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Richard Grant
Lori had the pleasure of working with this couple for the second time, with their second son. Happy Birthday, Richard!
July 8, 2009 || section: Additions
Roscoe Ellis
Lori worked with this lovely couple throughout their pregnancy, in their journey from hospital birth to homebirth, and attended their beautiful homebirth on Monday, May 18th at 7:54pm.
Labor began with mom's water breaking at 2pm, and within 30 minutes contractions started. Due to the fact that rush hour was approaching, and Lori wa... more May 18, 2009 || section: Additions
Roy Benedict
Lori was invited to attend this wonderful birth, as a birth assistant for their 4th child (3rd VBAC). She also attended the birth of their 3rd child a couple of years prior. She loves being invited back to serve families more than once! This birth went a bit longer than expected, but was just as beautiful as the last! Roy Benedict enterered thi... more
May 17, 2009 || section: Additions
Julian Daniel
Well, Lori almost had the pleasure of supporting this couple with their HBAC (homebirth after cesarean), but received the phone call for assistance less than one hour before the baby was born, so she arrived about 15 minutes after the baby arrived safe and sound, supported by her midwife and assistant.
Fortunately, Lori was able to w... more May 13, 2009 || section: Additions
Baby Girl
An Easter Morning baby girl was born at BirthCare and Women's Health, and Lori had the pleasure of serving this couple for their third birth, and first out of hospital birth. It was a beautiful experience, and Lori was grateful to be a part of it!
April 12, 2009 || section: Additions
Henry Porter
What a Valentine's surprise for this family! After much patience and hard work, baby Porter was born on Valentine's Day at 11:30am via cesarean section. Mom and dad were originally planning a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean), and after her membranes had been released for a couple of days, and a labor that was on and off for a couple of days, w... more
February 14, 2009 || section: Additions
Peter Christian
Lori enjoyed serving this couple for the second time, in the homebirth of their son, Peter Christian. Labor was beautiful and efficient, and mom gave birth after just 8 hours of labor, and less than 10 minutes of pushing. Little Peter is joined by his mom, dad, and big sister, Mary Grace!
February 8, 2009 || section: Additions
Luke Joseph
After increasing blood pressure readings, and protein spilling, this mom and her midwives decided to induce. Mom arrived to the hospital at around 5pm at 37 weeks gestation, and was a grand multip. Pitocin was started at about 7:30pm, and mom's water was broken at around midnight. Lori met this couple at the hospital at 12:30am and mom was sitti... more
February 5, 2009 || section: Additions
Baby Gabrielle
Patience paid off for this mom, who's prodromal labor lasted for almost a week before active labor kicked in. Once active labor kicked in, Lori joined mom, and helped her and her partner through a beautiful birth after just 6 hours of active labor, and just 6 minutes of pushing, when a beautiful 6 pound, 6 ounce little girl was born! Welcome to t... more
December 17, 2008 || section: Additions
Avery Claire
Lori enjoyed working with this first-time couple as their birth assistant.
After laboring at home throughout the early morning until the afternoon, everyone decided at about 3pm that it was time to head to the birth center. Lori met them there at about 4:15pm, and mom was doing a wonderful job coping while vocalizing. She settl... more November 12, 2008 || section: Additions
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Childbirth is an experience in a woman's life that holds the power to transform her forever passing through these powerful gates remembering all the generations of women who walk with her. She is never alone.
Just as a womanÕs heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth.
Being pregnant and giving birth are like crossing a narrow bridge. People can accompany you to the bridge. They can greet you on the other side. But you walk that bridge alone.
Birth is like the sea: One can swim in it, be swept away by it, float, but Heaven help the fool who thinks she can control it.
Treating normal labors as though they were complicated can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it.
Normal birth is indeed possible.
I think one of the best things we could do would be to help women/parents/families discover their own birth power, from within themselves. And to let them know it's always been there, they just needed to tap into it.
The whole point of woman-centered birth is the knowledge that a woman is the birth power source. She may need, and deserve, help, but in essence, she always had, currently has, and will have the power.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
The knowledge of how to give birth without outside intervention lies deep within each woman. Successful childbirth depends on an acceptance of the process.
Perhaps we share stories in much the same spirit that explorers share maps, hoping to speed each others journey, but knowing the journey we make will be our own.
Women today not only possess genetic memory of birth from a thousand generations of women, but they are also assailed from every direction by information and misinformation about birth.
Birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form and beauty.
Today, it seems that a tradition of womanhood that properly belonged to women themselves has been replaced by a tradition of technology.
Natural childbirth has evolved to suit the species, and if mankind chooses to ignore her advice and interfere with her workings we must not complain about the consequences. We have only ourselves to blame.
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.
300,000 women will be giving birth with you today.
Relax and breathe and do nothing else.
Labor is hard work, it hurts and you can do it.
A healthy woman who delivers spontaneously performs a job that cannot be improved upon.
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