So besides selling vintage, working a little downtown shop job, kissing my babe and kitties and hanging out with my friends and family, I also feel that one of my most important passions in this life is my birth work.
As a women of child bearing age, but not yet ready to consciously conceive a child I was called to research natural birth control methods about 8 years ago. I had taken birth control pills when I was in high school and even though I would not say at that time I was socially conscious or naturally minded I knew that they were not a sustainable practice (when I was younger I thought I never wanted children!) and I felt they were not good for my body and cycles. I ended up finding the amazing book, Taking Charge of Your Fertility, by Toni Weschler about this time and I haven't taken birth control since (I also recommend this book for any fertility issues! It has become like a bible to me! This book changed my life! I felt for the first time that I had control over my body with the knowledge of it's cycles and realized there was so much I didn't know and felt like why didn't they (ANYONE!) tell me! I think that is when I become passionate about natural women's health, fertility and body knowledge.
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A couple years later a friend told me in passing about Ina May Gaskin and The Farm and wouldn't you know it a copy of her book, Spiritual Midwifery and I crossed paths soon there after and that book changed my life all over again! Around this same time a friend of mine had a homebirth and was amazingly empowered and I started learning, researching, talking and thinking more about all the knowledge that literally was flowing into me and through me.
I do plan on having children at some point now and I am so excited to birth them! I feel like I am still developing my personal philosphy and beliefs about birth.
This year, besides starting The Awesome Birth Teacher Training I also started my doula certification through DONA. Sometimes, I feel really radical about my ideas and views on birth, but then I realize I truly believe in the female body and babies so strongly and lovingly! I feel babies should be brought into this world as gently and lovingly as possible, as free from interventions and as natural as possible. I feel that educating families and supporting and educationg mamas and papas is key. I feel that with birth practices becoming more sustainable we will bring to life a healthier and more peaceful world. I can't wait to see where this path leads me and what is to come with my birth work and I can't wait to birth my own babies and raise them.
This is a response for the Awesome Birth Teacher Training and I am thinking of documenting each response on my blog! I really want this blog space to expand! Each week, I will be submitting a response for this training and I will also blog them! Also, lots of shifting in my personal life and if everything goes as planned my man and I are going to be moving and fixing up a house on acreage! We are so excited and I am really excited to document our homesteading adventure as it progresses as well! :) :) I'll keep y'all posted ;)
*All Images Via The Underground Press*
As a women of child bearing age, but not yet ready to consciously conceive a child I was called to research natural birth control methods about 8 years ago. I had taken birth control pills when I was in high school and even though I would not say at that time I was socially conscious or naturally minded I knew that they were not a sustainable practice (when I was younger I thought I never wanted children!) and I felt they were not good for my body and cycles. I ended up finding the amazing book, Taking Charge of Your Fertility, by Toni Weschler about this time and I haven't taken birth control since (I also recommend this book for any fertility issues! It has become like a bible to me! This book changed my life! I felt for the first time that I had control over my body with the knowledge of it's cycles and realized there was so much I didn't know and felt like why didn't they (ANYONE!) tell me! I think that is when I become passionate about natural women's health, fertility and body knowledge.
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A couple years later a friend told me in passing about Ina May Gaskin and The Farm and wouldn't you know it a copy of her book, Spiritual Midwifery and I crossed paths soon there after and that book changed my life all over again! Around this same time a friend of mine had a homebirth and was amazingly empowered and I started learning, researching, talking and thinking more about all the knowledge that literally was flowing into me and through me.
I do plan on having children at some point now and I am so excited to birth them! I feel like I am still developing my personal philosphy and beliefs about birth.
This year, besides starting The Awesome Birth Teacher Training I also started my doula certification through DONA. Sometimes, I feel really radical about my ideas and views on birth, but then I realize I truly believe in the female body and babies so strongly and lovingly! I feel babies should be brought into this world as gently and lovingly as possible, as free from interventions and as natural as possible. I feel that educating families and supporting and educationg mamas and papas is key. I feel that with birth practices becoming more sustainable we will bring to life a healthier and more peaceful world. I can't wait to see where this path leads me and what is to come with my birth work and I can't wait to birth my own babies and raise them.
This is a response for the Awesome Birth Teacher Training and I am thinking of documenting each response on my blog! I really want this blog space to expand! Each week, I will be submitting a response for this training and I will also blog them! Also, lots of shifting in my personal life and if everything goes as planned my man and I are going to be moving and fixing up a house on acreage! We are so excited and I am really excited to document our homesteading adventure as it progresses as well! :) :) I'll keep y'all posted ;)
*All Images Via The Underground Press*
