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This is a quate I came across on Instagram by @charlottedoula :"it must be a privileg to disqualify doulas from being able to support birthing bodies, by incorperating PAID vendor systems involving Doulas in Charlotte, North Carolina to pay in order to be listed as a doula for families to choose from. Novant Health is creating a statistical bias that their hospital approved vendor doulas are more qualified, when in actuality they are reaping the benefit of being paid to advertise. If this doesn't define systematic, I don't know what does."
Today I will be speaking with doulas from Charlotte. Kira, Emily Knight about this and the idea that doulas can work for a system and work for their clients.
From Womb to World, the journey that shapes our life” Everything that happened before we took your very first breath, plays a part in shaping the present, and is the starting-point in creating our future. Participants will learn how conception, prenatal and birth experiences create lasting effects in all areas of our life, emotionally, physically, psychologically and relationally. By being able to identify these effects in their personal and professional lives doulas can play a major role in their clients' birth experiences and how babies are welcomed in to world consciously.
Guest Description:Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD, IBCLC, FAPAKathleen Kendall-Tackett is a health psychologist, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and the Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Praeclarus Press, a small press specializing in women's health. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Psychological Trauma and was Founding Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Lactation, a position she held for 11 years. She is Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Health and Trauma Psychology, Past President of the APA Division of Trauma Psychology, and a member of APA’s Publications and Communications Board, a committee that oversees all APA journals.Dr. Kendall-Tackett specializes in women's-health research including breastfeeding, depression, trauma, and health psychology, and has won many awards for her work including the 2019 President’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association’s Division of Trauma Psychology.Dr. Kendall-Tackett has authored more than 470 articles or chapters and is author or editor of 39 books. Her most recent books include Depression in New Mothers, 3rd Edition (2017, Routledge UK), Women’s Mental Health Across the Lifespan (2017, Routledge US, with Lesia Ruglass), The Phantom of the Opera: A Social History of the World’s Most Popular Musical (2018, Praeclarus). She is editor of the Clinical Lactation Monograph series, which has 11 volumes including Breast and Nipple Pain, Milk Supply, and Tongue-Tie (Praeclarus).
My guest today:
Jatesha “Jaye” Madden-Wilson is a Mom, Serial Entrepreneur, Social Impact Speaker and Activist, Maternal Health Advocate and Self-sufficiency Coach. Her connection to maternal health advocacy began with her journey from
womanhood to motherhood.
Through her own personal transitions from marriage to divorce, she redefined
single motherhood by creating a community of support that changed the narrative of motherhood, sisterhood and womanhood with her women-empowerment organization, Melinated Moms. S he developed Melinated Moms to be the advocacy voice of women across the Melinated Spectrum. In the last three years, she has reached over 1,000 women worldwide and has created a reputation that is trusted for its authenticity in support and encouragement. She uses her experience in her professional career as a Community Health Nurse of 15+ years to amplify health and wellness of moms and women to lobby on the state and federal level. Jaye has created big strides in advocacy for women of color most notably with the First Lady and Governor of New Jersey as a public speaker for Nurture NJ with the Black Maternal Health crisis. She is proud to serve on the Preeclampsia Foundation as a Patient Advisory Council member as well as serve as a Community Pillar Leader. She is also an active member of their subsidiary workgroup with the Racial Disparities Task Force. In these positions she saw the importance of how community advocacy and engagement created better physical, emotional and mental health outcomes for its people. Jaye is the proud mother of 2 young girls, Nadiyah and Ava, who continue to move and motivate her to create a space where women's rights are acknowledged and not silenced.
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Jessie Spivey is our guet today and we will be discussing lots of doula topics! and finding our crew, our people to help us on the journey of sitting at the feet of birth.
More on Jessie from Jessie: I was born and raised in Sacramento, Ca. My mother is a Birthworker and inspired me to become a Doula. The vision behind the creation of The Doudad started with my desire to contribute to the decrease in the mortality rates of POC women and children. I want to make sure no one ever feels like an actual doodad…a “thing or unspecified gadget, device or part often used to describe something whose name one cannot recall”, during birth or the birthing process. In September 2020, I started an online web series for Black Breastfeeding week called “The Hot Chocolate Chronicles” that led into a spin-off called “Spilled Milk” which I host bi-weekly on IGTV. My current focus and studies are around Birth Doula work, I am working towards offering Childbirth Education, Herbalisim, Postpartum and Death Doula care to my practice as well. I enjoy music and art, cooking with my partner, Yoga and I love the beach.
Nici Shipway CD(DONA), is a mother of two, a certified birth doula and an experienced Surrogate. Nici has worked as a program director and CCO at two other Surrogacy agencies in Canada and in June 2020 opened her own Surrogacy agency named Hive Surrogacy. She has spoken at international Surrogacy conferences as well as planned and executed events around the world for both Intended Parents and Surrogates. These experiences along with supporting hundreds of people through the Surrogacy process have given Nici the opportunity to see how to support these journeys in the birthing room as well and have had the pleasure of supporting many Surrogacy births. Surrogacy, parenting and birth are some of her greatest passions and she is feeling very positive about the opportunity of finally blending all her passions into her lives work.
Sophie Messager has a PhD in physiology of reproduction and is a doula, perinatal educator and healer based in Cambridge, UK.
Sophie left her native France in 1997 to pursue postdoctoral studies as a biology research scientist, in Aberdeen, Scotland, where she met her Hong Kong-born husband, Chi. They moved to Cambridge in 2001, had two children and Sophie retrained to be a doula, antenatal teacher and babywearing instructor.
Sophie is a birth geek and knowledge junkie but has a more spiritual side too, so she also trained as a Reiki and Reiki Drum practitioner and teacher. Training and personal practice have led her to master a wide range of labour and postnatal comfort measures and skills, such as massage, rebozo, birth and postnatal healing rituals.
Sophie teaches these skills to parents and birthworkers, individually, in workshops and online. Her work is a blend of traditional and scientific knowledge, and she also blogs on her website.Visit Sophie's website at www.sophiemessager.com to read her blog and to sign up to her free newsletter. Follow her on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Sophie-Messager-335039466594357/ and on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sophie_messager/
Alicia Fishbein is a wife, mom of 3 and birth and postpartum doula in the SF Bay Area. She and her team of birth doulas work with expectant parents who want to step off the assembly line of birth and step into their power. They give parents the tools they need to have a positive, powerful, natural birth while sprinkling in a little fun and a lot of love.
Her team also works with new families who need help in the first weeks after baby’s birth. They take care of mom, dad, baby and home---turning chaos into calm.
https://www.borndoulas.com/
Alicia & Meredith, birth doulas and besties, have created a brand new program, Be Your Own Damn Doula, as a response to Covid-19. They believe that this time calls for every couple to learn how to doula themselves. So, they’ve taken everything they’ve learned from supporting hundreds of births, and distilled it into a super simple essential guide. They’ll show you how to be your own damn doula, and give birth confidently, comfortably, and safely. https://www.borndoulas.com/be-your-own-damn-doula
Don't miss out! join Summer Forrest and I LIVE!
Serial Entrepreneur, Speaker, Storyteller and creator of The Anti-Supermom ~ Summer Forrest is in the business of transforming lives. She’s impacted the lives of thousands by sharing authentic, relatable stories around the topics of mindful business, financial and estate soundness, self-love, overcoming obstacles, manifestation, visualization, domestic violence, motherhood, and more... Summer is a force to be reckoned with, her energy is infectious, and if you get a chance to dial in, she might just change your life too.
Breastfeeding is not as simple as some folks think. It's not just about having a breast and a baby. There is a lot to know before starting on this journey. Join me and Ashley Pickett IBCLC as we discuss what you need to know that will help you form decisions and support you in your endeavor.
About Ashley, she assists parents in finding ways to meet a baby`s authentic sleep, feeding and parenting needs while still finding ways for the grown-ups to feel rested, find gratitude in the journey and to avoid feelings of overwhelm.Her main gig is working as an IBCLC (lactation consultant), which started in 2008 after her own breastfeeding journey with three kids. She had many challenges, and it was only the help she found at the Newman Clinic in Toronto that helped her nurse for many years! When her youngest was just 4 months old, she became a student at the International Breastfeeding Center, and is privileged to have more than 10 years of direct mentorship with Dr Jack Newman. She now works at the world renown Breastfeeding Clinic, the International Breastfeeding Center (IBC) in Toronto.
We are excited to be back on the air after a long break!
Join Ruby Powers and I as we discuss being a parent in politics and how you too can make a difference.
Ruby Powers is running for State Representative to make sure everyone in District 134 has a voice in the Texas state house. Here is more about her in her words:
About Ruby Powers
I’ve spent my life serving my community, and I’m ready to take my experience to the Texas statehouse as your representative in Austin.
I grew up in San Antonio, and spent my childhood on both sides of the border. My mother’s family was still in Mexico, and we’d go there regularly to see our grandparents. I never had health insurance as a child, so we would also go to see a doctor when we needed to get stitched up.
Growing up, I always knew I’d have to create opportunity for myself. I put myself through college at UT, where I met my husband, Burak. After we got married, I decided to go to law school, where I specialized in immigration. As the daughter and wife of immigrants, I knew that I wanted to focus my career on helping people create opportunity for themselves.
I opened my law firm, Powers Law Group, and started my family with Burak in House District 134. We’ve lived here for over a decade now, and we love our community. I would be honored to represent my neighbors in the Texas state house, and I hope to earn your vote.
How To Stop Beating Yourself Up In Your Parenting
*Why Mamas Have A Hard Time Giving Up Guilt
*The Shadow Side Of Conscious Parenting
*How Feeling Like A “Good” Mom Can Lead To Acting Like A “Bad” Mom
*Why Controlling Behavior Is a Bad Idea
*How Emotional Baggage From Childhood Keeps Moms From Staying Present With Their Child
Leslie Potter is the founder of Pure Joy Parenting, a joy based parenting model based on her experience raising her daughter as a single mom as well as working with families. She supports parents in moving from a traditional fear-based model to a joy-based one focusing on relationship and healthy attachment. She is a co-author of Chaos to Connection: 9 Heart Centered Essentials for Parenting your Teen. Leslie is a Parent Coach with a background as a body centered therapist. She has unschooled her daughter as well as supported her going back to school on her own terms as a homeshooler. Her greatest love is hanging with other parents who are determined to challenge their conditioning and open to the wonder of parenting on their own terms.
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Breast is not best and Breastfeeding doesn't make you smarter. In this segment International board Certified Lactation consultant and breastfeeding expert, Edith Kernerman admits breastmilk doesn't cure everything, . As she relates stories from the trenches in a world where money talks and breasts are silent. My guest is Edith Kernerman, she is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and clinician in Toronto, Canada, who has seen thousands and thousands of babies and their families over the past 21 years. She was the co-founder and President of theInternational Breastfeeding Centre (IBC), co-founder and Clinic Director of the Newman Breastfeeding Clinic, (NBC), senior faculty at IBC’s Centre for Breastfeeding Studies, and an IBLCE pathway 3 mentor. Kernerman speaks internationally at conferences on various clinical and ethical topics in lactation medicine. She has co-developed “Beyond the 20 hr—Advanced Course In Lactation Medicine” a programme for healthcare professionals and she is the creator and founder of the International Meeting of the Minds, a forum for world experts to discuss issues in lactation medicine for which there have been controversial diagnoses and treatments.
Join me live as I discuss this not for profit's message and motive. On the show I will be joined by breastfeeding experts. Iam hoping to answer unanswered questions and get to the bottom of this groups message and what it means for families and breastfeeding.My guest are :
*Jennifer Tow LLC,IBCLC, RLC, OMT has practiced holistic lactation for 18 years. Through her clinical experience, diligent research, she specializes in helping dyads with compromised gut health, functional restrictions and tongue-tie.
*Edith Kernerman is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and clinician in Toronto, Canada. She was the co-founder and President of the International Breastfeeding Centre (IBC), co-founder and Clinic Director of the Newman Breastfeeding Clinic, (NBC), senior faculty at IBC’s Centre for Breastfeeding Studies.
