2011 - Talk Birth

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Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of the CD for review purposes.
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2. http://www.hesperian.org/
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4. http://www.hesperian.org/
5. http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php#midwives
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Celebrating 100,000 Hits! Mother Rising Book Giveaway (2011-05-19 09:09)
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Giveaway is now closed. Shawna was the winner!
Talk Birth has reached 100,000 hits and I’m having a giveaway to celebrate this milestone! When I initially
began this website in 2007, it was exclusively for the purpose of providing information about my birth
classes to the local community. I never intended for anyone other than local, potential clients to read the
information here, I was just using Wordpress as a platform to host what I assumed would be a fairly static
site—possibly just being updated with new class information and dates. Then, I decided I’d like to add
a couple of posts/articles for my prospective clients to read. Before I knew it, the few posts I had made
were receiving hits from locations other than my local area and so I started writing posts with a wider/more
general audience in mind. Eventually, the class information portion of my site became very secondary to the
birth-blog portion of my site. And, I find it somewhat amusing, that now I primarily reach women through
my writing rather than through my classes. I have a new class beginning in June, but otherwise, I have been
on leave from teaching any classes since my new baby was born and due to my other commitments, I have
only had limited availability for classes for the past year or so.
When I first began my journey as a childbirth educator, some part of me envisioned reaching hundreds
of couples through my classes. I quickly realized that I wasn’t going to be able to fill group classes in my
small hometown and felt like I had an excess of birth-change energy that was being blocked/frustrated by
only working with one couple every so often. I used to complain to my husband, ”I just want to transform
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