I haven't posted in a while so I figured I should catch up! My job with the new bank is still here and I am fine with everything. I have officially started my doula and childbirth educator training which is REALLY wonderful.. Soooo much work but very exciting. Things work out so strangely though.. I had a partner that I was going to go into ( Read more... )

About 3 weeks ago, we (the people I work with and I) found out that the bank we work for is being sold to a bank based out of Oregon called Umpqua. Now at first I thought this was great because the bank sort of needs a fresh new face and Umpqua is a pretty cool company to work for. Welp that was until I found out that my position was being ( Read more... )

When I was in Midwifery class, Elizabeth said not to work with someone if you had any doubts. What if it is a friend that you are having doubts about working with? I am really concerned because my friend wants me to be her doula but it seems like everything I am telling her just isn't connecting. She has absolutely no faith in herself and just ( Read more... )

I think that it is fairly disgusting that we are going to hang people. How fucking barbaric. What a way to make a statement to the world that we are stuck in the stone age, and we support disgusting things. I don't care what anyone does, we are not God and we shouldn't decide who dies and who doesn't. If that is the case than not only should ( Read more... )

So I had a memory surface a few minutes ago.. when I went home for the first time my family and I went to a restaurant and my mom mis pronounced a word and I held her on the back and said we have elmer fudd here! I am such an asshole. I can't believe that I did that. it doesn't even hit me until 2 years later that it could have been hurtful to ( Read more... )

A Hand Full of Hope
If we hope to create
a non-violent world
where respect and kindness
replace fear and hatred

We must begin
with how we treat each other
at the beginning of life.

For that is where
our deepest patterns are set.

From these roots
grow fear and alienation
~or love and trust.
~ Suzanne ArmsI went to a Doula gathering ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night that was really great in the beginning.. I was pregnant and I was having my baby but I wasn't assisted by a midwife.. I was alone.. I wasn't really having very strong contractions then All of a sudden the baby's head appeared between my legs and slid back in.. I quickly realized that it was shoulder dystocia, rolled over on ( Read more... )

SO.. I started a new job at the bank and I have been pretty busy here.. One thing that keep thinking about that I learned in my midwifery class is that when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, he modeled it after the Iroquois method of governing. The major thing he left out was the grandmother counsel of ( Read more... )

I'm going through my midwife journal to see what I want to write about.. but I'm not really thinking of anything else... I learned a lot about how pagans and early religions honored a woman's life phases, and the 3 great blood mysteries (period, birth, and menopause) and the life phases (child, maiden, mother and crone) until christians took over ( Read more... )

correction from yesterdays entry.. Henci Goer is the author to a thinking woman's guide to a better birth.. Duh me.