*Ashley Pickett, IBCLC, is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) in private practice. She also works as a part time staff member at the Newman Breastfeeding Clinic and Institute in Toronto.
Amy L. Gilliland, Ph.D., BDT(DONA), CD(DONA), CSE (AASECT) researches and teaches about doula labor support, women’s sexual experiences, and the psychological needs of mothers and fathers during the birth experience. She is an AASECT certified sexuality educator, a past member of the psychology faculty at Madison College, and one of the first DONA International birth doula trainers. Over her twenty-five year career, her work has spanned the perinatal spectrum. Dr. Gilliland’s research has been published in JOGNN, Midwifery, Journal of Perinatal Education, Sexuality and Culture, and the Wisconsin Medical Journal. She is considered to be a “thought leader” on birth doula issues through her influential blog, Doulaing The Doula. For more information, please go to www.amygilliland.com.
In rural Costa Rica, a 95-year-old midwife passes on the wisdom of her craft to a new generation of women fighting for their right to choose how they give birth. I will be speaking with the film maker. Don't miss it!
We will be talking about the importance of research for the case of improving birth outcomes for families of color, and the why “Giving Voices to Mothers” of color is so important. And about Shafia's dream regarding the Ancestral Midwife Learning Institute (AMLI) in Alabama, and her work for supporting healthy families and a healthy world, more from the preconception and rites of passage angle.
Even women who want a homebirth and even unassisted births seem to have forgotton a lot or nver learend about what birth can truly be like. I talk with Margo Blackstone (AZ Midwife) about what we seem to have forgotten
Imagine a world where children talk to their parents about the changes in their bodies and their sexual desires instead of looking to media for their sex education. If you are interested in making this world a reality, you won't want to miss: Raising Kids Without Sexual Shame.My guest is Nekole Shapiro.
I will be chatting with Jane Austin easy to use yoga tools to support postpartum mamas... to reestablish core stability, vitality and sanity
Laurel Wilson, IBCLC, CLE, CCCE, CLD is Executive Director of Lactation Programs and Faculty for CAPPA, Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association. She recently acted as the Customer Advocate for InJoy Birth and Parenting, teaching webinars and producing podcasts for professionals for three years. She served as the Program Coordinator for Swedish Medical Center and Presbytarian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Colorado, which combined serve nearly 4000 expectant families a year.
Join me as I talk with Peggy O’Mara about this very important topic. Parents need to know what they aren't being told.
My guest Peggy O'Mara was the Editor and Publisher of Mothering Magazine from 1980 to 2011. In 1995 she founded mothering.com and was its editor-in-chief until 2012.
Sleep is such a huge topic when we talk about parenting. Iwill be speaking with Brandi Hadfield and the team from Bebo Mia about sleep, infants and what's normal and what parents can do.
Todays special show is all about what is happening in LA and how you can help ...This is from my guest I will have on in the morning:
Thousands of families lost everything in the flood waters. They had to be evacuated in boats and leave everything behind. MotherBirth is in a unique position in which we have influence with people who could not sleep knowing a baby would go without food or a clean bottom. So, we started collecting diapers, wipes and formula. It is specific. It is important. And it makes a difference in the lives of moms and babies.It's overwhelming the number of people in need, the number of different needs, and the distance in which this devastation is. Within a matter of one day, the donations were pouring in and the emergency needs were being reported all over social media. MotherBirth mobilized and began to connect the needs with the help. We've had organizations, churches, businesses and generous individuals partner with us to maximize these efforts. We are merely the conduit for the help to get to those in need that is being provided by our community and others around the country. It is overwhelming, heart breaking and at the same time our hearts swell with pride and gratitude over all of the goodness in this world that is still left. We're honored to be a small part of the help in our community. We pray our efforts make a difference to parents who have found themselved in a tragic situation, and they feels loved and supported by their community. We know we'll never meet them and don't do any of this for recognition.
For years people have come to me when they find a friend or a relative has a child with a diagnosis of Down Syndrome. They have come to me because they know my daughter Uma, (now 10 years old) has Down Syndrome. I am happy to say I am FINALLY doing a show on this topic.
My guest today Jen Jacob she is the co-founder and Vice President for the Down Syndrome Diagnosis Network (www.dsdiagnosisnetwork.org). As a part of her role, she creates, moderates and manages small, online groups for thousands of new and expectant parents and oversees day to day organizational operations.
Jen is also the co-author of "The Parent's Guide to Down Syndrome: Advice, Information, Inspiration, and Support for Raising Your Child from Diagnosis through Adulthood" and the author and a contributor for "Unexpected, Stories of a Down syndrome diagnosis" (www.missiont21.com). A former educator and professional development leader, she lives in the midwest with her husband and four children; her youngest son, Owen, has Down syndrome.
Dr. Stuart Fischbein, MD OB/GYN has been in private practice of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Southern California since 1986. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1982. He has a long history of support for Midwives and the alternative to the medical model of birth they provide.
Joining me today is Courtney Sirmon. Courtney is the Central Alabama Regional Director of
Alabama Birth Coalition as well as a DONA International Birth Doula and Certified Lactation
Counselor. For over five years, Courtney has served growing families through pregnancy, birth.
postpartum & breastfeeding support. She believes strongly in “mothering the mother” and has
personally and professionally seen the benefits of the midwifery model of care. Growing up in
rural south Alabama, Courtney is passionate about rural access to maternity care. She is the
proud mother of three young children.
Debra Pascali-Bonaro, B.Ed., LCCE, PDT/BDT(DONA) is the Founder & President of Pain to Power Childbirth Experience, Director of the award-winning documentary Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret and co-writer of “Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying and Pleasurable Birth” all of which explore the intimate and sacred nature of birth. Debra is an inspirational international speaker, chair of the International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative, Advisor to Human Rights in Childbirth and ICEA. Debra’s passion comes from her years as a Lamaze International childbirth educator, and birth and postpartum doula trainer with DONA International where she has worked with women, men, midwives, doulas and physicians in over 30 countries bringing comfort, love and pleasure to birth and life!
Today I will be speaking with Alice Turner of Your Doula Bag. Com and we will be discussing the business of being a doula.
About my guest:
Alice is on a mission to support doulas. Her focus over the past seven years has been on products, services and education for doulas. The world needs great doulas who have thriving businesses and she's here to help.
Join us for a lively discussion!
I will be speaking with bestselling author, doula, and founder of the Joy In Birthing Foundation Giuditta Tornetta. She just released the highly anticipated follow up to Painless Childbirth.
Tornetta’s second book promises to be as intensive as the first and delivers with the same in-depth knowledge and compassionate guidance she has become known for worldwide.
Tornetta’s first book encouraged mothers to go on a transformational journey through pregnancy and birth to obtain the birthing experience they deserved and desired. Now Conversation with the Womb is inspiring women to use their creative feminine power to awaken to their full potential, and act as co-creative agents to manifest the life they covet.
“With this book we were looking to utilize the techniques used in Painless Childbirth to encompass the many phases of womanhood, not just pregnancy and birth,” writes Tornetta. “We’ve taken all the knowledge generated from our series of international workshops and condensed it into one book.”
Fully-loaded with hands-on exercises and heart-felt stories Conversations With The Womb goes beyond your run of the mill self-help book and elevates itself as a truly transformational experience. The author’s passion is that contagious.
It is with this grand capacity for imagination Tornetta envisions the rediscovery of the immense creative force of the womb.
CNN Hero & bestselling author Robin Lim writes of Tornetta’s new book, "[Giuditta] rendered her trailblazing idea into a book that is at once practical, and a wildly esoteric page-turner."
My guest today is Katleen Kendall Tacket
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett is a health psychologist and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She is the Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Praeclarus Press, a small press specializing in women’s health. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is a Research Associate at the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Texas Tech University School of Medicine in Amarillo, Texas. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in both the Divisions of Health and Trauma Psychology, Editor-in-Chief of U.S. Lactation Consultant Association’s journal, Clinical Lactation, and is President-Elect of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Trauma Psychology.
Join me as I interview Jesusa Ricoy Olariaga about the Roses Revolution. They want to stop obstetric violence by bringing attention to it. Obstetric violenc is the act of disregarding the authority and autonomy that women have over their own sexualities, their bodies, their babies and their birth experiences. It is also the act of disregarding the spontenaity, the positions the rythms and the times that labor requires in order to progress normally when there is no need for intervention.
It also the act of disregarding the emotional needs of mother and baby throughout the whole labor process.
Don't miss this interview
Brandi Jordan, MSW, IBCLC For the past decade, Brandi has been helping new families grow, adjust, and find balance. Brandi is a Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Pediatric Sleep Specialist, Newborn Care Specialist and a Certified Postpartum Doula. She holds a BA in Child Development and a Master's of Social Work from USC. In 2009, she opened The Cradle Company Parenting Center and Boutique, a Los Angeles resource center for parents. Brandi's work as a consultant, group leader, and in-home practitioner has lead her to to develop a unique philosophy of parenting, fondly named Practical Parenting™, a pragmatic, practical and healthy approach for the "whole" family
"How can we balance our enjoyment of social media with our yearning to connect in our own home, eye to eye with our children, to model this for them so that they don’t practice a way of seeing that doesn’t require them to look up?" This is an excerpt from an article by Lu Hanessian.
Lu is an award-winning writer and science journalist, educator, author of acclaimed book "Let the Baby Drive: Navigating the Road of New Motherhood" (St. Martin's Press, 2004), former NBC anchor/host (Real Life;Unsolved Mysteries) and Discovery Health Channel host of Make Room for Baby and Total Family Health, and active speaker. For five years, she hosted The Science Show, syndicated in 110 countries, translated into 17 languages. In 2012-13, Lu co-hosted an educational television program in NYC called Liberty Treehouse. She is a frequent guest contributor on FOX5 Live in New York as an education and parenting author, expert and advocate. Lu's essays and articles have been published in The New York Times,Mothering, Parenting, Fit Pregnancy and Redbook. She has been a guest on The View, CNN, NPR, FOX, MSNBC, Life & Style, the Today Show, WABC and more.She is an award-winning newspaper columnist.
For two decades Jane has worked with mamas, not only as a yoga teacher but also as a midwife, doula (labor assistant) and childbirth educator. Informed by years of experience working in the field of women’s health, she is uniquely suited to instruct yoga to women as they transition into motherhood.
Jane is the founder and director of Mama Tree, a Yoga Alliance registered school dedicated to training yoga teachers, birth professionals and other health professionals interested in teaching prenatal and postnatal yoga. As a certified yoga teacher and a registered yoga teacher trainer through Yoga Alliance, Jane’s teacher training program attracts students from all over the world interested in learning how to utilize the practice of yoga to support pre- and postnatal women physically, mentally and emotionally. She also teaches the Yoga in Pregnancy component of many yoga teacher training schools including Yoga Tree in San Francisco. By training teachers, it is her hope to make yoga assessable to any mama that wants to experience the benefits of this ancient and powerful tradition.
It is Jane’s mission to offer women a mindful, supportive and nourishing yoga practice that empowers them not only in pregnancy and childbirth but for all the years of motherhood that follow.
I love what Dr. Michel Odent says about our guest:
"Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at home. She can also speak like a medical doctor. By intermingling the language of the heart and the scientific language she is driving the history of childbirth towards a radical and inspiring new direction."
My guest today is RIANE EISLER a social and systems scientist, attorney, and author whose work on cultural transformation has inspired both scholars and social activists. Her groundbreaking research has impacted many fields, including history, economics, psychology, sociology, education, and healthcare. She has been a leader in the movement for peace, sustainability, and economic equity, and her pioneering work in human rights has expanded the focus of international organizations to include the rights of women and children. She is president of the Center for Partnership Studies (CPS), dedicated to research and education on social and economic transformation; co-founder of CPS’s Caring Economy Campaign and, with Nobel Peace laureate Betty Williams, of the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV); and Editor in Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, an online peer-reviewed journal housed at the University of Minnesota that was inspired by Eisler’s work.
