The Elephant Birth

See the elephant tribe give birth. This elephant mother moves instinctively. Watch her legs. She isn’t trying to kick the baby. She is easing the stretching she feels in her hips and the weight she feels bearing down into her upper thighs. I may be heady to define why she moves this way, but I’ve […]

Marketing Birth

Hospitals spend millions to draw parents each year. What are we in the natural birth and home birth movement doing to make birth “as nature intended” attractive to parents? Today I attended a Writers’ Festival in my town’s city hall. That’d be Bloomington, Minnesota.Marketing You and Your Book was a panel discussion that lured me […]