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Birth is an immensely JOYFUL event.  Our culture has conditioned us to view it as a painful, scary event, but it shouldn’t be anything of the kind.  It is a beautiful rite of passage in which God uses us, the mothers, to create brand new humans. Inside this episode, we spend some time really enjoying […]

Our medicalized maternity system has turned birth into a list of computerized checkboxes.  “Healthy” means good vitals to the neglect of all the aspects of motherhood that no checklist can contain.  Childbirth is the birth of a baby, of course, but it is also the birth of a new mother.  It should be a beautiful

How does a person like me go from being a fully medical, died-in-the-wool labor and delivery nurse to an all-natural midwife?  This episode tells the story of the transition I underwent as I learned more and more about birth and the realities of our overly medical maternity system.   ** Sign up for the FIRST

Our culture has normalized medical birth.  Over the last 100 or so years, somehow we have been convinced that the best way to have a baby is in a hospitaltal with a tube in your arm and your back so you’re numb from the waist down and some monitors strapped to your belly while you

Our culture has terrified most women in America (and plenty of other places) to believe they can’t labor without an epidural.  They have convinced women that going natural means you’re crazy and there’s no way you can handle it.  Of course, nobody really LIKES pain, but is you are afraid of pain, does that mean