My guest is Dr Adrienne Carmack, her work on birth rights-rights to genital autnonmy, which in the U.S. are mostly issues for boys and intersex children, the right to natural birth, the right to conscientious decision-making on vaccinations and the right to breastfeed.
Although medical technology has advanced tremendously and she has seen lives saved, Dr Carmack has also witnessed harm after harm arising from “preventive” measures (such as prostate cancer (PSA) screening and newborn circumcision) and treatments (such as medications and elective surgeries). Though these interventions all have appropriate roles, using them before trying less risky alternatives, such as lifestyle modifications, can expose you to unnecessary risks and fail to address the underlying causes, which may lead to other illnesses later.
Mindful parenting can start in your pregnancy. Join us today as we discuss what it means to be mindful and how being mindful can affect your parenting and your relationships with others.
My guest is Abby Bordner. I am excited to have Abby on the show, I've been a big fan for years.
Abby’s background is in medical settings, community education and entrepreneurship. She currently has many online and in person projects for the non profit sector and her private business.
Certified Labor Doula and Lactation Educator (CAPPA): Abby works with families in pregnancy education, labor support, birth advocacy and postpartum. She provides home visits, as well as teaches to groups, to assist in childbirth preparation and breastfeeding.
Certified Childbirth Educator (ICEA): Abby teaches childbirth preparation in a relatable, intelligent way. She provides information and inspires transformation for all who experience her presentation.
My guest tonight is Elly Taylor.
Elly is a leading parenthood researcher, international speaker and author.
Her passion is teaching parents and professionals about the stages of early parenthood so our new families can thrive – right from the beginning.
I will be discussing infant and maternal mortality, disparities in maternal healthcare with the amazing Jennie Joespeh.
Jennie Joseph is a British-trained midwife, a women’s health advocate, the founder and executive director of Commonsense Childbirth Inc. and the creator of The JJ Way®. She moved to the United States in 1989 and began a journey that has culminated in the formation of an innovative maternal child healthcare system, markedly improving birth outcomes for women in Central Florida.
Jennie has worked extensively in European hospitals, American birth centers, clinics and homebirth environments. She has been instrumental in the regulation of Florida midwives since the 1990’s and has been involved in midwifery education since 1995. She is the chair of Florida’s State Council of Licensed Midwives. Currently she owns a Florida licensed midwifery school attached to The Birth Place, her nationally renowned birth center and maternity medical home in Winter Garden, Florida.
I am pleased and honored to have her on the show
Gena had originally had Randy Patterson of Pro Doula scheduled for today, but a run of stomach virus has caused Gena to have to reschedule. In it's place we are replaying Gena's favorite interview with the late Dr. Marsden Wagner. Here is the information from when we last replayed the show:
Dr.Marsden Wagner will be our very special guest on Progressive Parenting. We will be discussing the safety of home birth, and informed choice. He spent 15 years Director, Women's and Children's Health, World Health Organization (responsible for Women's and Children's Health in 45 industrialized countries). He's been in many documentaries including, PREGNANT IN AMERICA, THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN, and ORGASMIC BIRTH. He's also the author of BORN IN THE USA:How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First. I am so excited to have him on the show as he is an inspiration to myself and so many other mother and baby advocates. We are also speaking with Lisa Gartin RN, she is a pediatric nurse, doula, childbirth educator and mother of four children.
THIS IS EPISODE IS A REPLAY FROM WHEN WE HAD A SHOW ON AN AM STATION! SO NO LIVE CALLS TONIGHT (SORRY). Any questions about this show can be sent to progressiveparentingradio@gmail.com
Tonight I will be speaking with Rhea Dempsey, we will be discussing what it takes to give birth with confidence. We will talk about normal physiological birth and pain. Join us live to share stories ask questions or Fan girl over Rhea, goodness knows it will be hard for me not to...
About Rhea Dempsey
An educator, speaker, author and birth attendant (doula) with experience at over 1,000 births, Rhea Dempsey is a respected birth practitioner with a reputation as one of the foremost thinkers on the topic of working with pain in childbirth and its connection to normal physiological birthing.
With three adult daughters of her own and two grandchildren, Rhea’s understanding of birth has been gained during 36 years working with women in home and hospital settings.
Rhea is a highly sought after speaker and presenter at conferences, seminars and workshops on birth and counselling issues. She regularly addresses pregnant women, their partners and support people; complementary health practitioners; midwives and medical practitioners.
Sleep. It's the number one concern with new parents, and they get some crazy advice. From our culture to friends, parents hear it all, but what's true and what's fable? Join Meg Nagle, and I as we discuss sleep and your baby.
ABOUT MEG
Meg has a degree in Psychology and was a La Leche League Leader (breastfeeding counsellor) for seven years before becoming an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She an incredibly successful blogger, and has published articles in, “Nurture Parenting Magazine”.
My guest today is Kimberly Durdin IBCLC, SMW. She has been supporting families as a La Leche League Leader and Breastfeeding Peer Counselor for the WIC program in Brooklyn, NY over 23 years ago and as a doula. She was part of the BLESS Project (Breastfeeding Lactation Education Support Services) at historic Howard University Hospital in creating their first ever lactation clinic providing 24 hour lactation services free of charge for HUH families. Before leaving D.C., Kimberly was named one of the Top Lactation Consultants in the area by Washington Families Magazine.
Kimberly worked as a LC for the Watts Healthcare Corporation 5 site WIC Program after moving to Los Angeles, where she trained staff, oversaw breastfeeding peer counselors, and provided one on one LC care for families throughout South LA. In 2009, She joined the groundbreaking company The Sanctuary Birth & Family Wellness Center, and acted as the Director of Lactation Services and created The Sanctuary New Moms Group, a popular and powerful community space for new mothers that she has lead weekly, as well as conducting childbirth education curriculum for out of hospital birthing families. She taught this class twice a week as well as a program for hospital birthing families she created entitled Enhanced Pregnancy. She has been an LC for twelve years and has begun teaching a 45-hour Lactation Consultant Exam Prep Course, as well as mentoring IBCLC candidates.
Kimberly recently stepped out on her own, attending births as a Student Midwife and Doula, expanding her role as a birth and breastfeeding advocate, speaker and organizer. She has recently signed on to be the “Expecting and New Parent Expert” at WellBaby Center which hosts her weekly Mom’s support group The Mama Tent.
The topic we will be broaching today is the New York Times article by Eleanor Davis: Over Selling Breast-Feeding.
Former obstetrician and childbirth pioneer Michel Odent argues that the aspect of human lifestyle that has been most profoundly changed in recent decades is the period of time surrounding the birth of a child. Since this formative time is considered critical in defining our species, Homo sapiens, fundamental changes in this area should herald significant evolution in regard to how babies are born. This, surely, should be at the heart of our discussions of the future, even above considerations of how humanity and planet earth interact.
This interview will prove to be thought provoking and eye opening. Join us live or listen to the archived recording. Live listeners can call in and ask our guest questions live. Michel Odent, MD, has been in charge of the surgical unit and the maternity unit at the Pithiviers (France) state hospital (1962–1985) and is the founder of the Primal Health Research Centre (London). He is the author of the first articles in the medical literature about the initiation of lactation during the hour following birth and of the first article about use of birthing pools.He created the Primal Health Research Data Base
According to current guidlines vaginal breech delivery is still a reasoinable option but doctors are no longer taught it and most dont offer it. Today I will be talking to Dr. Elliott Berlin Director of TRIAL OF LABOR. Dr. Elliot Berlin is an award winning prenatal chiropractor, childbirth educator and labor support bodyworker. Dr. Berlin works with several hundred breech babies each year, most of whom turn into the ideal pre-birth position once normal function is restored to the mothers low back and pelvis. Dr. Berlin, a labor support doula, also attends birth, providing the laboring mother with bodywork such as massage, reflexology, acupressure, counter pressure, and chiropractic adjustments to help keep mom relaxed, comfortable and focused and in ideal mind and body condition for smooth, uncomplicated labor and delivery. Dr. Berlin attends labor at hospitals, home and birthing centers and can be instead of or addition to a traditional labor doula.
Join me and Anna Graybill Van Wagoner as we discuss the EXCITING upcoming BirthKeeper Summit in Berkeley California.
Today I will be talking to Sherry Payne. She will be walking across the state of Missouri along the Katy Trail to bring attention to the invisible epidemic of African-American infant mortality- babies dying prior to their first birthday. Here in the US, Black babies die at twice the rate of their Caucasian counterparts. The reason for this is very complex but we must increase awareness of the problem to increase our efforts at solutions. She will be walking for 12 days across our state (200 miles along the Katy Trail from Kansas City to St. Louis) and talking to lots of groups and organizations as I cross the state.
Last week, Utah press reported that grandmother midwife Vickie Sorensen had been jailed and charged with manslaughter for a stillbirth or neonatal death that occurred in December 2012. The press reported that Vickie's home had been raided by armed police with cadaver dogs the year before, on an allegation that she was burying dead babies in her backyard. The press failed to mention that there were no dead babies in the backyard, and it failed to comment on the affect such a raid had on the Sorensen family, and the Utah midwifery community in general.
TODAY Gena will interview Human Rights in Childbirth founder Hermine Hayes-Klein and midwifery activist Katie McCall about the legal treatment of home birth midwives like Sorensen. How does the treatment of home birth midwives affect women's right to choose for home birth? What are the human rights implications of the difference between what doctors face after a bad maternity care outcome, and what midwives face?
My guest is Ariel Gore of HIP MAMA MAGAZINE. This months cover went viral before the issue hit news stands. But that's just it. The issue didn't hit news stands because of the cover. Which depicts a woman nursing with out a top/blouse/shirt her child (who happens to be 4). Vendors refused to sell the magazine.
Join us live as we discuss Americas double standard when it comes to breasts, censorship and breastfeeding.
My guest will be Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, is an award-winning travel, culture, and parenting writer.
She is the author of The Business of Baby: What Doctors Don’t Tell You, What Corporations Try to Sell You, and How to Put Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby BEFORE Their Bottom Line.
She is a former contributing editor at Mothering magazine and her writing has appeared in many of the nation’s most respected and credible publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and on the cover of Smithsonian Magazine.
Today we will be discussing everything you never knew about how the functions and how to care for a newborn one! I was speaking with some expectant women recently and they were saying they wished there was somewhere to go to ask the questions they were afraid to ask in public. Well, here it is!
Join us live to call in and ask questions or join the live chat room!
A couple in Port Orford Oregon have started a petition asking Target Stores to "Stop ifying infant girls with "sexy" pacifiers". There seems to be two camps of parents out there; Those that agree vehemently with this petition and those who think this couple is making a mountain out of a molehill.
I will be speaking with Melissa Wardy, author of Redifining Girly Thursday afternoon at 1:30pm EST about this and the sexualization of infants girls and young women in our culture.
My guest is Hector Cruz a concerned dad and in my book, a rock star: Here is a note from him all about his amazing project! Tune in live, call us with questions and comments!
Project: Breastfeeding is my goal of helping to destigmatize public breastfeeding, and I believe education is where it all starts. New fathers need education about the benefits of breastfeeding and how much of a significant role they actually play in establishing a great breastfeeding relationship between the mother and child. I want women to feel empowered and determined to do what is the most natural thing for themselves and for their child and to have their husbands as their biggest supporters would just be the perfect finale. Society needs to change and accept breastfeeding as normal! That is the ultimate goal of Project: Breastfeeding. I also am motivated to get this journey to a national level and be successful enough to the point of having billboards with the photos of real moms nursing their babies while the daddy stands proud by her side. I am thriving to have these images all over major cities in the United States of America in hopes that the images will serve as a visual reminder that breastfeeding is natural and beautiful and will break down the stigma of public breastfeeding. . Lastly, I want to turn this project into a non-profit establishment that will offer breastfeeding support classes to fathers. As husbands, we want to be there for our wives and our children, but sometimes we don’t know where to start. I want women to know that their husbands are here to support, empower, and help them on their breastfeeding journey.
Robin Grille is the author of Parenting for a Peaceful World and Heart to Heart Parenting. He is coming to the United States for a Parenting for a Peaceful World Tour in December.
