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6th Home Birth – 5th Year of Blogging
Wednesday Evening Marked the 6th home birth I was privileged to have witness, while assisting Selena with Grace and watching this powerful mama give birth to her second child and first daughter. This...
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Choices in Childbirth News: Online Provider Network 2013/2014
Reblogged from Choicesinchildbirth's Blog: Choices in Childbirth News: Online Mother-Friendly Provider Network 2013/2014 - Hello Mother-Friendly Providers! - I hope your summer is off to a warm and...
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Coercive sterilization is not a thing of the past
Reblogged from Radical Doula: This article in The Modesto Bee, authored by Corey G. Johnson of the Center for Investigative Reporting, shows what many of us have assumed: coercive sterilization is not...
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Improving Birth-Rally for Change Honolulu
Why I’m rallying to improve birth Hearing my grandmother’s and my mother’s birth stories, I realized first hand what was being talked about in “The Business of Being Born”. My grandmother had given...
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Footling Breech Home Birth
So many things… to think about after that birth. Baby had been confirmed head down 2 days prior to labor. Mom and baby are now at home, working on their breastfeeding relationship and our birth team...
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Claudia Brown & Home Birth Kaua`i
One of a kind… the words that I will always remember from Claudia, is the phrase, “I’m a fucking cowgirl” and as I got to know her, not only was she the most awesome cowgirl I’ve met but one of the...
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Home Birth #12…
I need to go back and look at my records to see which number birth this was exactly but I’m pretty sure this was #12 This mama is so cute and very fiesty She had her first baby in the hospital and had...
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Birth Matters
Birth Matters Birth Matters A phrase routinely used in the ‘birthing community’, cause we intuitively knew that how we come into the world has an impact on our health as we grow and become adults....
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Full Term Breastfeeding – What It Is and Why We Are Doing It
Reblogged from Love Parenting: Full term breastfeeding is a term which is not commonly used. You are far more likely to hear the fairly ambiguous term “extended breastfeeding” which refers to the act...
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Soft Structured Carrier Babywearing Comparison and Reviews
Reblogged from BabyCalm - Surviving the Fourth Trimester: We love babywearing at BabyCalm. We understand though that for many parents wrap slings can be daunting, we also understand that many...
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Sen. Josh Green Proposes Bill for Midwifery
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hapai-Hawaii/112696725459753 We’ve had a great run in Hawai`i not having Midwifery ‘regulated’ by any government. With the demand for home births and families realizing...
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SB2569 – Relating to Home Birth Filed in the Senate
These are the representatives that need to hear from the public the most, as they are the ones who introduced the bill Here is their contact info: GREEN - S District 3 Kona, Ka‘u Hawaii State Capitol,...
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URGENT-Call to Action
URGENT! The Hawaii legislature has just introduced SB2569, a bill that criminalizes every home birth midwife in the state who is not a Certified Nurse-Midwife. Worse, SB2569 imposes so many...
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“How the Home vs. Hospital Debate Misses the Mark”– Birth Anarchy
“How the Home vs. Hospital Debate Misses the Mark” – Birth Anarchy Having had 2 unmedicated hospital births (while actually desiring to birth at home) and now training to be a CPM doing out of hospital...
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Planned Home Birth Study
Planned Home Birth Study Slowly we are coming to a place where people are realizing, that birth took place mainly outside of a hospital only 100 years ago. Birth in hospitals have been proven time and...
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Hawai`i’s Family Leave Act – CALL Senator Hee NOW!
Hawai`i’s Family Leave Act – CALL Senator Hee NOW! From Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawai`i: “Moms and Dads, isn’t it about time for paid family leave after the birth or adoption of...
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FMLA – Family Medical Leave Act Information
Call Senator Hee now and tell him to hear the Paid Family Leave Bill 808-586-7330 or email: senhee@capitol.hawaii.gov
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American Mothers Deserve Better
Call Senator Hee now and tell him to have the Paid Family Leave Bill heard Phone: 808-586-7330 or email: senhee@capitol.hawaii.gov
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Work After Baby
Call Senator Hee and tell him to hear the Paid Family Leave bill now! Phone: 808-586-7330 or email: senhee@capitol.hawaii.gov
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Senate Committees Hearing SB2569 – with Sample Letters
Below are the committees and those representatives who are in them and will be hearing SB2569 regarding home births. Please take a moment to write each committee chair & vice chair, or the entire...
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