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Category: birth

  • Backed Into a [Home Birth] Corner: the fiction of “due dates”

    Backed Into a [Home Birth] Corner: the fiction of “due dates”

    Most families who choose home birth for their baby’s birth make that choice after a traumatic experience during a hospital birth, which typically involves anything from loss of autonomy and control to abusive and coercive treatment from “care” providers. The majority of those mothers leave birth feeling as if they were backed into a corner…

  • GFY

    GFY

    I am both angry and sad today. Depending on the moment, it could be either or both. Almost every day, I feel like a fish-out-of-water in this culture and I want to run away and never return. It started with feeling emotionally shut down as a kid and a teenager via religion and other unrealistic…

  • The MYTH of "40 weeks"

    The MYTH of "40 weeks"

    © Spot of Serendipity  Babies come when they are ready. Did you know that?  They are not “early” or “late”. They are right on time – their own time! It is going to take generations of humans UNlearning the term “40 weeks” to change this perception and thought process. If a woman’s (very) loosely calculated…

  • Trust

    Trust

    as i spend some time in texas with the fam, i’ve had some time to reflect and ponder as my ‘normal’ responsibilities are fewer here than at my own home where chores must be done and animals must be fed. we are patiently waiting for my nephew (?) to make his debut onto Earth. he…