Robin Grille is a father, a psychologist in private practice with twenty years' experience, and a parenting educator. His articles on parenting and child development have been widely published in Australia and overseas. Robin's first book: 'Parenting for a Peaceful World' (2005) has received international acclaim and led to speaking engagements around Australia, USA and New Zealand. 'Heart to Heart Parenting' (ABC Books) is Robin's second book.
A passionate speaker and social change activist, Robin's extensive research has led him to feel that improved attention to babies' and children's emotional needs is the most powerful way to move societies toward sustainability and peace.
Join us live Tuesday night at 9pm CST call in with questions or to share your experience
Giving Austin Labor Support (GALS) brings another exciting documentary to the Austin community. BREASTMILK is the latest film from Executive Producers Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, the creative minds behind The Business of Being Born (2008).
Why do breasts and breastfeeding excite such interest, controversy, rage and passion?
Breastfeeding has made a lot of headlines lately – from the controversial photo on the cover of Time magazine toWhoopi Goldberg’s public bashing of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, to military moms being criticized for breastfeeding in uniform. Our society is enamored with “baby bumps” but what follows the birth is a different, slightly messier story. Lactose intolerance takes on a whole new meaning as it relates to women, their breasts and their milk. The act of breastfeeding has been immortalized by great artists all over the world, so why are we disturbed by contemporary images of women nurturing children? Why do we have to struggle to normalize this human mammalian behavior?
Join us as I speak with Karli Heatherington of Gals and Krisdee & Gail of
"Even though recovery is a major part of, most women just do not plan for it. It is, therefore, no coincidence that post-pregnancy disorders are the most common complication after childbirth. Thus, the well being and healthy recovery of a woman after childbirth should be just as important of a priority, as taking care of a newborn child."
These words are from Valerie Lynn's book The Mommy Plan. Tonight we will discuss natural ways to care for oneself post partum. What happens when we don't and why as a cuture we really haven't/do not.
Haunted Mamas: Healing the Heartbreak of a Traumatic Birth?
Tonight my guest will be Christy Diane Farr. Traumatic births leave wounds -- some more subtle than others -- that leave new moms feeling disconnected from themselves and the people they love. Broken hearts need the courage and resources to heal in preparation for, and also through, childbirth. Recognizing and honoring previous birth trauma nurtures a woman's trust and confidence in you, and perhaps most importantly, within herself. Christy Farr of Seeds and Weeds Coaching and I will spend this hour exploring ways that moms and those who support them can work together to cultivate the healing they need and desire.
Everyone’s Nightmare: The Dark Side of Sports News reports uncovering more than 10 alleged sexual abuse or assault cases per month involving athletes or coaches highlight the fact that the story of sexual aggression in sports is far from over. These alarming incidents raise questions about underlying causes and other types of sexually deviant and aggressive behaviors that silently thrive within insulated athletic teams beginning in high school. While this information is certain to shock, raise awareness, and provide a wake-up call for those in and outside of the sports world, Dr. Pappas also discusses a course of action for preventing these harmful behaviors while promoting personal and team excellence in the process.
Agh! We cringe when we hear these words, yet what do they mean and how can the power dynamic shift? In this radio show, we'll have a relationship focused counselor, Elly Taylor, wax eloquent on this topic all the way from Sydney, Australia. She authored a book called Becoming Us, and together we'll explore what is going on for a dad and mom when "He won't let me do it" applies to birth choices.
Tonight my guest is Michelle Gober, she is a midwife and birth activist. She attended the 2nd Annual Birth Activist Retreat in Utah, and is a volunteer for the U.S. Human Rights in Childbirth Legal Defense Network. She received her midwifery training in the controversial birth states of Arizona and North Carolina.She initiated fundraising efforts for Rowan Bailey's bail and legal defense. Later in the program we will be joined by Hermine Hayes-Klein an Attorney and the director of the Bynkershoek Research Center for Reproductive Rights (RCRR) at the Bynkershoek Institute in The Hague. In 2012 she organized a conference on Human Rights in Childbirth in The Hague, along with a team of volunteers. The conference and the issues it addressed were memorialized in the documentary Freedom for Birth. We will be discussing the ultimate responsibility of the parents, the rights of the birthing mother and the persecution of midwives and more. Please join us live or in the chat room.n
Unless you've been hiding out on hiatus from the media you will most likely have heard about Miley Cyrus recent choices. Recently Be a Man University recently wrote a story on this entitled: WHO IS LOOKING OUT FOR MILEY CYRUS.
There were lots of people on both sides of this topic. I am looking forward to talk to the BAM group Rob Tremp, Dae Sheridan and Scott Merrit. Join us live at 7pm pst
Tonight our Show starts off with 3 Dads and a Doc from BE A MAN UNIVERSITY they are writing a book and creating a MOVEMENT for fathers who want more positive and meaningful interactions with their daughters! Their mission: To become the greatest Dad generation in history! After wards I get to chat with Brian Salmon! He's a dude-la in San Antonio Texas Helping mamas and their families during an exciting and sometimes scary part of life, BIRTH!
Losing a child is traumatic, tragic and earth shattering. What happens when you become pregnant again? My guests grappling this topic will be Heidi Faith of Stillbirthday.com and Franchesca Cox author of Celebrating Pregnancy Again, she started an online magazine for contributors to write pieces about their journeys. It's called Still Standing Magazine.
Join me as I speak with Courtney Jarecki of Home Birth Cesarean. While the percentage of women who go from having a homebirth to a cesarean is small, their stories are nonetheless powerful, meaningful and important. Until now, no one has gathered and shared these stories, leaving many HBC moms to feel as their birth experiences don’t matter, and creating a vacuum their stories would otherwise fill. Just as HBC mothers often find themselves estranged from the homebirth community, many midwives and birth workers are at a loss as to how best support these women and their families.
The name Homebirth Cesarean originated as a way for women to distinguish their birth from the existing categories that didn’t apply. These women spent nine-months preparing for a homebirth and the spirit and homebirth philosophies still apply to their birth.HBC mothers quickly understood the name distinction, and the ways that language can both empower and set limits
What? He won't change the diapers?! Why dads drop the ball, a 45 min radio show finding solutions to uninvolved dads. Join Joe Valey of EMPOWERED PAPA live! Call in with your comments or questions at (921) 889-2492 Joe valley is a psychotherapist and educator working to support the dads role in birth. He helps birth professionals and moms understand a dad's unique experience, and he provides support to dads for their important role.
Tonight my guests will be Anna Van Wagoner and Kirsti Kreutzer of the Birth Activist retreat. Join us live! from their site: It is time for a full scale birth revolution! The time for talking is long past. Our maternal and infant mortality rates are not going down. Our surgical birth rate is not going down. Birth trauma and birth rape are far too common. We need action now! The Birth Activist Retreat is not your typical conference where folks sit around passively consuming information. We will be working as a group planning actions that will make a difference: Nationally coordinated events, such as the Improving Birth Rallies; local events that can transform communities; and individual actions that will raise awareness about the challenges we face. There will be workshops where Birth Activists can build the skills they need to make a difference. There will be many opportunities to network with other activists, share inspiring ideas and receive feedback on the unique issues facing your community.
Birth and breastfeeding have become far too clinical and cerebral. Women possess an internal knowledge that surpasses intellectual understanding of our bodies. It is our personal goal to support women in accessing that feminine knowing that allows us to trust our bodies, trust our breasts, trust our babies and trust ourselves. I will talk to The Producers:Jennifer Davidson RN BSN IBCLC and Chantal Molnar RN MA IBCLC about their film The Milky Way. This film shows how women can reclaim their birthright and restore the nursing mother archetype. More than a breastfeeding promotion film, this is a film by, for, and about women. It is about the knowledge that inherently resides in every woman, how to access that knowledge and how to trust what we already know. It is a film that will inspire women to say, “I can do that!” “I want to do that!
My guest is the Author of THE BUSINESS OF BABYWhat Doctors Don't Tell You, What Corporations Try to Sell You, and How to Put Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Before Their Bottom Line She's had some harsh critiques on her tellling of how our children are exploited. There is a very real business happening and we will discuss it tonight. I hope you will call in or join us in the chat room.
Roanna is an the author of the Amazon Bestseller, Cut, Stapled, & Mended: When One Woman Reclaimed Her Body and Gave Birth on Her Own Terms After Cesarean, an award-winning international speaker, co-founder and host of Birth Plan Radio, and the executive action chair of Human Rights in Childbirth and most importantly, a mother. In her not-so-humble opinion, the latter makes her a true birth expert. “While I’m grateful for the incredible support I’ve received from both doctors and midwives, the vast majority of births, like every other bodily function, are best managed by the body in question. It’s time to put women’s needs, feelings, and intuition back in the center of the birth process. Women are the rock-stars of birth; professionals are the backup singers.”
Join me tonight as I speak with the dynamic and intriguing host of Being MomTV! WAIT! Stay with me this is NOT tv the way you may be thinking...BEING MOM with Sarah Ripard is an entirely different television talk show hybrid that delves in the realities of what it means to BE a parent and caregiver in the 21st century. Given the complexities of our changing world, are we RAISING mentally and emotionally balanced, compassionate, thriving human beings? Regardless of how you define your family unit, whether you are a new parent or already have children, BEING MOM is the go-to show for how we approach and resolve everyday situations. Join us tonight, call in or join our live chat, it's gonna be fun!
Today my guest is Cyd Ropp. she has a Ph.D. in rhetorical Theory and Criticism from the University of Memphis. Today we will talk about the differences between midwifery and obstetrics and how it's oxymoronic to charge midwives with practicing medicine. We will also talk about intuition and prudential reasoning vs. logic and protocols. While we are at it we are going to tackle this thought: that all women should think of this as a "pro-choice" topic--why should pro-choice only mean abortion? Can't we coopt the phrase for homebirth? (do you think that's too controversial? Would Christians want to be "pro-choice" for homebirth? Can live and let live extend to everyone's womb? It's gonna be a good one!
Tonight I will be speaking with the women of Doula Trainings International. We will be discussing their upcoming retreat and all things birth, doula and juicy!
On Friday we hoped to speak live with Rowan Bailey, a birth advocate in North Carolina, where midwives are literally criminalized and Homebirth is virtually prohibited because mothers are forced to choose hospital birth or unassisted birth. We hoped to talk to Rowen from jail, where she was taken because she assisted a mother in excercising her own human right to birth her baby where she chose. Unfortunately she was unable to contact us during the live progra. I was able to talk to an attorney during the program, Hermine Hays-Klein. We also spoke with Leigh, Rowans wife.
In tonight's special show we are covering breaking news. Republican Representative Debbie Riddle said yesterday in a Facebook post: House Bill 1706 was brought before a House Committee today – it is about breast feeding. Now, I am all in favor of breast feeding – however it is important for women to be modest while feeding their baby – and most women are modest and respectful. But, a bill that would allow for law suits if one “interfered” with a woman breast feeding is really going a bit far. If a business owner objects to a woman who is not being modest then be fearful of a law suit is government out of control. Most of our laws and bills being considered for law would not be necessary if people would simply be considerate and thoughtful of others. Needless to say – I am not supporting this bill. I will be discussing this with Sara Chana Silverstein IBCLC-RH. This statement has caused quite a lot of furror on the internet. Pitting moms against one another..
On tonights show I will be speaking with Christy Diane Farr. She is a life coach and this is her 9th appearance on our show. We will be discussing chaos in our lives, spring cleaning, and simplifying your life. Christy is an author a teacher and entrpreneur . She helps overwhelemed people learn to cultivate healing and personal freedom through in-depth self-discovery, self-acceptance and integrity alignment.
Tonight I will be speaking with Jennifer Rue McLellan of Plus Size Birth. She will share 3 ways to help achieve a healthy plus size pregnancy and empowered birth.
"With 60% of women in their childbearing years being classified as overweight or obese, it’s time we start empowering rather than shaming women of size."
