Author Jenny Marie Hatch

Eve Magazine: Freebirthing Would you Lock the Midwives out?

Jenny Marie Hatch

Laura Shanley scanned the Eve Freebirth Article and posted the scan on her web site. Here is the link.
The Editor sent my copy in the mail on monday. She finished her article with my interview. I thought overall she did a good job with the whole tone, the stories shared, and the various quotes. However, I thought it strange that she titled my interview “Mum or Criminal?”
I wonder if she was writing an article on Abortion if she would even think of tossing around the words criminal when talking about those parents who choose to murder their little ones in the womb. I was telling one of my friends about this whole childbirth debate, and she made the comment that the very people who are the most threatened and upset by home birth are the ones who would completely support a womans right to have an abortion. I totally agreed.
She did get one thing right though, at the very end of the article she said:

“It seems that as the debate rages on, Freebirth believers are standing firm.”

That is right. I will not be bullied, stereotyped, or threatened into backing down one inch from my stance that Freebirth is best for the baby.
Jenny Hatch

The Obstetric Wall

Jenny Marie Hatch

The Obstetric Wall

Obstetric Practice creates a wall between what is happening now in Childbirth and ultimate Divine Feminine Ecstatic JOY!
Song Provided Courtesy of the Rock Band Kansas. Go Here to visit the web site.
My all time favorite Rock band is Rush, but Kansas is a close second. I love this band! Thanks for the lyrics guys, they fit perfectly!!!
Jenny Hatch

Mothering Magazine: Pregnancy after Psychosis

Jenny Marie Hatch

Victory over Post Partum Psychosis
The author of this excellent and timely article contacted me about 18 months ago. She had read my story in Kathy Kendall Tackets first book titled Postpartum Depression, A Nurse’s Guide. She asked if I would be willing to be a part of her article and I agreed. This huge article just appeared in the May/June issue of Mothering, and the digital version is up for those who would like to pay for it.
My story is included in a side bar titled, Pregnancy after Psychosis, and appears on page 61 of the magazine.
I was thrilled by the excellent information shared with Mothering readers and predict this article will go down as one of the best primers on Post Partum Psychosis that has ever been written. The fact that it was written by a mother who experienced Psychosis after the birth of her second child makes it that much more credible.
Sarah Fields, the author of this article, is expecting her third child right now.
She told me that the message of healing in my journal which was included in Kathys book really helped her gain some perspective while putting her mind back together after her hospitalization.
I was healed somewhat by reading her story of being able to continue breastfeeding, even while on meds, and the way that the hospital was so open to her husband and baby staying in her hospital room with her. They pushed a couple of beds together to make a big family bed right in the mental hospital.
Being forced to wean my daughter, compelled by a court order to take a cocktail of psychiatric meds and my six week hospitalization traumetized me just as much as the actual psychotic episode I experienced after the birth of my first child. I was also raped in the State Hospital by four orderlies the first night I was committed on a medical certificate. These horrors just put layer upon layer of trauma into the cells of my body, and made it very difficult to heal.
It comforted me to read Sarahs Story and realize that progress has indeed been made in how psychotic women are treated in mental hospitals. Being forced to take meds and stop nursing my daughter were complete injustices perpetrated by ignorant, power hungry professionals. My heart literally broke when the judge sentenced me to 90 days of forced incarceration in that evil state mental hospital in Pontiac Michigan and forced me to eat their dope.
During the six days before I went to court, I spent quite a bit of time singing patriotic hymns very loudly during my various stays in the seclusion room. This annoyed the employees, but it gave vent to my very frustrated state of mind. I suppose we never really appreciate what it means to be free until that right is taken away and we have to fight to get it back. The six weeks I spent in the hospital were a defining moment in my life. And because I was so young, only 21, and just beginning my adult life, starting my “mature” years with the stigma of mental illness was pure horror. After a couple of years it dawned on me how freeing this event had actually been.
So many people live their lives afraid of what others think of them. I don’t. I honestly do not have that fear, and I believe it is because having been crazy, I know that it is not all bad.
As I have lived these past 18 years as a wife and mother, I have always been able to follow my conscience, even when doing so was a difficult choice, simply because I had no fear of others thinking I was nuts. And following my heart has taken me to amazing places as a woman.
When I was a teen I used to wear a button that said “why be normal?”.
Normalcy tends to lead to conformity, which leads to a loss of freedom, which can eventually lead to slavery.
I’m not too interested in living my life as a slave. To anyone or anything. For 14 months I was a slave to the psychiatrists and their socerers chemical cocktail which deprived me of my health, my libido, my emotions, and filled up my body and mind with a toxic soup that took years to cleanse out of my tissues. (Haldol, Stelazine, Lithium, and Prozac)
Never Again!!!
May each mother find the healing she and her family so richly deserve, and may the truth set our world free from the conspiracies of very, very wealthy men and women, who are living most deliciously off the tortured minds of the mentally ill.
Jenny Hatch

Confederate Yankee: A Matter of lessening credibility

Jenny Marie Hatch

A matter of lessening credibility
The Yankee takes on the New Republic.
Jenny Hatch

Protein Wisdom: Everything that rises must converge: Vietnam edition

Jenny Marie Hatch

Everything that rises must converge: Vietnam edition

“From Breitbart TV (via Tom Maguire and Don Surber), here’s the Darling of Davos, John Kerry, laying out some Brahman truthiness for the proles on C-Span:

Sen. John Kerry said during a C-Span appearance that fears of a bloodbath after the US withdrawal from Vietnam never materialized. He says he’s met survivors of the “reeducation camps” who are thriving in modern Vietnam. An award-winning investigation by the Orange County Register concludes that at least 165,000 people perished in the camps.

Well, sure. But those were just the stubborn ones who refused to be “re-educated.” And sometimes you have kill off 165,000 people to save them.

Not to mention a couple million Cambodians — though the “war protesters” of that era, and their historical apologists, like to lay those deaths at the feet of Nixon and Kissinger in precisely the same way today’s anti-war crowd is angling to lay any Iraqi civil war and sectarian purge at the feet of Bushco, once they’ve forced a retreat and created a power vacuum.”

More on this topic from Tiger Hawk: Reinventing history

“The Democrats, many of whom have labored mightily to compare Iraq to Vietnam in the hope of sustaining the “quagmire” narrative, find that the comparison is suddenly and maddeningly inconvenient. After all, Vietnamese and Cambodians suffered a great deal of violence and persecution in the years following the American withdrawal from Indochina and nobody — other than Iranians, perhaps — wants to see similar ugliness in Iraq.

Fortunately, John Kerry, who knows all about the advantages and disadvantages of invoking Vietnam for political ends, has hit upon a solution. Rather than admitting that there is a huge risk that violence will escalate in Iraq as it did after the American withdrawal from Indochina, he is reinventing the history of the earlier war and claiming that no such bloodbath occurred.

It will be interesting to see whether other Democrats follow Kerry off that cliff.”
It will indeed…
Jenny Hatch