From a new documentary called Babies. This is awfully cute.
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We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.
Laura Stavoe Harm
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This reminds me of labor. It’s so important to stay present and get through contractions one at a time, totally letting the last one go. It’s a lesson for life really, and the cure for overwhelm, which is in actuality just evidence of not being in the present moment. Today’s mantra: there is only this moment, and in this moment there is hope.
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Great book tip! Being inclusive to all the ways families come to be is so important in this work. Love it & definitely adding it to the HDNYC Store.
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This weekend I half-assedly flipped through The Doula’s Guide to Birth by Ananda Lowe and Rachel Zimmerman. As far as birth books go (and you know I’ve been reading them like crazy) this one was the most inclusive so far. What I mean is that they didn’t stop at explaining all of the birth options, but also had sections for lesbians, single women, surrogate mothers, and women who chose adoption. Let’s just say no other birth book I’ve read so far has discussed whether or not to have the sperm donor present at the birth! Just for its inclusiveness to all women giving birth, I would recommend this book.
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The quote below sums up what I think is one of the most important aspects of the doula role. It is critical, exciting, and soul satisfying to work with birthing women in a way that helps create strong, empowered, know-they’re-rockstars mamas.
If you’re a mama-to-be, make sure that everyone you choose and allow to be part of your birth makes you feel all of those things. You wouldn’t set off to run a marathon with anything less than a team of coaches and sideline support who 100% believe in your ability to rock it out. This is your marathon.
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The moment a child is born,
The mother is also born.
She never existed before.
The woman existed, but the mother, never.
A mother is something absolutely new.
- Rajneesh
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WOW. What a great couple. Beautiful!
Okay…
I really..really enjoy my wife, Hannah.
This could be stated as something obvious…that maybe you’re married because you obviously enjoy her so much — that you wanted to be together for, well life.
Doing life together.
I do love this phrase, because that’s what it is.
Doing life together.
For those who don’t know, Hannah is a doula…she assists women in pre-natal, birth and postpartum with all things birth related – emotional, comfort exercises, and technical…things…. [and by technical, I mean helping with intimidating doctor lingo.]
But another word I could use to describe Hannah in this process is an advocate.
She empowers the women she works with to make their own decisions about their own birth – not a doctor who wants to be home by 5pm and schedules a “crucial” c-section. (but that’s for another day..)
She advocates for their freedom to make choices and to feel in control of what their bodies can do.
I must say…I am so intrigued by it all.
I’ve seen too many illustrations of breasts and bellies…and…well…you get the picture. [literally.]
“10 centimeters…!?” I proclaim in awe.
Yes,
10 centimeters.
Needless to say…I’m so proud of Hannah – how confident she is to help guide these women through highly emotional times and the impact it has on her… So much life in it all…it’s incredible.
Hannah got a call at 11:30 last night as she was in that ‘mid-dose-off’ kind of sleep. It was a momma who was beginning the first stages of labor. I sat…and watched Hannah go from sleepytime to “Do-Work Doula” explaining that “Yes..that’s fine…that’s going to happen” and “You should try to rest if you can, but it’s completely up to you to make these decisions”.
3am rolled around as I was slapped awake by a phone call from Han’s client who needed Han to come be with her. Hannah got up, got dressed and took a cab to their house.
Simply…incredible. Such an intimate moment in these peoples’ lives…and Hannah is there and is trusted.
She is a comfort to them because she is empowering and advocating for them to have the best birth possible by making their own decisions and affirming their thoughts- creating such a powerful birth experience.
This is just one of the reasons I enjoy Han so much…besides the fact that she’s such an incredible person, friend, wife…she is truly an inspiration to me and teaches me so much about loving others – and expanding my heart for God and the Beloved.
yep.
my wife’s a doula.
and she kicks ass.
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Pacing The Panic Room: the belly pictures series
The daddy of this “bump” made a photo series of his pregnant mama with notes for their little one. The whole thing is so amazing and I can’t imagine how cool this will be for their family to have forever. Click through for all the photos, including the last one which has pictures of the baby, out of the bump, following his entry into this world via home birth.
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