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Natural Born Mama: MaryElise's Birth Story - Born at home 7-22-2008
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Parenting from the Heart and Praying for Grace. Monday, March 7, 2011. MaryElise's Birth Story - Born at home 7-22-2008. MaryElise Kathleen Noonan Born 7-22-08 into the arms of her Dada in her very own living room, under the watchful, peaceful presence of our midwife. I had been in contact with Jen a few times in the weeks leading up to. MaryElise's birth because I was having contractions and thought they might be heading. So, on a Friday afternoon, almost two weeks after my "due date", Jen visited the.
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Natural Born Mama: The Spiritual Worth of Giving Up
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Parenting from the Heart and Praying for Grace. Tuesday, March 8, 2011. The Spiritual Worth of Giving Up. Spring is one of those times. The time of Easter. The time of Renewal. And the Giving Up. It is not a coincidence that Easter occurs in the Spring. Even pre-Christian Easter myths speak of death and new life. Of growth and renewal. We clean our houses. (Some of us clean our digestive tracts! This explanation, while simple to understand, fails on a few levels. All one has to do is look around and see ...
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Natural Born Mama: Hey, you. You're a good mother.
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Parenting from the Heart and Praying for Grace. Sunday, April 17, 2011. Hey, you. You're a. Had I just been called out by a. My immediate reaction was to be horribly embarassed infused with an air of how-the-hell-am-I-supposed-to-take-that and sprinkled with Oh-no-she-didn't. (And in fairness, my Aunt is a nun, not a Saint, and coming from my Dad's family, there's most likely an extra sarcasm gene in there somewhere.). Then I got really,. Something like "Oh my God, is that what I. Thanks in no small part...
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The Itinerant Laborer: Inch by Inch, Row by Row...
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Journeys of a Labor and Delivery Nurse cum Monitrice cum Homebirth Midwife's Assistant. Monday, July 19, 2010. Inch by Inch, Row by Row. Having grown up in Baltimore, I remember thinking my mother was absolutely insane for enjoying gardening. I mean, really. Middle of June and already in the 90's at ten am and you're going to spend the morning on your hands and knees pulling up weeds? I spent most of my life believing I was not a gardener, but it turns out, I am. A midwife with whom I work says that she ...
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The Itinerant Laborer: Babies Behaving Badly
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Journeys of a Labor and Delivery Nurse cum Monitrice cum Homebirth Midwife's Assistant. Sunday, October 17, 2010. There are certain phrases that, every time you hear them, they make the hair on the back of your neck stand up on end. For some, it's "you're going to need a root canal procedure", for others it's "while we were changing your oil, we noticed a problem.". For me, it's "if your baby behaves". If your baby behaves, we'll let you go ahead and deliver vaginally. Your blood pressure drops from an e...
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The Itinerant Laborer: Thinkin' bout home-born baby birth stories
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Journeys of a Labor and Delivery Nurse cum Monitrice cum Homebirth Midwife's Assistant. Tuesday, July 13, 2010. Thinkin' bout home-born baby birth stories. Today, Ian will be playing at Seamus's house after a much-too-long time spent in different states. Kinda got me thinkin about Seamus being a home-born baby too. And, although I have never heard his mom's complete birth story, I have heard bits and pieces that equal enough to know a few things. Not because she was lucky. July 27, 2010 at 11:32 PM.
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The Itinerant Laborer: So, what's it gonna take...
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Journeys of a Labor and Delivery Nurse cum Monitrice cum Homebirth Midwife's Assistant. Monday, July 12, 2010. So, what's it gonna take. What's it gonna take to get me writing on this thing again, anyway? I think this morning's journey to new depths with regard to "Conversations about how scary and dangerous birth really is" among my esteemed colleagues is just the ticket/inspiration Ive been hoping to find. I am not employing hyperbole when I say that there was a general disdain for the very concept of ...
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Natural Born Mama: July 2010
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Parenting from the Heart and Praying for Grace. Thursday, July 29, 2010. Mary's Sand and Water Table. A few weeks ago, my Dad came up to Western NY to help me get some things done around the house. He brought this with him! This is the sand-and-water-play table I "commissioned" about a month before when I was in Pittsburgh visiting the family. Of course, he did like it. Who wouldn't want to make something for this little sweetpea? It sits just off the back porch near the garage. She loves it! Best of Blo...
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Natural Born Mama: April 2011
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Parenting from the Heart and Praying for Grace. Sunday, April 17, 2011. Hey, you. You're a. Had I just been called out by a. My immediate reaction was to be horribly embarassed infused with an air of how-the-hell-am-I-supposed-to-take-that and sprinkled with Oh-no-she-didn't. (And in fairness, my Aunt is a nun, not a Saint, and coming from my Dad's family, there's most likely an extra sarcasm gene in there somewhere.). Then I got really,. Something like "Oh my God, is that what I. Thanks in no small part...
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Natural Born Mama: May 2011
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Parenting from the Heart and Praying for Grace. Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Some of you may wonder why I seem to be so philosophical and emotional about the loss of a dog. After all, dogs are not people. They really can't love back the way people do. Their brains don't work that way, science tells us. They are all about the pack and they will forget the weak in a heartbeat in order to survive. So says Science. And then, there's Canucu. He was thin, weak, and sickly. He had no ...