unassisted birth in the news...

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This is from a previous client/friend/essential oils associate. She

and Laura met at my home at least 8 years ago where a monthly

gathering of perinatal professionals shared about their work and

projects. Lots of stories around this! Posted for good news and

connections; I feel some women do well this way, but believe backup,

and professional attendance in the background - or foreground! is wise

for most. Glad to see it is getting news coverage! (note this came in

just over an hour ago, so reference is to Wednesday showing).

 

Jenny also has an ebook telling her story/ies with postpartum

psychosis and depression, gang rape in the mental hospital after the

first which was remembered with the 5th pregnancy and worked through

with glowing strength with essential oils abundantly used during

pregnancy, and about 8 weeks full Ayurvedic care pre and postnatally.

she is committed to sharing the story knowing now also that those who

have a history of psychosis are required at least by the hostpital to

go on antipsychotic drugs for at least 2 years postpartum, et al

protocols.

 

Warm Regards;

Ysha

 

Dear Family and Friends,

 

Here is the Unassisted Childbirth clip from good morning america.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4101994

 

Laura Shanley said the video may run tomorrow on the show, second

hour, but it may be bumped again for a political story as it was last

friday.

 

Here is the accompanying article on GMAs site.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TurningPoints/story?id=4098198 & page=1

 

The comment section on this article is whizzing back and forth from

positive to negative.

 

I was pleasantly surprised by the tone of both the video and the

article. It was not nearly as bad as I expected.

 

FYI, the mother in the video Christina, gave birth to babies number

two and three happily in the hospital with a nurse midwife. She felt

pushed into a c-section with her fourth simply because her hospital

had banned VBACs and the midwives who had been doing them. She and her

husband decided that rather than have a second section she would take

personal responsibility for a " do-it-yourself " birth.

 

Many of you know that I organized our second conference in Boulder in

2001 and have written three books on the topic of Unassisted

Homebirth. So this media covererage is very welcome. And I am

grateful to GMA for taking the time to do a real story.

 

Here are the links to my books and our on line video of the birth

conference, which is hosted on my Natural Family Company site.

 

Elijah Birth: http://www.naturalfamilyco.com/books_nav/68gi765/Elijah.pdf

 

A Lotus Birth:

http://www.naturalfamilyco.com/books_nav/68gi765/ALotusBirth.pdf

 

A Mothers Journey:

http://www.naturalfamilyco.com/books_nav/68gi765/MothersJourney.pdf

 

Transcript of UC Birth Conference:

http://www.naturalfamilyco.com/event/yuH610iO/transcript.pdf

 

Videos of UC Birth Conference:

http://www.naturalfamilyco.com/videos/7_2111/iz198zdg/contentindex.html

 

This topic of husband/wife homebirth has consumed my life for the past

eight years. In all of my spare time I have been either writing,

blogging, or promoting home birth as the ideal way for parents to

welcome children. This has been a labor of love, passionately

dedicated to the babies who will be born in the decades to come.

 

For more information, please check out the web sites of my dear

friends Laura Shanley and Lynn Griesemer.

 

http://unassistedchildbirth.com/

http://unassistedhomebirth.com/

 

Jenny M Hatch

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