tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13365998.post2013884516129737700..comments2024-03-04T06:28:51.439-08:00Comments on My Little Golden Book of Phobias: beth coyotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04671290135595711572noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13365998.post-62613021198714749722016-08-23T23:53:14.951-07:002016-08-23T23:53:14.951-07:00Oh, what a beautiful post. That baby girl is so lu...Oh, what a beautiful post. That baby girl is so lucky to have soul-melded with you, Beth. As you are with her. Thank you for sharing this beautiful, beautiful story with us. Thank you for doing what you do.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13365998.post-64261650363421221382016-08-22T13:28:38.828-07:002016-08-22T13:28:38.828-07:00I am so moved by this, so humbled. Your loving acc...I am so moved by this, so humbled. Your loving acceptance of that baby's soul choice is perhaps the most profound holiness I have ever been privy to. You are a transcendent being yourself, and how lucky are the women whose children come into this world in your presence. Thank you. I don't know why it feels as if I need to say that, but thank you.37paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400464105403622384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13365998.post-72981577220481998242016-08-22T03:43:06.946-07:002016-08-22T03:43:06.946-07:00What profound work you do. Heart and Hands. It'...What profound work you do. Heart and Hands. It's been a long time since I heard that title. Elizabeth Davis was my midwife, but she missed the birth – I delivered my daughter by myself. One never knows.Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06318174928862120631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13365998.post-37109817227320416022016-08-22T01:10:55.263-07:002016-08-22T01:10:55.263-07:00Same here, shedding a few tears remembering my ear...Same here, shedding a few tears remembering my early onset labour reading Spriritual Midwifery and Jeannine Parvati's book, looking for clues on premature home birth. <br />After 33 hrs I held a tiny 900 g baby girl on my arms who struggled with her first breath. The midwife did everything from making tea, to wrapping me in blankets and unwrapping me and washing me in our messy bathroom and holding my hands to saving my daughter's life. She was in her early 70s, her husband a farmer. She brought a pint of rich Jersey milk for the weeks my tiny baby was in hospital, so my milk would be exceptionally strong. She did a lot more I only found out later like visiting my baby on the ward during the night when no visitors were allowed.<br />Beth, your work is the closest we can come to understand what life is. Right at the start. In the weekend paper I just read about the increasing numbers of cesareans and how women are seemingly viewing pregnancy as "projects" requiring perfect planning and safety and it makes me so angry.<br /><br /><br />Sabinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09015827501648296977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13365998.post-68574643747188469892016-08-21T18:08:55.476-07:002016-08-21T18:08:55.476-07:00Oh sweet Jesus you have me crying.
For us, it was...Oh sweet Jesus you have me crying. <br />For us, it was a copy of Hey Beatnik! This Is The Farmbook! and then Spiritual Midwifery and a British midwifery text that was so old it gave instructions about giving a baby last rights if the priest couldn't get there on time. <br />I left the field in my own way. I went to nursing school and had more babies and worked at the local birth center with licensed midwives who did not especially like me because I was too vocal in my own observances about how a birth was going. <br />But. I had a ten pound, 2 ounce baby at home who had shoulder dystocia and came out floppy and not breathing and blue and purple until the midwife (a friend I had worked with at illegal home births years ago and who wasn't really delivering babies by then but helped me because...) breathed into her and told us to touch her and call her by name and tell her we loved her and we did and that was Lily and she's had two home births and Jessie had August at home and it's all worked out and woman- I love you. <br />It's sacred work. You were called to it. You still are being called. <br />I believe that. <br />So much love. <br />MMs. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.com