tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post4194716035731574170..comments2024-03-28T23:06:10.904-04:00Comments on Bless Our Hearts: Birth StoryMs. Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-56579980908505347622013-05-29T12:12:59.561-04:002013-05-29T12:12:59.561-04:00Invisigal- I saw that just the other day. Pretty s...Invisigal- I saw that just the other day. Pretty swell, huh? Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-53508426717498492772013-05-29T11:57:43.898-04:002013-05-29T11:57:43.898-04:00I thought I had sent you this link, not sure if yo...I thought I had sent you this link, not sure if you had seen it.<br /><br />http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50146659n<br /><br />-invisigalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-11697305079636811012013-05-29T08:46:23.093-04:002013-05-29T08:46:23.093-04:00Kristin- Yep. My giant baby Lily had her hand up t...Kristin- Yep. My giant baby Lily had her hand up there too. This added to the problem. But, we safely managed. <br /><br />Steve Reed- The Farm and the Gaskins are quite an amazing story, really.<br /><br />Syd- Yes. Ms. Gaskin does speak a lot about that very thing and she is of the opinion that a woman is not a lemon and that most women are of a size to deliver babies of most sizes. I have known several quite small women who safely delivered babies who weighed over ten pounds. My grandmother was TINY and had a baby over eleven pounds! Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-26952948130374704052013-05-29T07:11:55.484-04:002013-05-29T07:11:55.484-04:00I was born by C-section. I don't think my mot...I was born by C-section. I don't think my mother would have entertained anything like a home birth. In fact, she thought those who did home births were crude. <br /><br />I wonder if Mrs. Gaskin talks about the anatomical frames of women who can deliver naturally. There were two ladies who worked for me who wanted to do natural childbirth but couldn't pass the baby because they were too small and the baby too large. <br /><br />It all seems pretty intense to me. Sydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05642843245634635843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-82684688896366492052013-05-29T07:00:10.557-04:002013-05-29T07:00:10.557-04:00Interesting! I will check out this film. I've ...Interesting! I will check out this film. I've heard of Ina Mae Gaskin but I know next to nothing about her or The Farm, so this would be a good eye-opener for me.Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-43009102386811325362013-05-28T23:44:31.904-04:002013-05-28T23:44:31.904-04:00I think my copy of Spiritual Midwifery is still ar...I think my copy of Spiritual Midwifery is still around here, unless I gave it to one of my daughters. My 3rd daughter had her arm over her head and didn't get herself born until I kneeled. I'm going to look for the movie.Kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06413795611563683135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-70745113398514509272013-05-28T18:21:06.562-04:002013-05-28T18:21:06.562-04:00Angella- I think you would love it.
Beth Coyote-...Angella- I think you would love it. <br /><br />Beth Coyote- I've got my original copy but it is not signed. I've met her a few times. Very casually. She is a rock star to me. <br /><br />Elizabeth- I bet you're right. I bet some doctor tried to make you believe that your body was somehow not up to the task in this specific case. I've seen it happen so many times. And I think that women in this situation are robbed. <br /><br />e- It is a life-altering thing. <br /><br />Magnum- Where'd you see the interview, Baby Daddy?<br /><br />Sabine- Wow! Thank you for the sweet story! I love the idea of Ina May being there the day you found out you were pregnant. What a memory for you!Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-69266387376423058962013-05-28T15:50:13.671-04:002013-05-28T15:50:13.671-04:00I have been thinking of paying for the download an...I have been thinking of paying for the download and now I will. I met Ina May in 1982, on the day I found out that I was pregnant, she was giving a talk in Dublin and I got the chance to meet her afterwards as our hippie GP wanted a word and we tagged along. She was full of congratulations, very encouraging, told me to drink raspberry leaf tea and then we all had some baby cham (orange juice and fizzy cider) which she told me would be ok for once. Ha!<br />There was a fledgling offspring of the Farm in Ireland for a while, a group of people came from the US to settle in a beautiful, half ruined manor house with a large walled-in garden in Clonakilty in the south of Ireland but I think their ideas and concepts, esp. the gardening did not survive the Irish rains and local country mentality. Or maybe they just went broke. We still - and forever will - have a large wicker laundry hamper made by a lovely guy living there in exchange for a weekend of weeding and building a plastic green house. Sabinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09015827501648296977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-91108586371358210402013-05-28T14:48:40.913-04:002013-05-28T14:48:40.913-04:00I don't know nothin bout birthin babies...
but...I don't know nothin bout birthin babies...<br />but I did see the interview with the two who made this film-quite interesting in itself, so I imagine the film is pretty good.Magnumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04782896110475130579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-23292021874901137362013-05-28T14:06:10.952-04:002013-05-28T14:06:10.952-04:00This was a moving post...I thought of my mother an...This was a moving post...I thought of my mother and the details she related to me about my own hospital birth and how she was knocked out, presumably with medication...<br /><br />I really wish both of us could have experienced what you describe from the movie and book.ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11376645220662546020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-24093052542322103212013-05-28T12:31:58.253-04:002013-05-28T12:31:58.253-04:00I love your movie review -- and your review of wha...I love your movie review -- and your review of what it means to birth naturally. I, unfortunately, never got to experience that but know in my bones that it had things been differently "managed," I might have. I keep hearing more stories of women who are doing this at home, and I am encouraged by that -- that there will always be women who seek that, who are proponents of it.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-65776721843203212762013-05-28T12:19:35.616-04:002013-05-28T12:19:35.616-04:00Well, amen. I met Ina May in 1978 at a conference ...Well, amen. I met Ina May in 1978 at a conference and she was selling Spiritual Midwifery so I bought a copy and autographed it. She was here in Seattle in 2011 and she re-signed my book-'We're still at it!".<br /><br />She truly inspired us all to keep going, to believe what we knew to be true, that babies come out, in their own way, in their own time and we could take back our births because it was important. And it still is. <br /><br />XXXX Bethbeth coyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04671290135595711572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-920514011780596792013-05-28T11:40:32.877-04:002013-05-28T11:40:32.877-04:00This is so very moving. I will have to watch the f...This is so very moving. I will have to watch the film. Thank you. 37paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400464105403622384noreply@blogger.com