Online Birthing Classes for 21st Century Parents

Announcing....

The Co-Creative Birthing Circle

Online Natural Childbirth Education Classes for 21st Century Parents

at the Maia Institute of Co-Creative Healing

 

The Co-Creative Birthing Circle is a new, multi-media, comprehensive, online childbirth education class for expecting parents. This comprehensive class features an additional Birth Story Collection and Birth Circle Forum. The Deluxe Birth Circles includes private email and phone birth consultations, essential birth books, and a free bonus gift.

Learn to co-create the best birth possible for you and your baby with nature and spirit. Discover proven ways to natural ease labor pain. Empower yourself with traditional birthing wisdom and evidence-based maternity care research. Trust in birth, your body, and your baby.

The Co-Creative Birthing Circle features: 

• Natural Childbirth Education 24/7
• 7 Multi-Media Online Lessons
• Articles, Pictures, Videos, & Resource Links
  
• Over 40 videos on birth and natural parenting
• More than 150 links to the best articles and resources on natural pregnancy & birth
• Recommended Activities
• Birth Circle Discussion Forum
  
• PLUS: Birth Story Library
• PLUS: Birth Humor

The mission of Co-Creative Birthing is to create healthy mothers, babies, and families worldwide through trust and love for Birth, Nature, & Spirit.

Co-Creative Birthing Circle Facilitator Training & Sage Femme: Women's Healing Arts Circle coming soon!

  

 

The Midwife is Here to Stay

A lovely singing response by Demetria Clark to the AMA's outrageous statements against homebirth midwives and mothers this past week.

To all the Midwives!

Happy International Midwives Day!
 
To all the amazing midwives who work so hard so ensure that women have the choice and availability of safe gentle home or birth center births!

To the midwives who welcome babies into this world with soft hands and a warm home!

To all the midwives, midwifery students, birth educators, birth assistants, birth activists, and moms and dads who work tirelessly to promote and educate the public about the availability, importance, and value of midwifery care!

To all our ancestor midwives who carried this tradition of midwifery through many cultures, generations, and through waves of oppression from witchhunts and patriarchy to bring this honorable women's work to us today!

To all who are midwifing the future of a peaceful humanity through facilitating conscious birth!

To all the midwives - Thank you! We love you!

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For more information on International Midwives Day - http://www.mana.org/IntMidDay.html

WaterBaby Project Video

The WaterBaby Project needs your support for funding - vote today at www.IdeaBlob.com. Watch the video, vote, and please share!
 

Pushed Birth is Blogging

Pushed Birth is the new sister site for Pushed, the book written by Jennifer Block. A sassy birth blog with articles about pop culture, current events, midwifery rights, and birth activism, this website is also a vehicle for important information for birthing women and families today navigating the modern maternity care system.

According to a 2006 survey, a mere 2% of women had an optimal birth experience. Instead, most women experience a host of routine medical interventions. Research shows that what a woman needs most in labor is support. 

Pushed Birth Blog answers women's questions: What is a pushed birth? Can I avoid it? What about drugs? What about previous cesarean sections? What about my vagina? Why not schedule it?  

The underlying message is trust your body, be proactive in creating your optimal birth experience, have good support, and be educated. A recent post refers to an Australian study that shows that women who request surgical births are fearful of vaginal birth because of misinformation and lack of education about normal birth. They inaccurately believe surgical birth is safer than vaginal birth, because of misinformation on the dangers of surgery for mothers and babies and the negative effects upon breastfeeding, bonding, infant health, and future pregnancies.

We need more empowered mamas and less interference with technology in birth. Unless your not in labor, and that technology is the computer, and your blogging about empowered birthing...conscious use of information technology can actually change the tides of birth globally through education. I'm glad we have a new birth blogger weaving the web of change.