My guest tonight is, Lyssa Armenta she has been the happy proud mother to her son, Sterling, who was born in 1999, daughter, Samantha, who joined in 200wife of Chris since 1997 and the proud mother to her son, Sterling, who was born in 1999, daughter, Samantha, who joined in 2002 and son, Spencer, who completed the family in 2007. Lyssa loves to problem solve and her career as an author began as she felt the deep need to share her Dancing Method that she perfected after a decade to get her kids to sleep. Her passion is to keep improving the quality of life of her family and others and truly believes Gentle Goodnight can do that for babies and their moms!Her book Gentle Goodnight will guide you through a step-by-step sleep method that will have your baby or toddler to sleep in less than 25 minutes.
Sara Chana Silverstein is a Brooklyn-based, international board-certified lactation consultant (IBCLC), classical homeopath, herbalist, businesswoman, wife and mother of seven children. Sara is your teacher and guide as you navigate the challenging worlds of working mom and/or breastfeeding mother, revealing the secrets to taking charge of your own health for the wellbeing of both you and your child. She is a highly sought-after public speaker, presenting an array of topics in an intelligent, compelling, funny, provocative, and exciting way. On tonights show Gena will be talking with Sara about Winter Colds and the flu. How to avoid them and what to do if you get sick...without using conventional medicine!
Tonight I am thrilled to talk with Anni Daulter mother author (of six books) and game changer. She is starting a movement towards a more conscious look at pregnancy and birth. Her Sacred Pregnancy retreats are popping up all over the world. Women and MEN are flocking to her retreats to become certified to teach Sacred Pregnancy childbirth education classes!
Join us as we talk passionately and get all juicy about pregnancy birth and babies!
My guest tonight is Dr. Beth Gineris, MA, MBA, MSOM focuses her practice as a Medical Intuitive Life Coach and Mindfulness seminar trainer.. She specializes in using her east-west, spirit/mind/body integrated training and medical intuition to offer solutions focused Life Coaching, parenting skills training, relationship development and mindfulness focused treatment of many areas of spirit/mind/body imbalances. Utilizing methods she has developed into models she calls Instinctive Health Medicine and Soul-utions Focused Life Coaching to return your whole system to balanced, harmonious living.
Tonight we will be discussing developing an attitude of midfulness so parents can circumvent the trap of daily power struggles with children that often create stress for all involved. Through her mindful"turning NO to ON guidance Dr. Gineris provides resolutions that create a sense of structure while still being playful enough to allow one's child to become happy, strong and self-confident individulas
On a special Tuesday morning show I will be talking with Karli Heatherington of GALS. Giving Austin Labor Support. GALS is an official 501(c)(3) non-profit volunteer organization which seeks to provide emotional and physical support to women during their birth experience. Anyone in the Austin area can access a volunteer labor support companion by contacting the dispatch line: 512.934.2171. MISSION: Providing emotional, physical, and informational support to empower women through their birth experience. She will also share an upcoming event at Alamo Drafthouse a screening of Ina May Gaskins new film BIRTH STORY
Hello, this is Joe Valley of Empowered Papa and last week was my first episode here on Blog Talk Radio...which was awesome...and waaaay full of technical learning curve moments. This week we are going to do a do-over and have Mars Lord over again for a chat about dads and doulas. I invite you to heckle us again...and you'll have good reason this time! My guest, Mars Lord, was one of the first people I met after creating Empowered Papa, and she has remained a close friend. She is a doula in the UK whose experience includes attending a bagillion births and giving birth to five kids, two of which are twins. Mars has a good rapport with dads and I suspect it's because she works to support dads in supporting moms. Heckle us for real this time because we've ironed out the kinks...and we can take it! It's Monday, January 17, 2012 12 Pacific 1pm Mountain 2pm Central 3pm Eastern 8pm UK See you there! Joe
Today I will be talking to Jamie Bodily. She is a Doula who strives to help pregnant women, their families and other doulas. She holds Masters degrees in Mental Health Counseling and Human Services . She has a fb page dedicated to Mentoring Doulas. In todays discussion we will talk about training support self development and more...Join us live or listen at your leisure as all of our shows are archived!
Tonight the topic is Agnes Gereb. Dr Agnes Gereb is a qualified Hungarian obsetrician, midwife and international homebirth expert. She is respected worldwide for her work on behalf of pregnant women. She has championed the right of women to choose how they give birth and has herself attended many thousands of successful home births. Agnes was taken into police custody on 5 October 2010 – minutes after attending to a woman who had unexpectedly gone into labour at Agnes’ birth centre in Budapest. Both mother and baby were transferred to hospital, where they were soon discharged. Hungarian law prevents midwives from attending births outside hospitals and Agnes has been charged with ”reckless endangerment of life committed in the line of duty”. She could face imprisonment for 1–5 years.
Annie is a respected educator, award-winning author, and a trusted online adviser. Her life’s work is helping teens become more self-aware, self-confident and better able to make choices that reflect who they really are. She does it through Q&A, events at schools, and books like her Middle School Confidential™ series.
Annie is also committed to working with parents and teachers. Part of that effort recognizes that 21st century children require 21st century parenting and mentoring. Annie’s live events and her “Family Confidential” podcast series teach adults how to give teens what they need for healthy social/emotional development in middle school and beyond. Join us live!
Tonight on our program we will be speaking with Dr. Bill Sears about reading and your little one.
“Without question, the most important thing parents can do is read aloud to their child. When a child is ready to start reading on his or her own, the last thing you want is for them to get discouraged. The problem with many books labeled ‘for emerging readers’ is that they are still too hard for the true beginner.
Women have been told that CPS will be called if they don't capitulate to a c section! if you don't know what your rights are then you don' have any!.
My guest is Lisa Pratt an Attorney whose focus is on empowering women during their pregnancies and birth
A Full Scale Birth Revolution on Labor Day A massive uprising happened today. Thousands of men, women and children gathered (today, September 3rd, 2012) as part of a national movement. Improving Birth’s “National Rally for Change on Labor Day” was hosted in close to 100 major cities, in all 50 states across the country. Thanks to the intricate works of social media, ImprovingBirth.org was able to organize a massive movement to bring awareness to the lack of evidence-based maternity care in the US. One writer coined it as “The largest women’s movement in decades.” Join us live tonight as I speak with Dawn Thompson the woman behind it all.
My guest tonight is Robert Nickell Robert is also the founder and CEO of DaddyScrubs, the first online global brand offering delivery room duds and daddy gear for expectant and new dads. The website includes a popular weekly parenting blog, penned by Nickell (aka Daddy Nickell) covering topics such as bonding with your child and what fathers should expect during pregnancy and infancy.
Nickell is a well known syndicated columnist for national newspapers, parenting magazines and websites including Baby Couture Magazine, Oh Baby! Magazine, City Parent Magazine, and Homeschooling Parent. He provides tips and insights from a father’s perspective.
Daddy Nickell has appeared on many national talk shows and daytime television shows including “Good Morning L.A.”, “Good Morning Texas”, “Fox 5 San Diego”, “WZZM 13”, “OK52”, and “KSBI TV”, offering tips to new parents.
Join me when I interview Dr. Elliot Berlin, DC. Four expectant mothers, from completely separate walks in life, came late one November to the offices of Dr Elliot Berlin. They had a few things in common; they had undergone C-sections, were all pregnant again, and were determined to try and birth vaginally. They had individually sort the education they needed to tackle this task and decipher the truth in what amounted to a tidal wave of misinformation, coercion, skewed medical policy and insurance limitations.Trial Of Labor is the documentation of their highly emotional journey to attempt what nature intended: to simply birth naturally. This is their story.
How to Connect With Dad In a Powerful Way, One Question that can change everything. My guest is Joe Valley of Empowered Papa. About Joe is his own words: "I am Joe Valley, creator and writer of Empowered Papa. I provide encouragement and education. I support the modern birth movement. I advocate for informed birth choices. I talk about birth the empowered way. I coach. I teach. I listen. I help ordinary people become extraordinary parents. How? By guiding them through this amazing transformation in their lives." Find Joe on Facebook
Tonight I will be talking to Melissa Wardy, her goal is to empower girls to change the way the world thinks about them. “We need to ‘Redefine Girly’ and show the world just how smart, brave, and adventurous our daughters can be. Pigtail Pals was created to provide parents with images and messages they would be proud to raise their girls with.” In 2010 Melissa began the Redefine Girly blog to educate parents on issues of gender stereotypes and sexualization that our children face.
This is week 8 of working with my life coach. Christy Diane Farr, who heads an amazing program called SICK OF BEING STUCK! Sick of Being Stuck (SOBS) is an approach to clutter-clearing that promises to cultivate change in all of the gardens of your life. This program is about creating space for you in your life. People come to Seeds and Weeds Coachingwhen they are feeling lost, overwhelmed, or invisible. If you’re trying to make a change — improve health, change jobs, express creativity, find (or rediscover) love, increase resource flow, etc. — but you just can’t seem to make it happen on your own, this program may be for you. Tonight we are tackling my relationship with my husband of 13 years. YIKES!!
My guest tonight is Tamara Tait. We will be talking about VBACS and the VBAC Summit and what you need to know about your choices and rights. Trained as a midwife and marriage and family therapist Tamara has a varied background in women’s reproductive health activism and has been working in maternal, infant and child health for the last seven years. Tamara has a deep interest in the sustainability of the midwifery profession and politics as it relates to birth. Currently pursuing a Phd in Family Therapy, her research interests focus on exploring mental health issues that are pervasive during the childbearing year particularly the experience of postpartum depression, post traumatic stress associated with birth and perinatal bereavement. Tamara serves as the Southeast representative on the board of the Midwives Alliance of North America, is the current president of Florida Friends of Midwives, founder of The Monarch Collective and the owner of The Gathering Place in Miami, Florida.
Homeschooling is increasing in popularity at an extremely high rate; many estimates place the growth rate between 7% and 15% per year (Reaching the Homeschool Market by Mark Lardas in Tdmonthly magazine, October 2003). More and more parents are deciding to homeschool some need more information about how to go about it. My guest tonight is Talitha Seibel of Momstinct {blog}. She is a homeschooling mother of 4 in Atlanta Georgia. She is a second generation homeschooler. Call in with question or comments
It's been 2 weeks since I spoke with Christy, my life coach. Terrified to do tonights show. I haven't done anything I was suposed to do and I feel terrible. Wish me luck! After years of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results I have finally decided to call in an expert. 30 self help books later I am still not the person I want to be. I feel like I am stuck and I want out! So I called Christy Farr, she is a life coach who I have featured on my radio show Progressive Parenting. And away we go!
I can't believe it's been a week since my last call with Christy my life coach! I've managed to release over 72 things from my life and countles bags of paper work! Wondering what left I have private to sift through tonight! :0 After years of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results I have finally decided to call in an expert. 30 self help books later I am still not the person I want to be. I feel like I am stuck and I want out! So I called Christy Farr, she is a life coach who I have featured on my radio show Progressive Parenting. And away we go!
Last weeks show ended with me talking about my sex life! Yeesh! I doubt I could be more transparent. We shall see, I am oddly not so scared about tonight. Ya know? After years of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results I have finally decided to call in an expert. 30 self help books later I am still not the person I want to be. I feel like I am stuck and I want out! So I called Christy Farr, she is a life coach who I have featured on my radio show Progressive Parenting. And away we go!
Installment 4, Last session with Christie had me identifying the voice that tells me I suck. Whew, that was rough. I'm afraid to see what will fall out tonight but (deep breath) here we go. After years of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results I have finally decided to call in an expert. 30 self help books later I am still not the person I want to be. I feel like I am stuck and I want out! So I called Christy Farr, she is a life coach who I have featured on my radio show Progressive Parenting. And away we go!
