Natural Childbirth Exercies - Review

 

Natural Childbirth Exercises

If we want any performance or undertaking to turn out the way we envision, training and study are a must—even with natural childbirth. 

The good news is: the more we study and train, the more we can release concerns, look forward with joy, and entrust the outcome to the Divine!

With that in mind, check out this fantastic book by Rhondda Hartman, mother to 5, grandmother to 9, & trainer to 14,000+ pregnant women…

FREE LOVE: Every Ideas for Joyful Living

 

Release Date: September 21, 2012

In my book, New Mother, I discuss how profit-driven institutions have eliminated all that was natural, loving and sacred in pregnancy and childbirth--and what we can do to reclaim the magic in motherhood. 

In FREE LOVE, we pick up where New Mother left off. The same institutions have invaded our kitchen, family life, and communities.  We've allowed it--but once again--at any income level, with any amount of free time, and starting right now, we can reclaim the magic in our homes and communities.  
 

Available Sept 21, 2012

FREE LOVE: RATED G!

We Can Have Exactly What We REALLY Want—Right Now

In 1993, Allie Chee—planning to move to Calcutta—had a one-hour phone call with Mother Teresa that set her off on a different journey—one that led to dozens of countries, great adventure, and unexpected lessons on free love.  In communities around the globe—rich and poor, peaceful and war-torn—she learned that we don't need more time, we don't need more money, we don't need special skills, and we don't need to give up anything we enjoy or desire. We can experience more fun, more joy, more LOVE—we can get our groove back right now—with the simplest of activities in our kitchen, at home, and in our communities.  

The everyday ideas for joyful living that Allie shares in FREE LOVE are waiting for you. So what are you waiting for?

Get your groove on and start spreading the love!

 
                         ALLIE CHEE has studied Asian martial and healing arts since 1989, earning a 2nd degree black belt and certification in TCM nutrition; she is a 42-year old home birth mom; and author of NEW MOTHER: Using a Doula, Midwife, Postpartum Doula, Maid, Cook, or Nanny to Support Healing, Bonding and Growth; and FREE LOVE: Everyday Ideas for Joyful Living.

                          Her articles have appeared in The Well Being Journal, The Holistic Networker, The Birthing Site, and MidwiferyToday.  

                         Website: www.alliechee.com  Facebook: www.facebook.com/AllieChee 

WHERE SHOULD MY BABY SLEEP?

WHERE SHOULD MY BABY SLEEP?

Co-sleeping, nursing, and weaning à la Good Nights

New parents have a lot of questions. Some of the most basic are the most controversial:

• For how many months (or years) should I nurse my baby?
• When should I wean my baby and how?
• Where should my baby sleep?

Response to: Maternity Leave? It's More Like A Pause, NY Times article

Not a single mother interviewed in this article from the New York Times: Maternity Leave? It's More Like a Pause" was from the "natural birth" or "sitting moon" (40-day postpartum healing and bonding time) end of the spectrum.

They interviewed only women who took just a few days or weeks off and continued working.  And loved it. This is exactly the kind of social influence from leaders, Hollywood, and commercial interests that I discuss in my book, New Mother.

The message in the article is loud and clear: American women, forget about taking care of yourselves and bonding with your children.  Work trumps all.

We give birth, if we're blessed, perhaps only once in our lives.  Our babies are only babies for one year. And ever-increasingly, our society refers to this sacred event and magical time as something to be tended to briefly, and gotten over with as painlessly as possible, in exchange for further financial gain and ladder-climbing.

Quoted in the article is Jane M. Swift, who was a month into her term as acting governor of

When people ask new moms...

How Can You Stand Staying At Home?

I’m often asked that question.  It implies that staying home, raising our children, is less desirable, fun or respectable than working in an office.

Personally, I can’t imagine any joy greater than staying home with my baby, cooking for her and my family all day, and being her best friend and teacher.  That’s not what we’re all called to do, nor what we’d want at every phase of life. Maybe that’s why some women feel it’s less desirable than working in an office.

To be fair, I understand what is driving the question...

BOOK REVIEW: Is Your Hair Made of Donuts? by Joy Feldman

UPDATE 2/18/13:  Joy Feldman is doing a statewide tour in R.I., reading in over 200 schools and libraries. City mayors, local celebrities and the governor are participating and will be doing readings in an act of solidarity for children's health.  More info on Facebook and in the Rhode Island Monthly

Best wishes to you, Joy, and to all those lives you will touch with your goodness!


As published in The HolisticNetworker: http://www.HolisticNetworker.com/5063/childrens-nutrition-is-your-hair-made-of-donuts/

Joy Feldman, author

Whether the subject is religion, education, politics, or even eating -- when you swim against the current, you’d better be strong, confident, and resilient.  Parents who work to feed their children nutritious foods know this well.

The Sea Change

Around the world and throughout time, the choice of what to eat has been made by adults combining the foods harvested in the region, along with an understanding of what food combinations best served the health needs of the people in that area and created pleasant tastes.  Children were not consulted in this matter, as of course, they would not yet know what is best for their bodies.  Rather, they were given to eat what the adults ate—the adults knowing what was best and taking the time to prepare it.