned about the welfare and health of your unborn child…”
This sign speaks for itself about the biases of natural childbirth, home births, etc.  And what is it based on? What I don’t get is how a medical center wants to deny a woman to exercise, get good nutrition, relax during labor, breathe normally and educate themselves?  Those are the tools that a Bradley Method® delivery utilizes so what “method” don’t they want to be a part of? Oh, hmm, maybe the education side of it?  D

Double D-uty
This month is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and as staggering as the statistics are, we all probably know someone who has been affected by breast cancer.  Breast cancer is still the second most lethal cancer in women, second to lung cancer and about 40,410 women in the United States will die from breast cancer this year.  There have been some great medical strides and new treatments for those diagnosed which have improve