Heal the Mother, Heal the Baby: Nutrition, Gut Health, the Enteric Nervous System & Breastfeeding
The internal terrain reflects itself in the external terrain in a myriad of ways that may well explain many breastfeeding problems. Gut health and integrity drives the nature of the enteric nervous system, thus the implications for well-being are significant. When the maternal body’s reaction to imbalance results in a pro-inflammatory response, a cascade of disease processes may result. Maternal health and well-being, post-partum depression, food allergies, milk supply, PCOS, tongue-tie, reflux, "high-need" infant behavior, slow growth, failure to thrive and numerous feeding difficulties may all find origins in the integrity and vitality of the mother’s internal terrain. In attending to the health of the maternal gut, while supporting the infant in his own healing, we may find that many breastfeeding problems are resolved both acutely and chronically. In a discussion of maternal gut health, the function of the enteric nervous system and the implications for infant gut integrity, we will come to a deeper understanding of why healing the mother's gut may well be integral to successfully addressing a wide array of breastfeeding difficulties. Join my GUest Jennifer Tow BFA, IBCLC as we discuss this important topic
This is our third installment and I have dropped the ball and need to face the music. Join Christy Farr my life coach. and I as we have a real life sit down and discuss how I am going to make the life changes I need
My guest is Jennifer Tow, BFA, IBCLC practices Holistic Lactation. Currently residing in Paris, she was in private practice for 12 years in CT, prior to which she coordinated a hospital-based peer counselor program. Through Intuitive Parenting Network, LLC and Intuitive Health Network, Jennifer relies on her 22 years of passionate information-gathering, education and training in holistic practices to provide holistic lactation consulting, parent education and mentoring to families. She offers workshops to parents and health care providers on topics related to infant feeding, attachment and holistic practices. She focuses on healing infant trauma, the inter-dependent relationship between maternal and infant gut health and the synergy of maternal-infant physiology, form and function, including tongue-tie. Having established a reputation for working with parents to resolve complex problems, Jennifer works with clients internationally, primarily through Skype. Tonights discussion is on Tongue-Tie (and also tongue tie)
Join Dr. Bob Sears as we discuss the uproar over TIME magazines cover photo of a 3 year old nursing. This cover has started the conversation about what is normal when it comes to breastfeeding. Attachment parenting has come under fire as being "extreme" or taxing for parents. Dr. Sears will talk about this story and answer questions you have regarding "extended" nursing.
The second installment of my real life attempt at getting unstuck. Christy Farr is my life coach. This is week two and our second session together. My life up till now has been me doing the same stuff over and over getting the same results.
After years of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results I have finally decided to call in an expert. 30 self help books later I am still not the person I want to be. I feel like I am stuck and I want out! So I called Christy Farr, she is a life coach who I have featured on my radio show Progressive Parenting. So here I am at the beginning of a new Journey for me. This first step has been so hard to make. I HATE asking for help. I HATE admitting I may need help, with anything including; lifting furniture, opening jars, or even breastfeeding!
But I've made that first step. Maybe it was hard to make because I knew if I did it I would have to share it. How can I go around telling parents they aren't alone and not share this journey of change with my readers/listeners? So I will be doing this under a magnifying glass, but I have made peace with that (gulp). Tonight will be my first show. Feel free to call in and cheer me on or share your thoughts.
Our guest tonight will be Dr Barbara Morrison. We will discuss what happens in hospitals and how it is not natural, it puts all births at higher risk. A woman's body can function very well on its own if left alone. How important it is for kangaroo care and breastfeeding to start immediately after birth. Check out her site at http://www.drbarbcnm.com/
Did you know... …90% of all childhood sexual abuse occurs by someone with whom the child knows and has a trusted, established relationship, not by a stranger.
…According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, statistics show that 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 10 boys are sexually exploited before they reach adulthood, yet less than 35% of those assaults are reported to the authorities.
…Childhood sexual abuse occurs among ALL socioeconomic, educational, racial, and cultural groups in the United States and in the world.
…In the majority of cases of childhood sexual abuse, most predators gain access to their victims by enticement and deception, seldom by using force. Pattie Fitzgerald of the Safely Ever After Program will be joining us and discussing ways to protect our children from sexual predators.
The Other Baby Book guides new and expecting mamas on a journey past “shoulds” and “musts,” back to the heart of true joy and connection. Massaro and Katz throw off the shackles of profit-driven companies and popular yet potentially harmful baby-rearing practices, and offer moms simple but profound ways to support the mother-baby relationship.
Marcy Axness, PhD—Author of Parenting for Peace: Raising the Next Generation of Peacemakers and a member of Mothering magazine’s online expert panel, Dr. Axness is a leading authority in the fields of early child development, adoption, prenatal and perinatal psychology and the neurobiology of attachment. She is a popular international speaker, has a private practice coaching parents-in-progress, and provides training for professionals about the latest human development research. She feels that one of her most important credentials is being mother to Ian, 24, and Eve, 21. Learn more at www.ParentingForPeace.com. We will be discussing her book Parenting for Peace and the Trust Birth Conference.
My guest tonight will birth consultant and author of Unassisted Childbirth, Laura Shanley. She joins me to discuss unassisted birth, orgasmic birth and the Trust Birth Conference. We also invite women who have experienced the power of orgasm while birthing to share their experience. To find out more information check her webpage. http://www.unassistedchildbirth.com
Tonight we get caught up on Nirvana Jennette, she was our guest on the Silent Ban on Breastfeeding show . Then she was telling us about her church and how she had been asked to leave because she was nursing her baby in church! She has since been excommunicated from said church and is now working hard to change legislation in Georgia regarding a mothers right to nurse her baby wherever she has the right to be. The Nurse-In is this Monday March the 5th at 10am in Atlanta Georgia.
Does the STRESS of parenting ever get you to the end of your rope? Are you ready to transform that stress into SUCCESS? My guest is Kathy Whitham, RN, Behavior Parenting Coach, draws her expertise from 30 years of raising three children, combined with a comprehensive range of experience in both traditional maternal-child nursing and holistic practice. Kathy specializes in helping parents feel calm and confident in the face of challenging behaviors in order to restore peace at home and build relationships that rock! Kathy believes children thrive in families where they feel safe, loved and are given a voice – no matter what their family looks like! You can find out more at:www.parentingbeyondwords.com Get your parenting questions together and join us live!
Tonight my guest is Dayna Martin. Dayna Martin has been at the forefront of the unschooling movement for the past decade. Author of, Radical Unschooling: A Revolution Has Begun, she’s been featured on Dr. Phil, CNN, Nightline, and Fox News several times. She was even used as an informational resource for Unschooling stories on the Discovery Channel, The Today Show and Our America on the OWN Network. She travels the world as the UnNanny, and is a featured speaker at the major unschooling conferences worldwide. Find out just what unschooling is, how it works and WHY you might want to do it yourself
On tonight's show I will be talking about VBACS. Vaginal Birth after Cesarean with Dr. Stuart Fischbein. We will discuss who should, where you should and more. Find out what the newest research says. Be sure to join us in our live chat room. Or call into the show live. Don't forget to join us after the show (copy this link to join us : http://www.vokle.com/series/23078-ppr-after-the-show) where we will be talking with Dr. Fischbein in greater detail about VBAC and we will be joined by ELizabeth Bachner, LM, CPM & L.Ac., who was voted DASC Midwife of the Year 2008, she is the owner of GraceFull Birthing.
What kind of Crazy title is that for a radio show? Well, on the show tonight I will be talking with Dayna Martin, unschooling mom, doula, and author of SEXY BIRTH. So of course we will be discussing all things unschooling and when you get two doulas together, you know we are going to talk about birth, new book or not.
Dayna Martin has been at the forefront of the unschooling movement for the past decade. Author of, Radical Unschooling: A Revolution Has Begun, she’s been featured on Dr. Phil, CNN, Nightline, and Fox News several times. She was even used as an informational resource for Unschooling stories on the Discovery Channel, The Today Show and Our America on the OWN Network. She travels the world as the UnNanny, and is a featured speaker at the major unschooling conferences worldwide.
As an unschooling parent, author, and advocate, Dayna has been featured and interviewed in hundreds of local, regional, and international television and radio pieces about Radical Unschooling over the last several years. She and her husband Joe appeared as the featured guests on Dr. Phil Show in November 2006 introducing Radical Unschooling to the world.
Join us on the show by calling in or join the live chat or tweet us your questions! (#progparentradio)
My guest tonight is Renee Beebe IBCLC, she has been helping women breastfeed for over 20 years. She volunteered with La Leche League for six years, taught breastfeeding classes and worked as a postpartum doula before she started her own business in 1996. We will be discussing common problems, the culprits and what you can do to help.
We will also be talking about the myths surrounding breastfeeding and answer your questions! You can find my guest at https://www.facebook.com/thesecond9months?sk=wall PHOTOS COURTESY OF www.sabrinabeanphotography.com
Emma Kwasnica is being harassed by Facebook (again) for posting photos of her nurslings. This despite Facebook's recent apology in the public media, saying this is against their policy. Message from Emma, who cannot post out from her own page:
I am blocked again. This time for THREE days. I had another photo reported and removed by Facebook overnight. "Sexually explicit" content. The photo that was flagged and deleted this night was in an album set to open for all folks to choose a profile picture. It was of two-year-old Anna, this time, smiling at the breast (still latched, but clearly giggling and loving her life --as it should be
Can this happen to you? What would you do if this happened to you. How is breastfeeding offensive? Join me as I discuss breastfeeding and the effects of social media.
Story after story has been emerging about women being asked to leave establishments across the nation for feeding their children. In spite of the fact that Forty-five states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands have laws that specifically allow women to breastfeed in any public or private location. On tonight's show we will be talking with Harley Jennette who was just recently kicked out of church AND told by the police that she could be arrested for indecent exposure for breastfeeding.. CONTRARY to the law. We will be joined by Emma Kwasnica founder of Human Milk 4 Human Babies. She is no stranger to "Breastist" attitudes as Emma Kwasnica is being harassed by Facebook again for posting photos of her nurslings. This despite Facebook’s recent apology in the public media, saying this is against their policy. Call into the show to share your opinions or stories or to ask a question.
Dr. Stuart Fischbein is a practicing obstetrician who is a strong supporter of patients rights to informed consent and refusal. He believes a patient has the right to choose her own path given true and not skewed informed consent. Following that tenet, just as a woman should be able to choose to have an elective c/section she should be able to choose not to have one, as well. He believes the American system of hospital based obstetric practice has been eroding those choices for women for quite some time. Due to concerns of economics, expediency and fears of litigation women are being coerced to make choices that may not be in their best interest. On this show we will be discussing Breech Birth. He believes that term breech presentation should be treated as just a variation of normal. And if selection criteria are met then informed consent and choice belong to the woman and her loved ones. While a hospital that respects autonomy would be an ideal place for these women to give birth that is not the current reality we live in. Choices are so extremely limited. That is just one of the most compelling reasons why another birthing option is so needed in America. I am so thrilled to speak with Dr. Fischbein! Join us live and call in with questions or to share your story!
What we experience at birth sets us up for how we deal with change n the future. Physical birth is a model for creativity our birth is our imprint on how we approach all aspects of creativity. On our show we will be talking to Rima star about how our births effect us. We will also be discussing how the Holiday season, Christmas especially can trigger feelings about birth. Rima Star, M.A., R.M.T. is founder of EFI Therapy (TM), Star Institute, education for birth, healing and creative living and developer of EFI Perinatal Massage Services. She is an educator and therapist with a private practice in Austin, Texas, and also offers licensing to become and EFI Practitioner.
We invite Jeanice Barcelo childbirth educator and childbirth educator trainer back on our program. To continue our discussion regarding the agenda behind hospital protocols. On our last show I was surprised to learn that many of the typical protocols that I've seen in the hospital have an underlying meaning/effect. On this show we will be discussing techniques of trauma-based mind control and how they mirror the protocols of Hospital Birth. When Jeanice is our guest you are sure to hear information you may have never heard before. Without a doubt this is a banquet as far as food for thought goes. Join us live!
