About Me

I certainly never thought I would put a picture of myself in labor on the web but this picture sums up why I was bitten by birth bug. That is me, smiling, during a contraction. Yep, during a contraction... Those were some good birthing hormones. Wow! What an awesome, in the full sense of the word awesome, awe-inspiring, the kind of awe inspired by a glorious sunset in a blue-water boat on the ocean and miracles, a core-shaking experience that you keep coming back to again and again. What was I doing between contractions? Singing. A vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC, you will see that word again here), upstairs in our newly painted yoga room at the end of October and a few days later I was registering on-line for the January ALACE labor-assistant workshop. A few weeks later, saying goodbye to my midwife, I tried to say, I have to do this...how do I do this...what you do... My midwife mentioned the upcoming midwifery conference in Baltimore and the rest, as they say, is herstory. EVERY mom/baby deserves an empowered birth. I have heard too much pain associated with people's birth stories. There must be change.