2011 - Talk Birth

We did it! | Footprints on My Heart (2011-02-19 15:05:11)
[...] 19 at 11:15 a.m., whole and healthy, pink and precious. I have a short version of her birth story here. As I emailed
to a friend who is currently in the middle of her own PAL journey, after the baby was [...]
Alaina’s Complete Birth Story « Talk Birth (2011-06-01 16:16:03)
[...] Alaina Diana Remer January 19, 2011 11:15 a.m. 7lbs, 8oz; 20 inches. Short version of her story is here and labor
pictures are [...]
Birth Quotes of the Week (2011-01-29 15:59)
”I believe that natural childbirth is a right and a privilege...Our country needs to step up to the plate in
educating women about the benefits of natural birth, and we need to help women actually do it – not just
hear about it.” –Mayim Bialik (via [1]ToLabor Doulas Dallas)
”In the moments of labor and birth, all the forces of the universe are flowing through a woman’s body.” -
Sister MorningStar ([2]The Power of Women)
”These hands are big enough to save the world, and small enough to rock a child to sleep.” –Zelda Brown
”Birth is as vast and voluminous, as unfathomable and inevitable as the rising and setting of the sun. And
true to the inexorable power and rhythm of their life-giving bodies, women will continue to birth with dignity,
grace and courage.” –[3]Mandala Mom
“In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle,
the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.” –Anne Morrow Lindbergh
‎”I feel the most important thing the birthing woman does is to listen to her own body and find out what
her body is telling her she needs to do. And that neither the partner, nor the midwife, nor the doula, or
whomever, should be giving orders, ’Now do this’ or ’Now do that’ because that interferes with what she is
really trying to get from her body...” Marsden Wagner, M.D. (via [4]Birth Without Fear)
‎”All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking
excellence.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. (via [5]Literary Mama)
“A baby, a baby, she will come to remind us of the sweetness in this world, what ripe, fragile, sturdy beauty
exists when you allow yourself the air, the sunshine, the reverence for what nature provides...” – Sarah
Werthan Buttenwieser (in Literary Mama)
1. http://www.facebook.com/tolabordallas
2. http://talkbirth.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/book-review-the-power-of-women/
3. http://mandalamom.blogspot.com/2011/01/of-birds-and-bullies.html
4. http://www.facebook.com/birthwithoutfear
5. http://www.facebook.com/litmama
Birth Art: Final Chapter (2011-01-31 17:01)
As I have noted before, this was my most art-making pregnancy. Rather than make birth art just because I
like it (I do!), during my most recent pregnancy I used it as a way to work on—or through—various things.
I wrote more about this in [1]this post. So, now that my pregnancy has been completed with the powerful
birth of my [2]magical tiny daughter, I felt an intense urge to make two final pieces of birth art (that are
directly related to my own current experiences, rather than just birth art for birth art’s sake!). Since I
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