Healing Midwifery

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Always a good reminder for all involved with birth: Healthy babies do not need to cry at birth. Crying is a sign of disress and not a necess...

~ Conclusive scientific evidence that routine (and by routine I mean scanning to see baby's position at every prenatal in the last weeks...

I'm excited by this article! I’ve placed it in my Resource Notebook and plan to give to Doula clients whose doctors are talking inductio...

Ann Hirsch writes about her experiences with Maya Massage in Midwifery Today  and provides client and personal examples of how it has worke...

Verena Schmid, an Italian Midwife,  believes that pregnancy patterns have the same rhythm as stages of labor. That doesn’t mean if a mother’...

http://www.birthinternational.com/articles/wagner01.html The above link takes you to an excellent article written by Marsden Wagner. He star...

I read this somewhere about midwives patience when attending birth: Midwives have skilled hands and know how to sit on them.

Many Western doctors hold the belief that we can improve everything, even natural childbirth in a healthy woman. This philosophy is the phil...

  “Unfortunately, the role of obstetrics has never been to help women give birth. There is a big difference between the medical discipline w...

Ram Dass has this to say about a garden and life and I'd like to tack Midwifery onto that quote: “Just as in a garden we do not ‘grow’ f...

Midwife whales are female whales that accompany a pregnant whale throughout her pregnancy, birth and three months postpartum. The midwife wh...

they invite us in women who trust us inviting us in to share their secret passage we count their moons with them waiting for a pause and in ...

Angi Gunther, LCCE and Courtney Jarecki (that's me), Doula and Health Advocate, are presenting an Early Pregnancy Class to help couples ...

Planning for pregnancy, birth or a new baby?  This class will help you sort through your options and provide you with a wealth of community ...

The below info is from the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), which was established in 1982 as a professional organization for all m...

I'm starting to realize that a lot of my day-to-day living is actually studying to become a Midwife. I also just realized that the colle...

I've been distant from this blog. A lot of it has to do with me being busy as a Postpartum Doula - spending nights with a new family in ...

Education is a journey, not a destination.

Choosing Confident Birth means you are choosing to trust your body and your baby during your labor and birth. And this leads to confident pa...

How we birth matters! What our babies experience shape who they are. What a mother experiences at the very transition from maiden to mother ...

Crusty on the outside and super soft on the inside, this Gluten Free bread is sure to please any pregnant mom's craving. And it's fa...

There are native cultures in the world that don't associate pain with childbirth and therefore these women don't feel pain during ch...

Over breakfast with my husband this morning he made a comment about the birth of Jesus and I wondered why Mary would want all those men, the...

I have a Labor Doula client who is bipolar and having a hospital birth for the first time. She and her husband are amazing people and I feel...

During childbirth women are often encouraged to drink a sports drink of some kind to replenish their electrolytes that are lost. This loss h...

Robbie Davis-Floyd is a medical and cultural anthropologist who has written extensively on the differences between the hospital (technocrati...

Birth art submitted by Mychelle Moritz of Nurture , a center for growing families in NE Portland, Oregon.

Just got back from my only day at the Midwifery Conference in Eugene, Oregon today. There were very bright and precious gems of insight I ga...

I found this recipe online and can't seem to re-find it so I can acknowledge the creator. This is vegan, gluten-free, wheat-free and sug...

Courtney Jarecki, Doula and Health Advocate 503.737.8834 Support. Compassion. Energy. Birth. Dance. Movement. Ceremony. Freedom. Life. Joy....

Interested in trading service for service? Wanting a massage or acupuncture treatment? Looking for a babysitter or someone to put together ...

I feel this picture captures everything that a Doula does to support a woman through her birth. I scanned this photo from "Birth Reborn...

As many of you know, I got wait-listed at Birthingway in January. I was put on the list because of my "short interest in Midwifery comp...

I subscribed to Sesame Street's magazine when I was 4 and fell in love with Big Bird's Banana Bread recipe. Mr. Hooper (remember Mr....

I am so fortunate to have found work that I love doing. It's quiet work that allows me to be present for hours, supporting a mom. I knee...

My belief that birth is instinctual for mom as well as health care providers and support women was on display in all it's glory last nig...

Shafia M. Monroe, Certified Midwife since 1982 is holding a small gathering at The Horn of Africa to discuss how the Spirit calls women to M...