Category archives: Education

California Midwives Alert - Laws Are Changing!

I received this email from Constance Rock, President of the California Midwives Association around 2am this morning. There is a legislative initiative that is brewing in Calif[...]

PAM & San Onofre, a personal experience

A little over a year ago I was on a business trip, a conference at the Sheratan hotel in Carlsbad. It just so happens to be less than a block walk to the Legoland Park California[...]

Pregnancy Practice

Many times in our culture, when a woman gets pregnant, the immediate focus goes directly to her baby and the birth. It’s almost as if the wholeness of the pregnancy and the woman [...]

The Dadchelor Party

In just the last 24 months the term Dadchelor Party has been heard across the USA, radio, TV, and magazine articles. A lot of new families to-be as well as experienced mom’s and[...]

Diplomacy and Human Rights in the Labor Room,The Answer to Change

I recently spent one entire week in the company, of midwives, physicians, doulas, and birth professionals from all over the United States and from countries such as Korea, Vietnam[...]

Raising my Bébé in France

I was very much involved in the Kundalini yoga community in Los Angeles. There, it was considered normal for a mother to nurse her baby, co-sleep and carry the infant as often as p[...]

Do You Know Who Kids in the House is?

Meet Kids in the House, a new educational video site about parenting. Search from a growing library of 8,000 easy-to-understand short videos that provide solutions to parenting cha[...]

Bringing Up Bébé: A Critique

I am grappling with writing a review of Pamela Druckerman's, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting. Because I am half French, lived in boar[...]

The Daddy Delivery Day Game Bag

Calling all expecting dads. I am sure that you have a lot of friends and family asking you if you have your “Daddy Bag” packed and ready to go? If you are like me, it took awhile[...]

How To Have a Better VBAC

by Gina Crosley-Corcoran If you read my first VBAC story, you’ll see what a fight I had on my hands. My OB, and the hospital staff, worked against my intentions for a normal bir[...]