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A Mom Is Born: September 2010
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A Mom Is Born is written by doula, a wife, and a mother. This blog is a lot like birth: a little political, a little personal, with a whole lot of work and passion. You can also follow A Mom is Born on Facebook. Tuesday, September 28, 2010. See What You Can Do? And you're not even in labor yet! But her due date is approaching, and the supportive OB is now saying "Hopefully we won't get to that date, so let's not worry about it now.". And then yesterday she had high blood pressure. She's a pregnant wo...
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A Mom Is Born: Send Me Your Birth Story!
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A Mom Is Born is written by doula, a wife, and a mother. This blog is a lot like birth: a little political, a little personal, with a whole lot of work and passion. You can also follow A Mom is Born on Facebook. Monday, August 1, 2011. Send Me Your Birth Story! Do you have a transformative birth story to share? Tell us your story of how YOU gave birth to your baby, not how your baby was delivered by the doc on-call. These stories should be real. Your story may include pain, but tell us about your...Radic...
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A Mom Is Born: January 2010
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A Mom Is Born is written by doula, a wife, and a mother. This blog is a lot like birth: a little political, a little personal, with a whole lot of work and passion. You can also follow A Mom is Born on Facebook. Tuesday, January 19, 2010. Why Choose a Midwife in Massachusetts? Friday, January 8, 2010. I've been thinking lately about a client, whose story goes something like this. She asked. She felt no contractions, or anything that she imagined contractions would feel like. Since her contractions were t...
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A Mom Is Born: October 2010
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A Mom Is Born is written by doula, a wife, and a mother. This blog is a lot like birth: a little political, a little personal, with a whole lot of work and passion. You can also follow A Mom is Born on Facebook. Tuesday, October 5, 2010. Recently, a friend (not a birth professional, because I do interact with a whole slew of people out there who have fairly normal jobs with predictable hours! Was discussing her work with me. Part of her work, she felt was "to empower people" as much as she could. My clie...
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A Mom Is Born: What's a Good Doula to Do?
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A Mom Is Born is written by doula, a wife, and a mother. This blog is a lot like birth: a little political, a little personal, with a whole lot of work and passion. You can also follow A Mom is Born on Facebook. Thursday, May 13, 2010. What's a Good Doula to Do? When the nurses brought scrubs for the husband to wear into the OR, they gave me a set, too. "She needs you in there," they said. She asked. "Put them on, because I think you should go in there.". I told her that the anesthesiologist had already ...
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A Mom Is Born: Happy Mother's Day! (Or What Goes Around, Comes Around)
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A Mom Is Born is written by doula, a wife, and a mother. This blog is a lot like birth: a little political, a little personal, with a whole lot of work and passion. You can also follow A Mom is Born on Facebook. Sunday, May 9, 2010. Or What Goes Around, Comes Around). Often I've heard people scoff at Mother's Day, calling it a "Hallmark" holiday, just another opportunity to increase sales. As much as my limited memory to know what it was like to have a mother. The one on the right was made by my oldest d...
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A Mom Is Born: See What You Can Do? (And you're not even in labor yet!!)
http://a-mom-is-born.blogspot.com/2010/09/see-what-you-can-do-and-youre-not-even.html
A Mom Is Born is written by doula, a wife, and a mother. This blog is a lot like birth: a little political, a little personal, with a whole lot of work and passion. You can also follow A Mom is Born on Facebook. Tuesday, September 28, 2010. See What You Can Do? And you're not even in labor yet! But her due date is approaching, and the supportive OB is now saying "Hopefully we won't get to that date, so let's not worry about it now.". And then yesterday she had high blood pressure. She's a pregnant wo...
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Issues | Annissa for Boston
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Boston is wonderful city with so much to offer: close-knit neighborhoods, top hospitals and schools, a vibrant arts community, and the roots of America’s democracy. But we also have serious and daunting challenges. Housing prices are growing but availability is shrinking. Young couples can’t afford to start their families here and middle class families can’t afford to stay. Our real estate taxes have skyrocketed, too. They covered 51% of the city’s budget in 2001, but will pay for 70% by 2017. I believe ...
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A Mom Is Born: February 2011
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A Mom Is Born is written by doula, a wife, and a mother. This blog is a lot like birth: a little political, a little personal, with a whole lot of work and passion. You can also follow A Mom is Born on Facebook. Friday, February 11, 2011. We all know the black and white, or red and blue, of politics. As we quarrel our polemics, so much rich grey gets lost in-between. Birth politics is no different. It silences all the propaganda, from both sides: "Why feel pain in an age of modern medicine? I have attend...
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Groups & Workshops - DIVYA KUMAR, ScM, CPD, CLC
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Connecting postpartum support and public health. DIVYA KUMAR, ScM, CPD, CLC. The Every Mother Project. I facilitate several new parents’ groups at Mama and Me. In Jamaica Plain. These groups are warm and welcoming and are a wonderful place for new parents to meet each other and connect. The groups I run are mother-centered and are loosely structured based on the interests of the group. New Parents’ Support Group. A drop-in group for all parents of babies 0-6 months. Second Time Moms’ Group. M Ed, Board C...
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