Restoring and preserving native wisdom
One of the oldest cultures in the world is the native Australians. I was VERY aware, as I birthed in the oldest rainforest in the world, that it was a privilege to be on the Originals land. I felt supported by the awareness of women who, for thousands of years, had...
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Connection to our true nature means “getting dirty”.
18 years ago, when I was pregnant with my first daughter, I was fortunate to attend a talk on "the hygiene hypothesis". I'd never heard anything like it at the time (although it confirmed many of the healthy ways my own mother had raised my siblings and myself). On...
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Your Child Should Hate You
Sums it all up! Let's choose differently from now on. "From birth to “adult,” we’ve got it all wrong." Closeness with mother is a nutrient for babies. But at every turn, you’re given the opposite. When friends come over, they pass you around like the plastic dolls...
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Top Ten Reasons Why This Attorney Chose a Home Birth
I had all these reasons and more! For those of you wondering about what happens in the brain of an attorney when she becomes a mother, here’s a glimpse. For me, it was life changing. Saying I had a baptism by fire in birth rights, motherhood, and even in just being a...
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Meet the man…
I don't know anyone more REAL in birth matters than this wonderful human being. Who is this guy? Dr Michel Odent is famously good at being one step ahead of the game. He is a proper geeky scientist who loves a good statistic; he is the founder of The Primal Health...
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Removing Mothers “from the land”
I can understand that some of you may think that birth in remote areas is dangerous. And we have made it clear what it means for our women to birth in our communities. And you must know that a life without meaning is much more dangerous. -Source: The Conversation...
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