I recently discovered a new podcasting app that is going to turn the internet into a global neighborhood.
Imagine sound quality so good that it will feel like you are chatting with your neighbor over the back fence, but your good friend who lives in England is also a part of the conversation!
This video describes how to participate in a callin podcast.
Here is the article and the comment section that followed as a cut and paste from Dr. T’s site.
I dedicated my radio show today to this post as a way to illustrate how I defended unassisted childbirth on the internet. This post contains screen grabs from the site if you want to just read my many comments.
I have had many of these types of conversations on the internet since I started participating in chat rooms, blogs, and comment sections of articles and posts critical of Family Birth. For twenty five long years, since 1996, I have played the roll of the Freebirth pit bull defending parents with my words.
Now that hospitals in America are shutting down maternity care for lack of staff and being over run with sick patients, I hope the average person can begin to understand why some of us were so motivated to birth our children alone.
At least for me, doing my own prenatal care and giving birth with only my husband attending has been a powerful psychological preparation for whatever is around the corner.
Unassisted childbirth, also known as free birth or sometimes do-it-yourself (DIY) birth, is when a mom or an expectant couple chooses to have a baby without the assistance of a doctor, a midwife, or any other professional birth attendant.
I attended the training for becoming an Amani childbirth educator in March and then took a break from my studies to focus on family matters.
Our youngest son graduated from high school and moved into a townhouse with five other guys close to his work in Louisville and my daughter Shelly moved back home.
We also enjoyed a wonderful family reunion with all five of our children, their spouses, and our two grandchildren. We were able to meet our new grandson for the first time.
My husband Paul has been ill and I have been distracted by his issues, but now feel ready to move back into my training and finish up what I started.
I only have to review the two childbirth books I have been reading, take my final exam, and teach one couple provisionally and then I will be certified again as a Doula and CBE.
I am really excited to get back more fully into birth work.
We worked as childbirth educators for eight years at the beginning of our marriage, teaching couples who wanted to learn how to give birth without drugs and surgical interventions.
A few of our students had home births and we enjoyed spending time and getting to know many people of different backgrounds and faiths.
Although Amani Birth is a Muslim focused curriculum, birth is birth and I found the teachings from the Koran in the workbook to be inspiring and informative.
I believe anyone who desires to have a baby naturally would be well prepared to give birth in any setting after taking this class.
If you know someone in Longmont who is expecting and looking for an independent natural childbirth class, Please pass along my contact information (jennymhatch@gmail.com) and let them know I will only be charging half price for this provisional class. ($200.00 instead of the full $400.00).
