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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…
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Photography in Providence
While this blog is a little bit of all of me, I am terrible at blogging my professional work on my business website, Spot of Serendipity, even though I vow to do so each month. So I share it here instead. Ha! I posted this morning on Facebook and Intagram today and said that I…
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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…
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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…
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Everything is changing
Birdie + Sakura Bloom = Xmas tree hunting Change. Some love it. Some don’t. I need it. Routine, schedules, repetitive motion is all mundane to me. It’s poison to my soul and my creativity. I start to feel claustrophobic and stifled. I feel stuck. I feel confined to an imaginary box. I feel held back.…
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