The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
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I just had my mind expanded this morning by Laureen Hudson's hour long online session on how to use the internet to get a message out. Laureen's session “Creating an Online Presence," gave me a wealth of information in a short time and impressed me with how many people are out there who completely rely on the internet for their information. I needed that, and maybe you do, too. - Ina May Gaskin I just hung up the phone from doing the hour long session with
Laureen Hudson on “Creating an Online Presence”. Laureen’s know-how
and expertise were enough to wake up even the birth oldtimers like me and
Ina May to the many unused opportunities of the internet. Laureen’s
engaging and easygoing teaching style made even those scary (to me) terms
like “hypertext, streaming, wordpress, technorati, feedreader and trackback”
start to make sense. Her passion is to reach the generation of young
women who have not yet given birth BEFORE they fall into the black hole
of aggressive obstetrics. I came away from the class today with lots
of ways to improve my website and make it more modern, usable and interesting
for readers. This class will run again this coming Friday (August
22) and I heartily recommend it.
Cost: $35 per session Each session will be 60 minutes in length Creating An Online Presence
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Here in Northern California, we have a local School of Hypnotherapy. Doesn't every town?
I took a twelve-week course (three hours one night/week) taught by Josie Hadley, who is co-author of the book, Hypnosis for Change, which I think is carried by Cascade.
That taught me basic principles of hypnotherapy, but not much specific to childbirth.
Then I got the two books by Carl Jones, Mind over Labor, and Creative Visualizations for an Easier Childbirth (or something close to that), also carried by Cascade. These contain lots of specific suggestions/affirmations and imagery that is useful. I think Cascade also carries Creative Childbirth by Michelle LeClaire O'Neill about the LeClaire Method. She sells audiotapes and booklets and workbooks and things. This is probably the most complete set commercially available. There are a few other resources - most places that sell lots of different self-hypnosis tapes will sell one or two related to childbirth.
Then I put it all together. I still customize every script if the woman has any issues that are different from the norm. And I haven't really done it that many times - not more than 50 times.
Some women say it really helps. Even if it doesn't help with the specific
complaint, most women say it at least helps them to fall asleep at night.
(I make my tapes so they tell the woman when to turn off the tape machine
if they want to fall asleep.)
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