Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 11 days 14 hours 26 minutes
*Most people get into birth work because they had a very negative birth experience. That's not my story. I became a doula in 2001, long before it was a common term.
*Then, from about ages 24-29, I apprenticed with a home birth midwife, mostly to the Amish community.
*It was during this time that I became aware of just how common fertility challenges and miscarriages are...
MARYN GREEN has been attending women as a midwife since 2009; first as a licensed midwife and now as a spiritual midwife that helps facilitate the ceremonies of birth and mothering for aligned women. Maryn is well known for her international association, the Indie Birth Association (indiebirth.org), which serves and educates women and midwives all over the world...
LOCAL EDITION EPISODE!
I've been a pseudo-stepmom to my boyfriend's two kids since entering their lives five years ago. We waited a long while before I even met his now 18-year-old daughter and now 12-year-old son.
We've very much taken everyone else's perspectives and experiences into consideration when it has come to the pace of our relationship...
LOCAL EPISODE!
First time I ever did a drug I was 5 years old. My father tried to rape me when I was 11 yrs old. My mother tried to beat me when I was 12yo. My brother and I were on meth when I was 14 yo and he tried to have a weird romantic relationship with me. I left home at 16 yo.
I say all that so you know where I came from with how I grew up and the parenting skills I started with...
Here are some tips to dispel the myths of the miserable divorce, how to talk to children and promote a good divorce, which is one in which the children come first:
● Show your success and happiness with your head held high. Attend your children’s events and school meetings with your ex, gracefully acknowledge your children’s time spent with your ex as an important time for development for your children, and focus on self-care for yourself...
SPECIAL RELEASE LOCAL EPISODE!
- not a parent yet… but becoming one, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, financially, relationally
- childless doula / I’ve helped many people become parents but haven’t gone through the experience personally yet
- I’ve become a parent to many other things / nanny / friends kids (allo-parenting), cat(s), business(s)
- becoming a parent to my mom as she ages
Emily is also the Executive Director...
After several miscarriages, we took the in vitro route.
Even before Gabriel was born, he was saddled with multiple disabilities (physical, mental, genetic), so I like to discuss the problems for parents in similar situations when navigating their attempts to secure assistance, services, or equipment for children in need.
It's my hope that our journey in this maze will help others as they begin their own...
- I am a mom of two kids, ages 7 and 3 at the time of the podcast
- For me, one of the hardest parenting transitions was maintaining a sense of self as a working parent, and finding time for the things important to me. Travel was always a big one.
- Before kids, travel was how I stayed grounded and inspired and connected to my dreams and life goals. It was how I reduced stress, and cleared my head...
SPECIAL RELEASE LOCAL EPISODE!
I am a homebirth midwife and mother to a 2.8 year old, Max!
I completed my apprenticeship and began my primary practice in the middle of a global pandemic!
I experienced pregnancy and postpartum in 2020-2021 while I was still actively in my homebirth apprenticeship and supporting doula clients...
SPECIAL RELEASE LOCAL EPISODE!
I quit my career for Motherhood
13 yrs as an Architect to Stay at Home Mom
Mom died before I knew I was pregnant the first time
6 yrs of severe Postpartum Depression
This Stay at Home Mom thing wasn’t for me!
Lessons learned: all about Self-Care (no one is going to care for me except me)...