Hello! I decided to start a blog because I can journal faster and my thoughts flow easier typed than hand written. So, I figured that I'd be more consistant in my entries than my paper journal.
A bit about me, I am a wife and mother of 5 kids, ages ranging from almost 9 years to 9 months. I am a childbirth educator, and I am a doula. I love to prepare whole traditional foods for my family - including raw milk products, soaked or sprouted grain and legume dishes, delicious sauces from scratch using homemade stocks, real butter and I use very little prepared or refined things. I am strongly anti-hydrogenated fats and anti-corn syrup. We are a homebirthing family, we use cloth diapers 2/3 of the time, I breastfeed my kids for an extended period of time, we don't circumcise our babies, and we selectively vaccinate. And I recycle. I am a cub scout leader, but am still very new at that.
I am a very active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. For more information, you can go to www.mormon.org.
I just started digital scrapbooking using Photoshop and really am loving it. I am quite protective of our identities, so I will not be posting much by way of actual names, dates, and photos, but may eventually post a page here and there. I wait with baited breath for when ikeagoddess posts her daily freebie list. Check it out at www.ikeagoddess.blogspot.com. I also have found www.fotoscrapluna.blogspot.com quite useful for my digital freebie fix. Oh, and I should mention that I lack some computer skill, so where some people have fancy blinkies and quick links like that, I don't know how to do those, so mine are the "old fashioned" way.
As for my blog name, Faith In Birth, that has great meaning for me. I began my journey into the world of birth pretty much the same as any other woman - I got pregnant. I began thinking about birth and thinking that I hate needles and would rather not have one in my back if I didn't need one - but my journey then took a turn for the better. I took a class in the Bradley Method and had my baby unmedicated in the hospital with an OB. It was a hard birth, but I knew I could do it, I knew my husband could help me, and I knew it would all be ok. I had faith in my body's design, in my Heavenly Father, and in myself in birth. I felt so empowered by my baby's birth, that I began teaching couples in the Bradley Method soon afterward. My first baby was 4 months old when I took the training. I chose to have my second baby in the same hospital with the same OB as my first - despite the fact that I had learned that homebirth was a safe and healthy option. I chose it because I didn't really think the hospital was "that bad." The birth was fine - but the nursery nurses were so rude, and the doctor was irresponsible in his comments and actions to me after the baby was born. I decided I would only use the hospital from then on out if there was a true medical need. I birthed my third baby at home with the watchful care of a very skilled midwife. The difference between the two is incomprehensible until you've been personally at a homebirth. They are just so different. I learned even more to trust the Lord, as I was free to really birth the way my body dictated - not according to someone else's idea of how birth works. My last two babies were born at home, in water. I will probably have at least one more baby, and waterbirth really is the way to go!
I have taught the Bradley Method for 8 years. I have been a doula off and on between my own births since 2002. About 3 years ago, I wanted to delve into another approach to unmedicated birth, and discovered HypnoBirthing. I observed a friend of mine teach her class and was impressed by numerous things. So, I got certified and began teaching that.
I recommend that couples who are planning a typcial birth in a hospital and especially with an OB would probably be best served by the Bradley Method, but for those couples who desire the best for their babies, out-of-hospital birthing using HypnoBirthing really is a beautiful way to welcome a tiny person into your family.
Well, there you go. My first entry. I anticipate this being a place for me to talk about birth, faith, families, and everything inbetween.
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