by Jane Beal, PhD, CD (DONA), CCE (BWI), CLS 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 …
Semantics of Birth Brittany Sharpe McCollum, CCE(BWI), CD(DONA) Language has incredible potential to build community, strengthen concepts and definitions, and create empowerment. With these great strengths comes the conflicting potential to to segregate, disempower, and induce fear. Just recently in a class I facilitated, an expectant dad brought up the …
by Cathy Daub, BWI President A few weeks ago when I was seeking donations for the silent auction at our recent Celebrating Birth event, I walked into a store. The woman at the counter was about seven months pregnant with her first baby. We started talking about her plans for giving birth. As I was …
By Mali Schwartz Michel Odent, pioneer of Primal Health In thinking about how birth has been viewed throughout the ages, it wasn’t that long ago that childbirth was considered a mystery – one that engendered both fear and joy. The process of how an embryo developed in the uterus or how the actual birth could …
By Shandus Parish I attended the BirthWorks Childbirth Educator workshop on February 1-3, 2013, in Huntsville, AL, with facilitator Sally Healey. Although the weekend was packed with challenging exercises and conversation, I had a wonderful experience engaging in self-reflection, learning a great deal about myself, and forging deeper relationships with a group of women …
Kerstin Unvas-Moberg This is Part Two of BWI President Cathy Daub’s report on the Mid-Pacific Womb Ecology Conference, held in Honolulu, HI in October of 2012. From a lecture by Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg MD, PhD Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg began her lecture by describing oxytocin as a highly charged protein that does not pass membranes easily. Thus, it …
This is Part 1 of Cathy Daub’s report on the Mid-Pacific Womb Ecology Conference, held in Honolulu, HI in October 2012. By Cathy Daub, BWI President In October of 2012, I had the pleasure of attending the Mid-Pacific Womb Ecology Conference in Honolulu, HI. The concept of Womb Ecology, which is promoted by Michel Odent, …
By Cathy Daub, BWI President When Roanna Rosewood contacted me and asked me to be part of her birth visionaries platform for the launching of her new book “Cut, Stapled, and Mended,” I immediately accepted. Her book is her story of having had two cesareans followed by a VBAC. It is conversational and enjoyable …
–> by Jane Beal, PhD, CD(DONA), CCE(BWI), CLS 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 …
We Must Do More to Honor Birth as a Peak Life Experience ` My name is Molly Wales. I am the director of The Birth Circle (a consumer birth group) in Athens, Ohio, and am a BirthWorks childbirth educator. I’m here today to talk to you about why I believe that we aren’t doing enough …
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