Catching Babies is a 60-minute documentary that tells the story of women as they become midwives in El Paso, Texas. Kennasha, Jessica, Diana and Sandra are young modern women embarking on a journey toward the ancient profession of midwifery. They are struggling through one of the most demanding schools of midwifery in the country, Maternidad la Luz, which was designed to be stressful in order to push women to understand their own strength. Sandra's clinical studies go hand in hand with her spiritual studies as she learns the Mexica, indigenous Mexican, traditions around birth and pregnancy. The group bonds as sister-midwives in this transformative space, which gives birth to babies, mothers and midwives. They strive to change the world by changing the way babies are born. For more information on the documentary:http://www.iftiinproductions.com/sec/mll.html
My guest tonight is Jeanice Barcelo. Jeanice is a birth doula and childbirth educator, specializing in preconception education and the healing and prevention of birth trauma. She is an international speaker, a TV and radio show host, and the creator of the Birth of a New Earth Curriculum – a curriculum that encourages conscious procreation and stresses the benefits of doing preparatory work PRIOR TO THE CONCEPTION OF CHILDREN. She offers private counseling, doula support, educational seminars and teacher trainings, as well as workshops and programs designed especially for men. She can be reached through her website at:http://BirthofaNewEarth.com/.
My guest is Kansas City childbirth educator and birth attendant (doula), Adelheid Faith, she provides Pregnancy, labor, and postpartum support serving most every kind of birth including home, hospital, stllbirth/fetal demise, crisis, adoption and high risk births. On tonigt's show we will be discussing, stillbirth, and fetal demise. These unexpected outcomes are rare but do happen. Have you been faced with a loss? Do you know someone who has. What do you say, and more importantly what do you not say to a woman (family) who has experienced or will experience this overwhelming fact of life? We will discuss different types of loss and the universal hopelessness that surrounds this topic. It will be hard but I am glad we are discussing this. It's important for doulas and care providers to know what to do and say and advise.
Your Pediatrician may be considered a professional, but a professional in what area? Does he know the things you need him to know to take care of your children. Tonight's topic just may give you some questions to ask when choosing the doctor who will be in charge of your child's health...... My guest is Susan Markel, M.D. She is a board-certified pediatrician who has a private consultative practice specializing in parent coaching and child health. A graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Dr. Markel became a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1981, and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) in 1997. Dr. Markel's philosophy of natural parenting empowers mothers to trust in their maternal instincts, and consider themselves the "experts" in raising their own children. By espousing "mindful parenting", she has allowed mothers to acknowledge and celebrate the joy of parenting.
We will be discussing Breastfeeding, bedsharing, vaccines, unnecessary proceedure immediately following birth and much more.
My guests will be Leticia Moran, owner operator of Butterfly Elements. Leticia is a Doula, and Whole Birth® Yoga Instructor.We will also be joined by Robin Sale founder of Whole Birth ® Resources in 1999. Robin is a Childbirth Educator/Counselor, Perinatal Hypnotherapist and Prenatal Yoga Educator. She brings over 23 years of experience supporting women and their families during the childbearing years to honor the sacred and vital work of welcoming our children into the world. Whole Birth Yoga is a synthesis of Robin's long time love of yoga, birth, dance, meditation, the natural world and her observation over many years of how these things have supported women to cross the bridge into motherhood. In Whole Birth® Yoga and Support classes,so many wonderful kinds of connections are made. Women deepen their connection to their own bodies, finding more comfort while they experience the rapid and unfamiliar changes of pregnancy. They learn to trust the body's innate wisdom for birth. Women connect with their hearts and minds as they settle into the calm stillness of the meditative practice. We will also be discussing the upcoming Red Tent (& what they are) and the play BIRTH by Karen Brody and how Doulas in Austin are being BOLD!
Suzanne Arms is a familiar name to many from her 7 groundbreaking books (on pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and adoption), films, photographs, and the hundreds of talks she has given at conferences worldwide since 1975. She has been an inspiration behind the Birth Movement. Her 2nd book, Immaculate Deception was named a New York Times Best Book of the Year and inspired thousands of midwives, nurses and physicians, as well as parents-to-be. Arms is an advocate for holistic, sustainable health policies and practices and conscious parenting
Tonight my guest are Kyle and Naomi Thomas are the proud parents of two boys and are expecting a little surprise for Christmas that they cannot wait to meet. Kyle comes from an extensive background in business and marketing and Naomi is a childbirth educator and birth doula. Together, with their mutual passion for families educating themselves on pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding they founded Brio Birth, a new childbirth education organization that has the vision to reach 1,000,000 mothers, fathers, babies and their families each and every year. Tonight we are also joined by Arp Laszlo he is 3rd-time father and empowered birth activist. He & his wife shared the birth of their 2nd child with the world in Orgasmic Birth. He is currently looking forward to the birth of their 4th child this fall.
Tomorrow’s parents are faced with a daunting world, and a feeling that maybe they can’t really make a difference—but they can, through empowered birth & parenting for peace! The structure & circuitry of our brains is wired in direct response to our relational experiences, beginning in the womb and significantly during birth—a brief window of time when critical systems in the brain and body of both mother and baby organize in ways that will affect them lifelong My guest will be Marcy Axness, Ph.D., is an early development specialist who writes and speaks internationally on parenting, society, and the needs of children. She is an authority in such wide-ranging fields as neurobiology (brain development), prenatal and developmental psychology, attachment theory, and consciousness research. Marcy’s particular specialization is in very early development— beginning even before conception—and she is one of the world’s few experts in prenatal /neonatal issues in adoption.
A repeat of a show from our ON THE AIR DAYS at 88.1 KFCF in California! I Speak with Dr. Don Fields of Yosemite Pediatrics and Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy..Imagine and entire episode dedicated to all things Poop! Yes, POOP! The weird thing about being a parent is just how much poop becomes a huge part of your life. #2 is the number one problem or most questioned topics by new parents. Learn more about poop than you ever though you wanted to know. What's coming out says alot about what's going on inside. Learn about your baby's digestive tract, and probiotics role(s)...
As part of Empowered Birth Week I will be talking about birth films making a difference!
A special edition of Progressive Parenting. I will be speaking to Debra Pascali Bonaro about Empowered Birth, what it means to her and how women everywhere can have an empowered birth, and how we can advocate for ourselves and eachother as advocates and sisters on this planet. Debra is Co-Chair of the International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative, which works in collaboration with global leaders and groups to reduce maternal and infant mortality and improve care for mothers, babies, and families. She serves on the Board of Directors for Childbirth Connection and is a DONA-approved doula trainer. She coauthored Nurturing Beginnings: Mother Love’s Guide to Postpartum Home Care for Doulas and Outreach Workers and received Lamaze International’s Elizabeth Bing Award in 2002.
It is easier to be emotionally responsive when you feel in balance. Create a support network, set realistic goals, put people before things, and don't be afraid to say "no". Recognize individual needs within the family and meet them to the greatest extent possible without compromising your physical and emotional health. Be creative, have fun with parenting, and take time to care for yourself. My guest is Life coach
My guest this Monday night is,Molly Henry is a Certified Positive Discipline Lead Trainer. She is the Human Growth & Development and Parent Program Coordinator at Abintra Montessori School in Nashville, TN. She has led Positive Discipline classes and faculty training programs since 2001. Molly earned a degree in Psychology with Secondary Education from Vanderbilt University. She is a Planned Parenthood trained Sexuality/Human Growth and Development educator and co-developer of a parenting curriculum entitled "The Birds and the Bees the Positive Discipline Way." The mother of two, Molly has a deep passion for parenting and is a member of the Attachment Parenting International Resource Advisory Council. Molly is also trained in Montessori early childhood education.
Positive discipline helps a child develop a conscience guided by his own internal discipline and compassion for others. Discipline that is empathetic, loving, and respectful strengthens the connection between parent and child.
Show # 6 in our 8 week series spotlighting Attachment Parenting is PROVIDE, CONSISTENT LOVING CARE.
My guest is Dr. Isabelle Fox. Dr. Fox is the author of Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-home-Parent. She has degrees from Radcliffe College and University of California Los Angeles and has been a Clinical Psychotherapist specializing in Child Development for over 30 years. She is also an Associate at the Western Psychological Center in Encino, California. She is also the author of From Diapers to Diplomas and Goodbye Diapers, Goodbye Bottle, Goodbye Blanket. She has three children and seven grandchildren and was a Stay-At-Home Parent for 10 years.
Babies and young children have an intense need for the physical presence of a consistent, loving, responsive caregiver: ideally a parent. Daily care and playful, loving interactions build strong bonds. By providing consistent, loving care from early infancy, parents strengthen their relationship with their child and build a healthy attachment. If neither parent can be a full-time caregiver, then a child needs someone who is not only consistent and loving, but has formed a bond with them and consciously provides care in a way that strengthens the attachment relationship.
A Special Edition of Progressive Parenting, Barbara Pellegrini Rivera is my guest. We will be talking about the upcoming Birth Awareness Week. It will be September 5th-12th. Birth is an exciting and sometimes frightening time in parents lives. Where does the fear come from. How can women take back birth? How can we change 100 years of influence? Join us in our live chat or call in live!
Our topic is about sleep."Is your baby sleeping through the night yet?" is often the first question people ask a new parent. The truth is that most babies do not sleep through the night, yet it is a myth that is perpetuated from generation to generation. Babies have needs at night just as they do during the day; from hunger, loneliness, and fear, to feeling too cold or too hot. They need the reassurance of a loving parent to feel secure during the night. Join me as I discuss the topics of co sleeping, bed-sharing and the myth of sleep training. Later in the show I will be joined by Bill and Martha Sears. After raising eight children and practicing pediatric medicine for more than 30 years, they have answered questions from thousands of parents. Millions more have sought their advice through their 40+ pediatric books, articles in parenting magazines, and our appearances on more than 100 television programs such as 20/20, Donahue, Good Morning America, Oprah, CBS This Morning, CNN, NBC's Today Show and Dateline.
This afternoon I will be talking with Penny Schlanser. She was asked to move while nursing at her local gym, Pure Fitness for Women.They asked that she nurse elsewhere (locker room). Hear the rest of the story on the air live, call in or join the chat live. We will be discussing what happened and what rights nursing moms have in Texas and in other states.
Babies are born with urgent and intense needs and depend completely on others to meet them. Nurturing touch helps meet a baby's need for physical contact, affection, security, stimulation and movement. Parents who choose a nurturing approach to physical interactions with their children promote development of healthy attachments. Even as children get older their need to stay connected through touch remains strong. I will be talking with Janet Jendron, President of the Board of Directors, she has been a long-time supporter of API. She served for eleven years on the LLLI Board of Directors and many years on the LLLI Alumnae Association Council. Janet has also served on numerous other non-profit Boards, including church-related and wish granting organizations. She has written articles and spoken at conferences throughout the United States on a wide variety of issues related to her non-profit and paid work. She is the mother of four children ages 25 to 33
Dr.Marsden Wagner will be our very special guest on Progressive Parenting. We will be discussing the safety of home birth, and informed choice. He spent 15 years Director, Women's and Children's Health, World Health Organization (responsible for Women's and Children's Health in 45 industrialized countries). He's been in many documentaries including, PREGNANT IN AMERICA, THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN, and ORGASMIC BIRTH. He's also the author of BORN IN THE USA:How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First. I am so excited to have him on the show as he is an inspiration to myself and so many other mother and baby advocates. We are also speaking with Lisa Gartin RN, she is a pediatric nurse, doula, childbirth educator and mother of four children. THIS IS EPISODE IS A REPLAY FROM WHEN WE HAD A SHOW ON AN AM STATION! SO NO LIVE CALLS TONIGHT (SORRY). Any questions about this show can be sent to progressiveparentingradio@gmail.com
Our topic this week is Responding with Sensitivity. This Principle according to the founders is one of the most important. It is the foundation that strengthens all the other principles. It is the foundation of developing a secure attachment relationship with your children. Our guest this week is Lu Hanessian. Lu is the author of acclaimed book “Let the Baby Drive: Navigating the Road of New Motherhood” (2004), an award-winning journalist, former NBC anchor/host (“Real Life”; “Unsolved Mysteries”) and Discovery Health Channel host of “Make Room for Baby,” parent educator and national speaker. For five years, she hosted The Science Show, syndicated in 110 countries.
