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grace

there is nothing so awesome as a woman birthing in all her glory

About Me

when i was little girl i wanted to give birth standing up, over a pile of hay.but i couldn't quite manage it when I grew up and no one really seems to believe in a woman's ability to birth anymore. the medical establishment is trained in pathology, in disease, in conditions, in all the things that can go wrong, and so unfortunately, they approach birth assuming that something will go wrong. pregnancy is not a condition. birth is not a disease.we are created to birth babies.when a woman remember who she is and what she is capable of, birth is a beautiful moment of existence

My Interests

birth- breastfeeding- enabling women to recognize and realize all that is within them oh and tattoos. and i like giving birth. and trees. i like them. and i really like food

Music:

alphabetically off the top of my head adem air american analogue set the apples in stereo animal collective arcade fire architecture in helsinki amon tobin billy holiday boards of canada beachwood sparks bruce springsten bob dylan bach beatles broken social scene bob marley cat power CCR dresden dolls the dears david bowie de la sol ELO godspeed you black emperor the gilded age janis joplin joanna newsom john martin johnny cash joanie mitchell kate bush lambchop legendary jim ruiz group leonard cohen laki mera long beach dub all stars love massive attack mazzy star mogwai most serene republic mouse on mars mum neil young neutral milk hotel nick drake nico otis redding patti smith pixies radiohead rufus wainwright serge gainsbourg sigur ross the stars the sundays the smiths tom waits tori amos velvet underground woo i'm worn out now

Books:

The Milk of Human Kindness defending breastfeeding from the global market and the AIDS industry -Francis et al.The politics of birth –Kitzinger.Having Faith an ecologist's journey to motherhood –Steingraber.Rediscovering Birth –Kitzinger.Birth Reborn –Odent.The scientification of love –Odent.Spiritual Midwifery –Gaskin.Ina May's Guide to Childbirth –Gaskin.Birth Without Violence –Leboyer.Birth your way –kitzinger.New Active Birth: a concise guide to natural childbirth –Balaskas.Any pamphlet published by AIMS. our bodies, ourselves from the women's boston health collective. taking charge of your fertility.

Heroes:

all those who have enabled a woman to birth. and those who've given birth!

My Blog

placental burial

we buried kisho's placenta on saturday. It's been sitting in the freezer since august. after all the placenta does nourishing babies, it just didn't seem right to throw it out. only in industrialised...
Posted by grace on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:04:00 PST

one mother one midwife campaign

this is an ongoing campaign, supposedly being positively received by the government (tho why on earth they're looking at this other new legislation i've not got a clue). it will not only give mum's a ...
Posted by grace on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:34:00 PST

the end of independent midwifery?

unless SOMEONE causes a ruckus we will lose the right to this choice like we have so many others. Introduction Independent midwifery may have less than a year to live. All independent midwives hav...
Posted by grace on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:01:00 PST

more on pain management

And as jenny rightly pointed out there are indeed other methods of pain relief which can be resorted to during labour. Vocalisation is right up at the top, sometimes words and sometimes sounds, moani...
Posted by grace on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:17:00 PST

30% of women don't "have" to have caesareans

So I'd just like to say that if babies were meant to come out through our bellies, a giant whole would open up over our uteri once we were at term and we would pull them out. THIS ISN'T THE CASE. Our ...
Posted by grace on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:27:00 PST

pain management

So, today, while getting a new tattoo (yes a new tattoo, a beautiful new tattoo!) I was lying on the table for 4 hours, not really bothered by any of it the guy next to me was grimacing and his eyeli...
Posted by grace on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:21:00 PST

some notes bout when you have an epidural

visiting family in canada and a cousin has just found out she's pregnant and is terrified- every ache and pain she thinks something is wrong, she says her ovaries are twinging she's booked appointmen...
Posted by grace on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:59:00 PST

i swear, i give up if this gets erased. a bit about induction

lots of different reasons are given for a woman needing an induction, tho a bunch of them are invalid. the only ones found to be valid, according to national guidlines are "prolonged" pregnancy (and i...
Posted by grace on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

oh my gosh it happened again!!

right i'm fed up. lets not rant about post dates then
Posted by grace on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:44:00 PST

arrrrgh i just wrote a blog and now it's disappeared and i am raging!

so i'd ranted about caesareans and got all worked up on a sunday morning and now everything i wrote has disappeared and I CANNOT bebothered so it'll just have to wait for another day for heaven's sake
Posted by grace on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 03:27:00 PST