What is midwifery care? The debut video for I am a Midwife, a new online series about midwives and what they do, explores just that! Eight different “real life” midwives describe the safe, satisfying and supportive care midwives in all settings provide women and their families!
From the Midwives Alliance of North America:
(Source: youtube.com)
Birth Is A Feminist Issue
“From a feminist perspective, it’s all about taking the power back. We are powerful and smart and amazing enough to make these choices for ourselves. We can rely on the help and expertise of doctors, midwives, and doulas to walk with us through our journeys in birth — but it’s essential that we’re put at the forefront of the decision making process. The power of birth is systematically being taken away from us by a culture that believes that our bodies and minds are fundamentally flawed to the point where birth is no longer a natural process, but rather a medical one —and that absolutely makes birth a feminist issue. Our babies and ourselves deserve so much better.”
Yoga Yoga Yoga
9:15 Vinyasa
10:30 Prenatal
4:30 Subbing for Lillian
Namaste and Happy Mother’s Day!
Beautiful slideshow of midwives around the world.
Happy Mother’s Day!
What To Reject When You're Expecting
I feel like most of these are fairly obvious, but check out 5-8 in particular
From birth we’re taught that we’re owed a beautiful girl. We all think of ourselves as the hero of our own story, and we all (whether we admit it or not) think we’re heroes for just getting through our day.
So it’s very frustrating, and I mean frustrating to the point of violence, when we don’t get what we’re owed. A contract has been broken. These women, by exercising their own choices, are denying it to us. It’s why every Nice Guy is shocked to find that buying gifts for a girl and doing her favors won’t win him sex. It’s why we go to “slut” and “whore” as our default insults — we’re not mad that women enjoy sex. We’re mad that women are distributing to other people the sex that they owed us.
Yes, the women in these stories are being portrayed as wonderful and beautiful and perfect. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.
David Wong, 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women (via chirart)
Since it relates to the previous post…
(Source: cracked.com)
Community Class & Potluck
Join us for an evening of yoga, food and community! Come for class and stay afterwards to eat, drink and hang out. Our friends at green well Organic Tea & Coffee will be sharing their delicious juices.
6 pm Class
7:15 pm Potluck
$5 when you bring a dish
$10 drop-in w/o a dish
Any additional donations are welcome! All proceeds will go to Life Haven, a local homeless shelter for women and families.
