Welcome to The Birth Collection:
This is a directory post that spotlights my most popular, favorite posts on pregnancy and birth.
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BONUS READ: Witches, Midwives, and Nurses - a History of Women Healers
CONSCIOUS PREGNANCY
Can You Meet Your Baby Before Birth? Prebirth Communication & Meditation
Make 'Labor Calm Spray' with Bach Flower Essences, Healing Crystals, and Essential Oils
What Homebirth Supplies do you Really Need? The Definitive List for Unassisted Birth
helping your child prepare for a new baby
RETHINKING MODERN BIRTH SERIES
Part 1: Why do we need empowered childbirth?
Part 2: Do Your Own Research!
Part 3: Ask Questions ... and Question the Answers
Part 4: The Cascade of Interventions
Part 5: Read Positive Birth Stories!
Part 6: Sleep, Move, & Eat Real Food
HEALING TRAUMA
Freeing Yourself From Past Pain and Fear - A Post about Birth Trauma
How to Have a Gentle Cesarean
BIRTH STORIES
Why we need birth advocacy: My 3rd birth story
A Dream Homebirth: Fourth Time's the Charm
The healing, unassisted freebirth of my fifth baby
FREEBIRTH
From Avoidance to a Calling: How I Got Into Birthwork
Five Births - A Personal Journey to Freebirth
Is there a place for Doulas in Freebirth?
DOULAS
what kind of doula am i?
how i ‘failed’ my first client as a birth doula
what is a birthkeeper? how doulas end up as peacemakers
BIRTH-AWAKENING
removing women from the world of birth: on gender inclusivity
on abortion as a doula and birth professional
LIFE WITH BABY
Benefits of Babywearing: Passive Parenting Done Right
Cloth Diapers 101: What to buy, how to wash, and why wool is my favorite
CONSCIOUS MOTHERING
How Birth Affects Our Daughters
Empowerment & Anger - A Mother's Journey
Inspiring the Peaceful Mother – An Interview
On Feeling Inadequate as a Parent
after the last baby: thoughts on being 'done'
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