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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This is a follow-up to our brief chat last April. To refresh your memory, I'm a 40-year-old 1st-time mom with a history of 2 uterine surgeries to remove fibroids. Both incisions were fundal, one was quite shallow and one was deeper and more extensive entering the uterine wall but neither entered the uterine cavity. I had been with an OB/fertility group but with their plan to schedule a c-sec delivery (yuck) I changed to midwifery care with a CNM at Alta Bates in Berkeley at 28 weeks.
Thanks to encouragement & information from you, ICAN and many many others, Darling Baby Emma arrived August 7. Held by my husband and labor assistant I pushed her out without episiotomy or anesthesia after 20 hours of active labor! Emma was pink and hollering before her body was fully delivered. With help from our CNM I got to lift her out of me and onto my tummy. That moment was so precious it made all the months of planning and preparation for a vaginal delivery worthwhile. Thankfully, I had only minor skin tearing & slight bruising with no other complications. She took about 4 seconds to learn how to latch on to my breast to eat and has been doing great ever since. In our case, a c-sec turned out NOT to be necessary despite existing fundal incisions.
Please feel free to contact me should you want any more anecdotal information
about a "myomectomy mom" with a natural delivery as there doesn't seem
to be much research around about us.
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