Jennifer Nelson

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Home birth is a great option for many families...

Just one more way we are making sure birthworkers have the skills they need!

True midwifery is entirely about relationships at its core... I was brought to tears that a young girl would take the time and effort to make this art for me after welcoming her baby sister yesterday. She purposed, without prompting, to let me know that she loved me! What a beautiful world we would live in if we chose to so transparently share our love with those around us without fear of how that might be perceived!... The second picture (she explained) was me with her, holding the same heart. At 5 years old, she shows me that she securely knows that we both love for the same people...each other, her mother, and her brand new baby sister. I pray she has witnessed how she deserves to be treated by a care provider, and I pray she always experiences being respected and genuinely cherished by those who "care" for her. THIS IS MIDWIFERY! THIS is my why.

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Lavender has been used for centuries and has so many benefits and uses. Here are just a few. Which are you most excited to try? If you’ve tried any, which do you already love?

"These are the loud lies of infant sleep that our culture repeats from one generation of new mothers to the next, as if on autopilot."

How do you talk about your cycle? Is it your moontime? Aunt Flo? My fav is "Shark week"!

'THE WHITECHAPEL WOMAN' (2017) #BirthUndisturbed A young English doctor in 1911 gazes in fascination at a poor woman of whom he was to write with vivid recollec...tion 30 years later. "For the first time I had been refused when offering chloroform... shyly she turned to me from the window that burst the first light of dawn and said ‘It didn’t hurt. It wasn’t meant to, was it, doctor?’" This woman's words, in her Cockney accent, lead the young Dr Grantly Dick-Read to explore that in the absence of fear, the body's natural endorphins can replace the stress hormones that cause pain in childbirth - what science was later to name as oxytocin and adrenalin. He went on to write the most influential book on childbirth of the last century, 'Childbirth Without Fear' in 1942, with the passage describing the encounter becoming famously enshrined in birth philosophy. The window was broken, rain pouring in, the bed had no proper covering the room was lit by one candle stuck in the top of a beer bottle on the mantelshelf, my patient covered in sacks a neighbour had brought in a jug of water and a basin. I felt compelled by the words on his page, a book that helped influence and empower my own change in attitude to childbirth, to make Dick-Read's cinematic memory into a photo at Dennis Severs’ House - a ‘living museum’ of Victorian London. With inspiration from the composition of painting ‘The Doctor’ (1890) by Sir Luke Fildes, the Whitechapel woman is brought back to life - she whose humble influence unknowingly catalysed a man’s insistence of listening to women at their bedside - and that our modern culture of increasingly machine-reliant, birth depersonalisation may learn again from. "It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering, as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who desires above all things to be fully aware of her senses and the final reward of her efforts" Grantly Dick-Read Video on FB https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156923480908532&id=45033403531 http://www.birthundisturbed.com/the-whitechapel-woman #history #london #childbirthwithoutfear #birth #woman #documentary #motherhood #baby

Comment below with some of your favorite essential oil fall scents and ways you use them!

You have to try this pumpkin smoothie! It’s one of my fall favorites and a fun way to incorporate dTERRA On Guard Protective Blend into the morning routine: https://www.doterra.com///recipe-on-guard-pumpkin-smoothie.

Wild Orange is one of the top-selling doTERRA essential oils. Its refreshing, sweet scent leaves you wanting more. Comment your favorite ways to use Wild Orange below.

Get ready for the holidays with all the phenomenal deals going on this month!