**EDIT** Original post in 2012 Certainty. Why do we seek it? Is it possible to have any sense of certainty going into labor and birth? ...

**EDIT** Original post 2012 (pictures not included) January. What a whirlwind. 3 births plus the weeklong Birthing From Within retreat. ...

**EDIT** Original post in 2012 I've gotta say, 2011 was pretty rockin' for me so it's not like I'm in a rush for anything new. Yet life...

**EDIT** Original post in 2011 "The Winter Solstice, here in the Northern Hemisphere, occurs tonight. Solstice, coming during the coldest...

**EDIT** Original post in 2011 "The accurate definition of cephalopelvic disproportion (CPD) is when a baby's head or body is too large...

I love being on-call. Really, I do. I love when my doula clients enter into their "birth window" and I anticipate right along with them...

**EDIT** Original post in 2011 I never dreamed that in one week I'd be asking the same difficult questions surrounding the birth of a...

Sometimes labor is faster than what "the books" say, sometimes it's slower than our expectations have prepared us for. We've all read:...

When my family moved to SWFL 2 years ago, I naively assumed that the birth culture would be as amazing and supportive as the one I had...

Birth. It's magical, feared, sacred, mysterious, beautiful. Anticipated, induced, overdue, early, full-term, premature. Relaxing,...