Ina May’s Guide To Childbirth – Book Review
You must read this book. If you are pregnant, think you may be pregnant or thinking of becoming pregnant (doesn’t that sound like a pharmaceutical advertisement?), you MUST read this book. And here is why: 1) The first half of the book is birth stories. These stories are empowering, healing and encouraging. They leave you [...]
After Birth
A woman is not meant to give birth alone. She does best when surrounded by people she loves and trusts. She needs people to rally her, hold her hand, encourage her and make her smile and laugh. After she gives birth, she needs the same support. She still needs people she trusts to rally around [...]
My Mom’s Magical Births
Today, while reading Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, I had a revelation of sorts. I was reading the first half, the half that contains all the juicy birth stories, and I saw a similarity in all the births. Most all the birthing women were told that birth is normal, simple, a profound rite of passage, [...]
Making The Switch – An Interview With Celeste Bracey
For low risk women, out of hospital births are proven to be (link, link, link) as safe or safer than hospital births. Many who do research before, during and after pregnancy are finding that having their baby at home or in a free-standing birth center is their best option (or, in retrospect, would have been [...]
The Gate of Great Doubt
For most laboring women there comes a point in their experience when all sensations become so overwhelming, the break between contractions is GONE and you just can’t pull it together anymore. You feel completely out of control, panicky, and look for a way out. Women doubt their ability to continue, ask birth attendants for relief, [...]
My Birth Story on Labor Day
I had always imagined that I would go “overdue” with this baby (in fact, I said that he would be born on July 1st, almost two weeks after his due date), but now I was experiencing what it meant to go overdue. I felt like I would never experience true labor, but I would keep [...]
A Poem
Becca little one, you came like a whisper perfectly and wonderfully made your soul full, content in mommy’s arms lullabies sung in your honor filled the hush in the sacred place a gaze to your mother a gift resting on her breast you slipped away quietly, peacefully into Abba’s arms Copyright © 2010-2011 Lindsey Morrow, [...]
Lindsey Morrow, along with her readers, rises from maiden to mother – one of the most profound and transformative journeys of life. She hopes to inspire women to be mindful in their experiences, revealing new questions and solutions each step of the way.
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