The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
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I just had my mind expanded this morning by Laureen Hudson's hour long online session on how to use the internet to get a message out. Laureen's session “Creating an Online Presence," gave me a wealth of information in a short time and impressed me with how many people are out there who completely rely on the internet for their information. I needed that, and maybe you do, too. - Ina May Gaskin I just hung up the phone from doing the hour long session with
Laureen Hudson on “Creating an Online Presence”. Laureen’s know-how
and expertise were enough to wake up even the birth oldtimers like me and
Ina May to the many unused opportunities of the internet. Laureen’s
engaging and easygoing teaching style made even those scary (to me) terms
like “hypertext, streaming, wordpress, technorati, feedreader and trackback”
start to make sense. Her passion is to reach the generation of young
women who have not yet given birth BEFORE they fall into the black hole
of aggressive obstetrics. I came away from the class today with lots
of ways to improve my website and make it more modern, usable and interesting
for readers. This class will run again this coming Friday (August
22) and I heartily recommend it.
Cost: $35 per session Each session will be 60 minutes in length Creating An Online Presence
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It brought back my baby's birth. After I had labored for a long time, I had a walking epidural. They only last about 2 hours. It wore off and I asked for another. The doctor had already been telling me that I would have to have a section, but that I could wait if I wanted to. Thanks for the support, Doc. He said he would order the epidural reloaded (whatever the term is). Then he stood out in the hallway for an hour flapping his jaws with another doctor. Right outside my door where he could hear me moaning and eventually yelling and eventually crying.
I knew he was punishing me for not doing what he wanted. It took two hours to get the epidural. I was going from 7cm to 8.5 cms and having a hard time.
My birth team kept asking the nurses where the pain relief was. They said the doctor had never ordered it. It was torture, the barbaric way he punished us for not going along. It wasn't the labor that was hard, it was the psychological aspect of it that was weird, like I was the enemy. There is a lot more to the story, but I'll never understand how he could be so vindictive. Oh, I wasn't sweet. My nurse kept saying that the doctor wanted to talk to me before he ordered the epidural. (After he told me he would order it). I yelled to the nurse, "He's been standing outside the f*****g door for forty-five f*****g minutes, when's he going to talk to me!" I really resent that my birth energy was squandered fighting with the doctor.
All I wanted to do was have my baby, I did not need anyone breathing
down my neck.
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