A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a River Flowing, she goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself
Female
32 years old
D.C., Washington DC
United States
**If you are ever planning to birth a baby, or are working as a doula, midwife, or women's health instructor, I HIGHLY recommend getting this DVD: "Birth As We Know It" available at Amazon. It is BY FAR the best birthing DVD I have ever seen. I'll get you a copy if you message me for one.**
"I would prefer to die of a hemorrhage giving birth at home with a midwife, if that were my fate, than to go to the hospital to give birth again."
— Said to Judy Slome Cohain, CNM, MSN, by a 20-year-old woman carrying her second child, during a prenatal check.
traveling, teaching, beach-laying, dog-walkin, ocean-dipping, organic gardening, health & wellness, la musica, feminist/humanitarian/human rights issues, attachment parenting, cloth diapers, intactivism, breastfeeding, homebirth, waterbirth, freebirth, tennis-playing, photo-taking, early christianity/judaism, women's history, midwifery, doulas, learning, singing, worship, yoga, writing real letters, -----stretching-----walking barefoot
Music
Powerful Strong Voices in so many genres. huge music fan. i especially love worship musica
Movies
Television
The Office, Weeds, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives
But really, I'd always rather be outside doing something...anything...so I'm not in watching tv very frequently.
Books
INTERNATIONAL BREASTFEEDING SYMBOL for use in all public places. Many natural photos of breastfeeding babes have caused mother's profiles to be deleted by MySpace. Sign the Petition to MySpace Here.
Heroes
My Mother, My Father, My Beautiful Strong Grandmother who still mows her lawn, shovels her driveway, serves meals to others at the mealsite, and gives me wise advice at 95 years of age
My partner and best friend, Nicholas, the most gentle, yet strong, person I know.
Midwives all across the United States - especially those risking it all to serve women and their babies in states where midwifery is pushed undergound.
University Of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
Graduated: 2006
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Women's & Gender Studies
Minor: Health & Human Sexuality
Clubs: THESIS PUBLISHED: Crystallized Pathology
2004 to 2006
University Of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
Graduated: 2006
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Religion
Clubs: *it was quite the challenge to finish this additional BA at the same time as my Masters...mostly because of all the administrative BS that goes on in academia
2004 to 2006
University Of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Education/Secondary Teaching Certification
Minor: Psychology, Sociology, Health
2002 to 2003
University Of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Clinical Psychology
Minor: Family & Relationship Therapy
2000 to 2001
University Of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
Graduated: 1999
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Psychology
Minor: Spanish
NOTICE: ***Facebook allows me to post more of my photos (they don't delete beautiful/educational placenta photos)...and is easier to update...find me there...FACEBOOK***
HEALTH, HEALING, YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM, GLYCOBIOLOGY.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. ~ C. S. Lewis
Among Women, COURAGE is often mistaken for Insanity
If you are not outraged, you are not paying attention
God is Not an American
Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions...for safety on the streets...for child care, for social welfare...for rape crisis centers, women's refuges, reforms in the law. If someone says 'Oh, I'm not a feminist,' I ask 'Why? What's your problem?'"
- Dale Spender, author of
For the Record: The Making & Meaning of Feminist Knowledge, 1985
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. ~Anas Nin
If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us. ~C.S. Lewis
Because we are too short, too tall, too thin, too small of foot, too old, too young, too wide, & our pelvises are too narrow, too small, too untried, or unproven or the wrong shape, & our uteruses are too scarred, or pointing the wrong way, or we are too multiparous, too fertile, too infertile, too female, too small, too big, too fat, too emotional, too detached, too strong, too weak, too intelligent, too well designed to birth, not designed well enough, & our vaginas are too scarred, too unproven, not stretchy enough or too stretchy, & we're too inconvenient, too unpredictable, too demanding, too informed, too loud, too messy, & our bodies labour too long or not long enough, & our cervices don't dilate 1cm an hour on command & because when you hire a surgeon you get surgery & hospitals are for sick people…& for so many other reasons, we are part of the homebirth movement.-Janet Fraser
Who I'd like to meet: AP Mommas - especially those around the D.C. area as we are moving there in Jan Homebirthin Mommas MICHEL ODENT, INA MAY GASKIN, MARSDEN WAGNER, CYNTHIA CAILLAGH
i just read, "Birth" by Tina Cassidy (the history of how we are born) and WOW..scary..and infuriating the way men infiltrated midwifery and ruined everything..i have one word that will disturb you forever...'craniotomy'. wow..almost couldn't sleep. thank go now we have the gaskin maneuver. :)
Aloha beautiful mother...every word I write is public domain for the sake of our feminine strength, our children, and our future...I am honored that you find my work of value to you and yours. Re-post to your heart's content!~
way adorable pics mama! lil lobster on teh beach..LOVE IT. will you watch sam's video and give me some feedback before i post it final for the birth center's website? i appreciate you input!! :) ...... Photo and video editing at www. OneTrueMedia. com....
Activism requires incentive and this picture of you and that gorgeous baby is all the incentive in the world to bring mothers and children home together again...
i wanted to tell you that my good friend in cali. just had her third baby AT HOME after cesarean section with gestational diabetes..very exciting..her family freaked out and yelled at the midwives...everything was fine and healthy!!
i didn't know that about the semi coma state but makes sense. whenever i would hear that babies slept through it it just didn't sit right with me...now i know...i am just going to add that insight to your blog i posted k? so many titles we have; intactivist, lactivist, ;)
please post..a million times post it! I just emailed it out (w/ your permission) to everyone I know and am about to post the blog on my myspace b/c MANY people visit my page (for whatever reason) and I pray it will change even the mind of ONE mama! thank you for your passion!!
Congrats mom, you've got a beautiful little boy there. I'm amazed that you've even been able to post all those pictures and add to the blog while he's still so little. Can't wait to see him in person when you get back to Iowa.
