Twin Victory

When the waters were rising from January rains, and the California hills were all green, when the white-woolly sheep were wandering in pastures and chewing the grass at their feet, then the Victorious One went walking across the expanse of her fruitful olive farm, carrying twin babies in a belly grown as round as the white moon when she is full. …

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Book Review: The Essential Homebirth Guide

The Essential Homebirth Guide is my new favorite book. It is wondrous, wise, and woman-centered. It is really the only book like it on the market for families planning or considering birthing at home. It’s also a great resource for homebirth midwives and childbirth educators looking to provide a valuable educational resource to expectant parents. …

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Book Review: Optimal Care in Childbirth

Henci Goer and Amy Romano, Optimal Care in Childbirth: The Case for the Physiological Approach (Seattle: Classic Day Publishing, 2012). 583 pp. $46 Paperback / $39 Kindle. After a friend had a “pushed” birth followed by an unnecesarean a few years ago, I gave her a copy of Henci Goer’s The Thinking Woman’s Guide to …

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Book Review: New Mother by Allie Chee

  Allie Chee, author of New Mother: Using a Doula, Midwife, Postpartum Doula, Maid, Cook or Nanny to Support Healing, Bonding and Growth (Hestia Books & Media, 2012), is clearly an extraordinary person. She gave birth to her first baby at the age of 42 at home in the care of a midwife, but only …

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