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Comedy of Eris: strip mining and epidurals
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008. Strip mining and epidurals. I witnessed a beautiful vag birth tonight. a baby girl oozed silently into the world, thick with vernix and bathed in amniotic fluid. she was pink in seconds and flew right to her mama's breast, unhindered by gravity or any other worldly tethers. I don't think epidurals are smart, but i don't blame women for getting them. In a world where no one trusts, loves, or respects our bodies, how can we? It's where the education comes in, though, i think.
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Comedy of Eris: conscious contraception.
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Saturday, June 28, 2008. Burning a book. i've. Never felt so vehement about a book before. Conscious conception by jeanine. Baker and her husband. i bought it used and on sale at sqecial. Media because i loved her book hygeia. A woman's herbal. it's all this new- agey. Hippie stuff about the fertility awareness method, adding some astrological influences. stuff i could be into. at least sort of. Not even saying that one has to be pro-choice to be a feminist. i'm. I guess any person who is anti-abortion w...
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Comedy of Eris: up the SAHDS!
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Sunday, March 23, 2008. I totally love and respect all the stay-at-home-dads (SAHDs). Mine is the best! You guys take shit from patriarchal bastards, deal with whiny kids all day, and support your partners' decisions/rights to have a job outside the home. I like my job. i don't love it; it's a job, you know? But i surely like it better than any job my partner had when i was pregnant, new mothering, and/or going to school. and i make twice as much money as he did. that helps. My mother wears combat boots.
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Comedy of Eris: worst of the worst
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008. Worst of the worst. I was just reading navelgazing midwife's blog. About post-partum hemorrhage and thinking about home birth. I never really thought about the possiblity of there being a problem with both baby and mom when i had my home birth. wow. what an ignorant mama i was. Thankfully i had a great outcome - as most mamas do. but what if i hadn't? What would my midwife have done? Who would she have saved? I live at least 50 minutes away from a hospital with an OB dept or an OR.
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Comedy of Eris: she can do it herself.
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Sunday, May 4, 2008. She can do it herself. I want to tell midwives something that i just figured out. It's so important, but so simple that it must get forgotten all the time. You can't take your self to a birth. There are lots of things you can take with you: fetoscope, cord clamp, ambu bag, respect, trust, knowledge, homeopathics, pitocin, etc. Leave your self at home. When you respect this place, there are less complications; physical and emotional. when you respect a woman this much, she may int...
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Comedy of Eris: setting the record straight. or curvy...
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Friday, March 7, 2008. Setting the record straight. or curvy. I guess the last couple blogs that i have posted have been pretty critical of homebirth midwifery. I've gotten a couple of comments that have been very. Homebirth, and although i didn't expect them, i'm not very surprised. i don't agree with their positions. I feel the (probably purely vain) need to clarify my positions. I passionately believe in homebirth. I believe it is a woman's right to choose where and with whom she gives birth. Worst of...
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Comedy of Eris: granny midwife
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008. This job has got me thinking about getting high.-er education. Birth in this country sucks. with the second highest infant mortality rate and not much better maternal mortality rate in a "developed" country, birthing women need all the help they can get. Reasons i hate (the) midwives (in my area):. They think they're soo cool. They say stuff like, "if. Couldn't get that baby out.". They fight amongst eachother way too much. They don't respect patient confidentiality. Midwife...
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Comedy of Eris: and now for something completely different...
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Monday, March 10, 2008. And now for something completely different. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A French Kitchen Adventure. A Midwife in Dialogue with Medicine. Carla Hartley's Birth Truth. My mother wears combat boots. My thoughts and activities in dharamsala. One tenacious baby mama. Rebel grrls and wise women. And now for something completely different. Setting the record straight. or curvy. Worst of the worst. View my complete profile.
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Comedy of Eris: death midwifery
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008. I just found this. After i completed my OB rotation in nursing school i decided i didn't want to be a midwife anymore. the area of nursing that i felt most drawn to after that decision was hospice. There doesn't seem to be much of a difference between the sacred spaces that birth and death create. not to me. Both birth and death are transitions that require everyone present to let go. trust. believe. be present. Yes there are major differences, but do there need to be? My thought...
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Comedy of Eris: womb to tomb
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Thursday, January 31, 2008. According to NPR the US birth rate, which was at its lowest in 2002, is now increasing. So that's why i've been so busy at work. Also according to NPR, the teen birth rate in the US spiked in 2007. I wonder if it will increase exponentially after the whole " juno. Craze i heard two girls in a coffee shop in danville saying it was "like the best movie ever.". So i'm wondering why this is. not why juno's like the best movie, but why the birth rate's increasing. Subscribe to: Pos...