A special evening with two amazing women! I will be talking to Martha Sears, and Ann Sinnott! Our topic is Feeding with Love and Respect, the second Principle of Attachment Parenting. This is week two of our Eight week series highlighting the Principles of Attachment Parenting. We will be discussing breastfeeding, bottle feeding and nutrition. Don't miss it! If you find you love what you are hearing be sure to donate what you can to ATTACHMENT PARENTING INTERNATIONAL by clicking on the donate page on our site, or skip ahead and click here to give. Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page.
Attachment Parenting International (API) is a wonderful organization that advocates on the behalf of children and parents everywhere. For the next eight weeks we will be looking at each of API's eight principles. This week, or week one, is a look at Principle 1; Prepare Yourself for Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting. Our guests are the founders of API, Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker.
On tonights show we will be catching up on on past topics and letting you know about what's new and coming up! Tonight we will be talking about Nestle, Breastfeeding in Public, CPS and parents rights, Attachment Parenting and more!
Mary Jackson is our guest tonight. We will be discussing how we are born and what it means. Birth trauma, unnecesareans, peaceful even orgasmic births. How do they effect us? How do we have the birth we want, how do we avoid the ones we don't. Mary Jackson is the mother of 2 children who were born at home with midwives, has been married since 1987 and has been in 9 books and 5 movies. Mary has been a home birth Midwife since 1975. She has attended over 2000 births in the Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Ojai, California areas. she attended 63 consecutive births at home with no transfers from home to hospital, all labors less than 14 hours except 3, all babies nursing and no circumcisions.
Tonights show will be full of passionate people working towards things they believe in. At the top of the hour we will be joined by Lloyd Schofield, now famous for introducing the anti-circumcision bill in San Francisco. Later in the show I will be speaking to a rep. from WE ARE ALL HABIBA. Call in, we'd love to hear from you!
Tonight I will be talking to Jennifer Rue McLellan of Plus Size Mommy Memoirs Blog, & Plus Size Doula Connections. Plus size pregnant women were the topic of multiple news articles last week, including OB-GYNs in Florida refusing to work with larger women, and plus size women having more “necessary” interventions during birth. Tonight we will be discussing the TRUTH about Plus Size Birth!
In this last chapter we hear the second half of the radio program Birth. A documentary about the practices and perceptions of birth in America. Starting with early perceptions, we move through the process of birth beginning before labor, continuing during labor, and following the actual event. With a multiplicity of voices woven with sound we examine the process of birth from an emotional, physical and philosophical perspective. Later in our program we will be joined by Alyse and John and hear their birth story. We've followed them through their last few weeks of pregnancy. Their baby was born last week! We will get the low down on birth in a hospital by a couple who still has the memory fresh in their mind. We will learn about the realities of hospital protocol and how parents can fight for what they want/need. As their doula this is an exciting opportunity to learn. As a person this is an honor.
During tonights show we listen to BIRTH: A one-hour documentary about the practices and perceptions of birth in America. Starting with early perceptions, we move through the process of birth beginning before labor, continuing during labor, and following the actual event. With a multiplicity of voices woven with sound we examine the process of birth from an emotional, physical and philosophical perspective. Later we are joined by Alyse and John, she is still in early labor, she and John share their journey with our listeners as they prepare to meet their first child! THIS IS BIRTH JUNKIE RADIO AT IT'S FINEST!
Last week we talked to Alyse and John, an expectant couple, (pregnant with their first baby) about what it means to hire a Doula. Why did they do it? How was it going so far? Were they teased about it? Since then Alyse found she was dilated 1cm and 30% effaced and has been having Braxton Hicks for days now. If they haven't had their baby yet we will talk about the realities of early labor! Using the rebozo in early labor and more! This is the real deal baby! Join us!
We are not sure if this is a radio first, but it is definitely a first for us. This is the first installment of a three week series covering the last weeks of pregnancy for first time parents. Host, Gena Kirby, who is also a Doula, will share (over the air) what actually happens between a pregnant couple and the guardian of their journey. This is reality radio at it's best! Make sure you listen to the show live and call in with the questions you would have if you were in their situation. In the third installment (if baby cooperates) we will be discussing the birth and how these new parents feel about their experience.
My guest on tonights show will be Kaitlin Rose Parmenter of Bring Birth Home. BBH is a great resource for parents wanting to learn more about their options outside a hospital or birth center. Hospital birth is fairly new to us, as far as the history of man is concerned. To put this in perspective name the first US president who was born in a hospital. More and more women are choosing to have their babies at home. Later in the show we are joined by Mrs. Birth Without Fear!
Tonight, I will be speaking with Kerry Novick, co-author of the book, Emotional Muscle. What does it mean to be a strong parent, or a strong child, and how do you build that strength?
On this show, I will be interviewing Ryan Richardson and his brother, David, who are currently starting production on the film documentary "One More Girl". This film will cover the controversial vaccine Guardisil and it's alleged side-effects which could include over 88 deaths.
Tonight I will be talking to Crystal Smith of the Achilles Effect and Melissa Wardy of Pigtail Pals (Redefining Girly). We will be discussing the pop culture environment that surrounds boys introduces them to a world where traditionally masculine traits—like toughness, aggression, and stoicism—are highly esteemed and where female influence is all but absent. Join us!
Tonights show is a follow up to last weeks show on the IMPORTANCE OF SEEING NURSING IN PUBLIC. We honored to welcome back Emma Kwasnica tonight of Organizer of Human Milk for Human Babies. We will be discussing how all over the world women are impeded from protecting their own and their babies’ health, and often survival, because of factors beyond their control. Why, after about a million years of survival, has one of the principal evolutionary characteristics by which we identify ourselves as mammals become so damaged?
I hope you will join us!
On tonights show I will be talking to Emma Kwasnica the Montreal-based mother and breast-feeding activist, organizer of human milk for human babies.Human Milk 4 Human Babies (HM4HB) is a global network represented by community pages for each state/province/country. These pages provide a space where families in need can connect with women who have milk to share. HM4HB affirms that human milk is the biological norm for human infants and children. HM4HB does not support the sale of human milk. In light of the horrendous disasters in Japan, we are seeing how formula can fail a society when clean water is not readily available. Tonight we will be discussing the importance of SEEING other women nursing and how it can help NORMALIZE/MAINSTREAM nursing your baby. The more we hide it away[breastfeeding], classify it as obscene, shame mothers into covering up while feeding, and encourage women to retire to "private" rooms in order to breastfeed the baby, the less we see of it in public, and the less and less people are comfortable with the very idea of nursing in public. This is the sad reality, in this pathologically hyper-sexualized (yet sexually repressed...) North American culture of ours.
Tommy Corey will be my guest as we discuss THE SELF WORTH PROJECT.This humanitarianism project really brings peoples attention to all of the recent suicides. This is a project to let everyone know we are all the same and no one deserved to be broken down because of race, religion, body type, or life decision. God loves us and we should reflect that love onto our brothers and sisters. he Self-Worth Project's popularity is proof that feelings of insecurity are universal. Only a month old, the Project's Facebook page has over 4,000 friends, and growing. Tommy has accepted invitations to photograph subjects at Chico's Stonewall Alliance Center and is working on funding to take the project to Humboldt, Seattle and San Francisco. He would like to someday compile the images into a book to benefit non-profit organizations.
A pioneer in Menstrual Empowerment, DeAnna L’am is a recognized world expert in helping women and girls make coming-of-age easier, and womanhood richer. Like many women, DeAnna struggled with PMS and for many years viewed her period as a bother and a nuisance. In 1992 she began a personal journey toward embracing her monthly cycle, which led her to “reverse the curse!” Having already been a trained coach and facilitator at the time, she called her first Menstrual Empowerment circle in 1994. The response was overwhelming, and the journey embarked upon — profound. In 1995 DeAnna coined the term ‘INNER MAIDEN’ as a result of recognizing the deep need in all women for soothing, healing, and reclaiming the adolescent girl within, who may have never been welcomed into womanhood. In Israel/ Palestine, her country of origin, DeAnna helped Jewish and Palestinian women surpass political, religious, and cultural differences by deeply bonding as cycling women. Since founding ‘Red Moon’ in 1994, DeAnna has been teaching nationally and internationally, empowering women to reclaim menstruation as source of inner guidance and spiritual renewal; coaching Moms in welcoming their coming-of-age daughters into womanhood with ease and comfort, and training women to hold Red Tents in their communities. DeAnna is author of Becoming Peers – Mentoring Girls Into Womanhood and creator of The M.A.D.E.N. Acts - 5 Steps To Making Coming Of Age easier, And Womanhood Richer!
Tonight is part II of our II part show on the sexualization of our children. Tonight of my guest is Melissa Wardy of Pigtail Pals- Redefine Girly offers empowering products for girls (and girls at heart) that encourage girls to be smart, daring, and adventurous. Created by a mom who believes our daughters need to SEE and GROW with images of girls in action and achievement. Our Topic So Sexy So Soon is based on how constantly, American children are exposed to a barrage of sexual images in television, movies, music and the Internet. They are taught young that buying certain clothes, consuming brand-name soft drinks and owning the right possessions will make them sexy and cool—and being sexy and cool is the most important thing. Young men and women are spoon-fed images that equate sex with violence, paint women as sexually subservient to men and encourage hooking up rather than meaningful connections. The result is that kids are having sex younger and with more partners than ever before. Eating disorders and body image issues are common as early as grade school. There is nothing wrong with a young person's natural sexual awakening, but it is wrong to allow a young person's sexuality to be hijacked by corporations who want them as customers. We will talk about how parents can limit children's exposure to commercialized sex, and how parents can engage kids in constructive, age-appropriate conversation about sex and the media.
Tonight my guest is Melissa Wardy of Pigtail Pals- Redefine Girly offers empowering products for girls (and girls at heart) that encourage girls to be smart, daring, and adventurous. Created by a mom who believes our daughters need to SEE and GROW with images of girls in action and achievement. Our Topic So Sexy So Soon, Constantly, American children are exposed to a barrage of sexual images in television, movies, music and the Internet. They are taught young that buying certain clothes, consuming brand-name soft drinks and owning the right possessions will make them sexy and cool—and being sexy and cool is the most important thing. Young men and women are spoon-fed images that equate sex with violence, paint women as sexually subservient to men and encourage hooking up rather than meaningful connections. The result is that kids are having sex younger and with more partners than ever before. Eating disorders and body image issues are common as early as grade school. There is nothing wrong with a young person's natural sexual awakening, but it is wrong to allow a young person's sexuality to be hijacked by corporations who want them as customers. We will talk about how parents can limit children's exposure to commercialized sex, and how parents can engage kids in constructive, age-appropriate conversation about sex and the media.
This Evening we will be celebrating our LAST 30 minute show! Thanks to our new sponsor MAMA WISE we will be moving to a one hour format next MONDAY! Tonight we will be discussing Lobby Day at the Capitol and moving on later to a brief discussion about ACOG's (American College of Obstetrician and Gynecologists) NEW stance on homebirth
Who is Responsible for your Pregnancy, Birth and newborn? What does ACOG say Informed Consent is a process and not just a signature on a form. Tonight Doula and Midwifery Assistant/Midwife in Training, Margaret Burns joins us as we discuss this important topic
Everywhere expectant couples look from television to movies to magazines and books, they are most likely going to run into images of pregnancy labor and birth as negative experiences to be suffered. Rarely are couples given positive images of birth. Tonight we will discuss what birth can really be like and try and figure out why the drama of reality baby shows is so enticing! We will also be discussing Lifetime televisions new show ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE
Tonight we will discuss the seduction of inducing labor, why it can sound tempting and why we should avoid it! If the FDA doesn't approve PITOCIN for induction why is it used? If CYTOTEC has the depiction of a pregnant woman with a red line through her then WHY DO O.B.s use it? Find out tonight!
Your Pediatrician may be considered a professional, but a professional in what area? Does he know the things you need him to know to take care of your children. Tonight's topic just may give you some questions to ask when choosing the doctor who will be in charge of your child's health......
I will sit down with local birth advocates to talk about the state of birth, here in Austin, Texas. We hope you join us for our inaugural show on blogtalkradio. We are excited to have progressive parenting back on the air, and would like to give an extra warm welcome to our old listeners from KFCF "Free Speech Radio".