“IN THE MAIL: Diana West’s The Death of the Grown-up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization. I was going to read it, but I had to go shop for a PlayStation. . . .”
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Jenny Hatch
Author Jenny Marie Hatch
The True Face of Birth Blogger shares her journey to Unassisted Childbirth
She shares links to the Formative Words that helped her down the path to Freebirth.
This is a really great post.
Jenny Hatch
My comment on Rixas Blog in response to her post:
One of the things that surprised me the most about doing my own prenantal care was how very seriously I took the job at hand.
I had thought during my first three pregnancies that I was particularly proactive and worked hard to make a healthy child, but until I took it upon myself during my fourth pregnancy to do the whole pregnancy without seeing anyone for anything, my own definition of personal responsibility took a swerve up into the clouds.
In the past twelve years friends who discover that I gave birth alone are very surpised, but they are completely gobsmacked when I tell them I did my own prenantal care.
The ripple effect into a family is powerful. I continue to observe friends who do so much for older children that they are completely capable of doing for themselves.
My own children seem to feel the spirit of Freebirth in our home. They are so proactive on so many levels of their lives. Not claiming they are perfect mind you, but the sense of “I can do it myself” is very, very strong in our home.
Currently I am enjoying my four year old Ben as he gradually weans from our Family bed, and attachment breastfeeding. He is so confident some days. He wants to sleep in his own bed, nursing is for babies, and he is the MAN in little boys body.
Yet he has moments of complete surrender to his needs as a little person, and happily reverts back to a mommas boy for nursies, naps, and snuggle time in bed with mom and dad. He is my first child that will self wean, I had to use extreme coersion with three previous babes to get them off the breast. My daughter stopped nursing at 4 and a half, not because she was ready but because momma was tandem nursing during a pregnancy and could not do it anymore.
My next two boys were both weaned on third birthdays, although they were also not ready. I tried to wean Ben on his third birthday for consistencies sake, but he moped around for a week and was so sad, I did not have the heart to do it.
I find it no accident that this child who was Freeborn Lotus Style, who has such acute intuition to his own needs as a preschooler that he regularly informs me in direct and very clearn language exactly what his needs are in the moment, I find it no accident that this pattern of internal confidence to know his own needs continues on.
During his pregnancy I would regularly talk to him to ask what he needed from me in terms of exercise, nutrition, etc etc… And he guided me through my dreams, my mothers intuition, and spirit to spirit to know exactly what he wanted. Up to the second he was born, I was being guided, mostly by him (and his assorted guardian angels).
This perfect guiding is SO MUCH more powerful that an outside paid hireling giving his or her “expert” opinion on the various issues of pregnancy.
I challenge all women to take on the task of growing and birthing the baby all by themselves. It will change everything in your life.
Jenny Hatch
WWW.NaturalFamilyBLOG.com
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
Cow Goddess Blogger: The Nanny parsed and pickled with her abundant humor!
“Why can’t supernanny see that the helpful help that she gives these tormented families would be so much better if it included helping them attach to each other more, instead of promoting detachment? Oh, that’s right, because she’s a NANNY. Nannies aren’t supposed to attach to their charges, silly me. It’s a sad day that the culture is taking parenting advice from nannies, and really sad that the mothers are listening.”
Check out her cartoon, it was very funny!
I also really appreciated the various comments attached to this post: Scroll down to read them.
Here was my favorite:
“I think these shows are for people who really, really dislike children and resent the work that they represent, but who have enough social conscience to not be overtly abusive. It’s an outlet, a way to heckle mother and children and let off some steam while feeling smug and self-congratulatory about one’s own out of control situation.
I never watched it (I don;t own a TV) but what you are describing sounds so depressing I just do not have words. One of the problems is that one can use editing to support any point of view at all. If you only include footage of children who are having a rough day and make it look like that’s the way it is all the time, and especially accompany it with ironic and snarky voice overs, people who aren’t very media savvy will eat it right up. It’s pitiful.”
I’ve watched super nanny a couple of times and it is just a pathetic show that zeros in on all the negatives of child rearing. Parents are dumped on for the most silly things, and that British accent really gets on my nerves.
The nanny should really find herself a guy and settle down to raise her own children, then do a reality show about her own life.
Jenny Hatch
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
Blogger Alias Mother – funny funny funny
This is what she meant, right?
My favorite ice cream before I gave up chocolate last year was Ben and Jerrys Peanut Butter Cup. I ate a whole pint of that regularly during the past few years. Yeah, I think that is what she meant…..ha ha….
Jenny Hatch
Healthy Families Make A Healthy World!
Michael Yon, The Ghosts of Anbar Part II
Over the past several years, while working into a strategic fatigue, our military has made an amazing transformation in how it conducts this war. Gone, for instance, are heavy-handed tactics, replaced by multi-dimensional counterinsurgency strategy rolled out simultaneously with targeted kinetic battles, like those recently with the 3/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Baqubah.
Arrowhead Ripper was merely the latest experience that underlines the Army’s rapidly-growing expertise. Yet the Marines have adapted faster and seem poised to win the war in their battle space. In fact, it’s been Army officers who have told me repeatedly over the past several years that nobody is successfully morphing to meet this war faster than the Marines. Of course, Army officers who compliment Marines always say, “But that didn’t come from me.”
…Some of these men will admit they were insurgents who switched sides because they realized that they are more likely to get what they want with a stable government. Al Qaeda promised them everything under the baking sun, yet al Qaeda killed people who smoked—and Iraqis like to smoke. They killed people who had satellite dishes or televisions, but al Qaeda would be drinking and with prostitutes.
Iraqis have told me some interesting anecdotes about the religious technicalities of prostitution. They are not supposed to have sex out of wedlock, so they marry the prostitute (and the house of ill-repute has the proper religious authority present to make the marriage), and then they divorce the prostitute after completing their business. Another rumor in the area is that al Qaeda tried to force shepherds to make their female sheep wear underwear. This is one I have heard all over Iraq.”
Sheep in diapers…..that is really weird! I wonder how the terrorists feel about Great Danes??
Jenny Hatch
