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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OK, I'll give it a shot since I opened my big mouth, but I'm thinking you might have misunderstood and thought I meant DRUGS, when I don't. Oh, the docs now think narcotics are wonderful during labor, they don't take away the pain, but they allow you to rest and they let you push when the time comes. (And why do you need drugs to help you rest in the hospital? Because of the fear and anxiety their hypervigilance and attention to clocks is engendering!) Just what I always wanted, to be all doped up for the most awesome, most powerful, most inspiring moments of my entire life! I'm not kidding, for those of you out there who are gearing up for the pain. Giving birth undrugged was a peak experience. Out of this world. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. There is nothing else I can ever do that will compare. (But then I am a writer; masochist is part of the freaking job description.)
Comfort measures to get through labor without an epidural (not an exhaustive list!): (these are pain management approaches, not pain relief)
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