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A L A S K A ! ! !
Snowflake the Moose We made a huge move from North Carolina to Alaska and let me just say this, we LOVE it! No longer do I feel like I stick out like a sore thumb because of the things I believe about...
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Promotion of Businesses
I came up with the idea today, while in the shower (this is where most of my thinking takes place, or at least the formulation of plans – sometimes that get carried out, sometimes that don’t), to take...
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Why the Name Change?
My Gentle Birthing was an excellent journey in my life where I educated, supported, and helped families prepare for their births through childbirth education classes and my work as a doula. This...
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A Sad Day for Home Birth and Human Rights
My heart cries as I write this. Today, in North Carolina, (which is a state where only Certified Nurse Midwives (CNMs) are legally allowed to attend home births) the right for some CNMs to attend home...
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Sad Day for Midwifery in NC… Video
This video was just posted on ABC11 News website not long ago. There is conflicting information, and I do know that many people, including CNM Donna Galati and her awesome team of home birthing...
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The Truth?
Yesterday, as excited as I was to know that a news crew had gone to my former midwife’s practice, Monarch Midwifery, in Fayetteville, NC to do a story, I knew it would somehow be skewed. And maybe...
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Holy Baby Preparation Batman!
I’m not sure how it was for you when you were pregnant for the second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc) time, but this pregnancy is so completely different from Sydney’s. Both started out much the same,...
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Convenience in Parenting
If I mention Attachment Parenting, it conjures many images, doesn’t it? It also brings up some stigma, some judgment, and some distaste for some. But many others who practice this method of...
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Second Baby – Who Knew, Right?!?
I will begin at a place that seems ever appropriate, the beginning. This is a story that I rarely tell the complete version of, and one I’ve never told online. Wait, what are you thinking I’m going to...
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My Birth Story
Jeremy, Sydney, and I went to Anchorage to pick up Papa and Nenaw (my parents) on August 11, 2012, which was our estimated due date for Baby August. We joked that it would be really awesome if we went...
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