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
|
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
Search!
|
I am also short, an inch or two over five feet on a good day! My first baby was posterior, that and failure to progress, although I got to 9.5 cm, were the official reasons for my c/sec. I had an epidural and was on my back, which of course made it incredibly difficult for that baby to turn, or for me to push her out. My sister's first baby was also posterior, she's as tall as me. After an incredibly long and difficult labour, full of interventions, she finally had forceps and pushed her 10lb baby out...on her back. We both experienced incredible back labour.
But let me tell you about her second baby. Noah was just as big and just as posterior (a family trait I have now learned), but this time she was on her feet without interventions. She went to the bathroom and was squatting, because she felt the most comfortable there, and all of the sudden she needed to push. She never had any back labour, her worst fear for this second labour. The doctor insisted she get on the table, semi-sitting, even though she didn't want to....but by this time the baby had turned, while she was squatting (and it was only a short time) and the baby almost flew out....all 9.5 lbs of him.
I am also due any day now with a posterior baby, my midwives believe the placenta to be quite anterior, and am constantly reminded to get on all fours and to visualize the baby turning anterior. This didn't work very well, the baby is low for a second baby and quite determined to stay where it is. But I mentioned that I couldn't at all sleep on my right side, and have now been encouraged to try and lie on my right, because maybe the baby doesn't want to swing up from my left (maybe because of the cord). And the baby has moved over to that side! She is not anterior, but she shows signs of being able to move that way.
My midwives really emphasize that I have the power to do these things,
that are simple, that could help me and my baby. But the other thing they
always reinforce to me, is that the baby will turn, there is not going
to be a problem, and that it is not really a concern regardless. The power
of positive suggestion I suppose. Maybe the baby won't turn, but that's
not going to stop me from trying and from pushing this baby out. This is
just my experience, and of course yours will be different.
| About the Midwife Archives / Midwife Archives Disclaimer |