A resource for your Indie midwifery school - labor guidance for natural childbirth, distilled from my own birth experiences with midwives and my 15 years as a prenatal counselor.
After a barbaric medically managed and medically contraindicated induced birth with my firstborn, I wanted to give birth at home the second time around.
My former husband was afraid of home births, so we compromised and I hired a nurse midwife for my second birth. No MD was involved but she also interrupted my natural labor by breaking my water, making me turn over and putting my feet in stirrups, which ruined my natural birth experience which I was managing beautifully up to that point. I gave birth to my last two children at home with lay midwives, vowing to never go into an overly medicalized hospital setting again.
Great stuff, Charles, and I'm excited to hear anything you'll wish to share about your experience at the Independent Convention in Austin next weekend.
I very much enjoyed your Weston Price interview. I keep coming back to not knowing how to be in relation with my partner’s family who so ardently defends the narrative. As my child’s one grandparent it’s heartbreaking to feel as though we can’t make sense of our divergent realities in a way that allows each to feel seen and respected. I can’t help but worry that all our bumbling along is hurting children. What do we owe the children in how we navigate relationships? Going along with this seems like a direct attack on children and the dogma is so hard to break through, where does the authentic lie? How do we authentically protect our children while not breaking all ties with those who can’t/won’t see the multitudes? What if the mob morality mentality is in our home? How do we accept and love the divine in others when they’re part of this mob?
Charles, I just listened to your interview on “Living 4D” and loved when about 3/4 through you cut to the chase. The essence of that has infused my day.
I too was infused with energy by that conversation. As I continue to embody communicating through the new story, it’s helpful to hear how it unfolds in all those different containers, and there was some great nuance in the conversation with Paul that came through and I personally came away with new and useful ways of walking the path. Thanks for sharing out all those links!
I appreciated your interview with Paul Chek. Maybe the smaller audience is the most viable toward living in truth. Something to think about and contrary to narratives at play of reach, metrics and impact. Your groundedness is inspiring.
Charles, there’s human blood running through the veins of human life at just four weeks old.
This crowning achievement of life and evolution, human life, is ineffably mesmerizing, special, magnificent even, especially when it is contrasted with the miracle of the fabric of reality. The universe could have been formed and exist without life, without us. There could be nothingness instead of this reality. And in fact, as far we know, there’s no life in this boundless universe other than us. There are actually two miracles here plain for all to see if we take our blinders off, and hold this universe and all life in it, sacred.
How can anyone be so tempted by ego, by selfishness, so mesmerized and blinded by one’s own life project and put this ineffable sacredness to an end?
Please reconsider your take on abortion. It was supposed to be rare, when the life of the mother was endangered. It is now used as a time machine, as if to be taken back before the moment sexual passion overtook one’s temperance, when the possibility of birth was ignored just to experience the high of an orgasm.
Ending a human life on any other terms is patently demonic, Charles. If we doubt the existence of God, or at least a benevolent one, how can we doubt the existence of Evil? We see it all around us, within us even. We must stand against it through love. Love will dispel the lies of the abortion industry, of the socioengineering racist aims of depopulation through abortion which is also eugenics.
Because it should be patently obvious there’s an an agenda of depopulation. We can see our food and waterways poisoned with all kinds of carcinogenics, herbicides, hormone disruptors. But yes, our scientific, skeptical minds debate our own intuitions and we conclude is all circumstance; there’s no depopulation agenda, no power elite wanting to make us infertile. It’s all just a string of unfortunate events which have led to this point.
But, perhaps, could we be dealing with an Evil so stealthy, so pervasive yet undetectable, that we miss the forest for the trees? Could we be dealing with an Evil that wishes our destruction, to destroy every single human life, even at the womb? Could Peter have been right? That “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms”?
If you have never been 14, pregnant through incest, or a woman of any age, pregnant due to rape, you really aren't in a moral position to make decisions that might well ruin their lives.
But, perhaps, could we be dealing with an Evil so stealthy, so pervasive yet undetectable, that we miss the forest for the trees? Could we be dealing with an Evil that wishes our destruction, to destroy every single human life, even at the womb? Could Peter have been right? That “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms”?
A resource for your Indie midwifery school - labor guidance for natural childbirth, distilled from my own birth experiences with midwives and my 15 years as a prenatal counselor.
"Breathe, massage, relax." The mantra to keep in mind - when stressed we forget except what was practiced and is simple. The uterus is a really strong muscle doing really hard work, relax and let it do its thing. (The nutshell.) https://www.peace-is-happy.org/forum/peace-is-childbirth/for-a-more-peaceful-childbirth-breathe-massage-relax
After a barbaric medically managed and medically contraindicated induced birth with my firstborn, I wanted to give birth at home the second time around.
My former husband was afraid of home births, so we compromised and I hired a nurse midwife for my second birth. No MD was involved but she also interrupted my natural labor by breaking my water, making me turn over and putting my feet in stirrups, which ruined my natural birth experience which I was managing beautifully up to that point. I gave birth to my last two children at home with lay midwives, vowing to never go into an overly medicalized hospital setting again.
Thanks! I will share this with my daughter who is 36 weeks pregnant with her first and wants to go all natural,
I think your idea in the first post is unique and brilliant. As are you. Thank you for marrying lightness with seriousness. A breath of fresh air 😌
Great stuff, Charles, and I'm excited to hear anything you'll wish to share about your experience at the Independent Convention in Austin next weekend.
I very much enjoyed your Weston Price interview. I keep coming back to not knowing how to be in relation with my partner’s family who so ardently defends the narrative. As my child’s one grandparent it’s heartbreaking to feel as though we can’t make sense of our divergent realities in a way that allows each to feel seen and respected. I can’t help but worry that all our bumbling along is hurting children. What do we owe the children in how we navigate relationships? Going along with this seems like a direct attack on children and the dogma is so hard to break through, where does the authentic lie? How do we authentically protect our children while not breaking all ties with those who can’t/won’t see the multitudes? What if the mob morality mentality is in our home? How do we accept and love the divine in others when they’re part of this mob?
Charles, I just listened to your interview on “Living 4D” and loved when about 3/4 through you cut to the chase. The essence of that has infused my day.
I too was infused with energy by that conversation. As I continue to embody communicating through the new story, it’s helpful to hear how it unfolds in all those different containers, and there was some great nuance in the conversation with Paul that came through and I personally came away with new and useful ways of walking the path. Thanks for sharing out all those links!
I read the original in entirety. Shaking my head that you had to clarify.
Love your philosophical ponderings; they can be quite provocative. Keep ‘em coming.
I appreciated your interview with Paul Chek. Maybe the smaller audience is the most viable toward living in truth. Something to think about and contrary to narratives at play of reach, metrics and impact. Your groundedness is inspiring.
You're going to be in one of the most beautiful places this month, my hometown of Ashevile, NC. Wish I was there.
Charles, there’s human blood running through the veins of human life at just four weeks old.
This crowning achievement of life and evolution, human life, is ineffably mesmerizing, special, magnificent even, especially when it is contrasted with the miracle of the fabric of reality. The universe could have been formed and exist without life, without us. There could be nothingness instead of this reality. And in fact, as far we know, there’s no life in this boundless universe other than us. There are actually two miracles here plain for all to see if we take our blinders off, and hold this universe and all life in it, sacred.
How can anyone be so tempted by ego, by selfishness, so mesmerized and blinded by one’s own life project and put this ineffable sacredness to an end?
Please reconsider your take on abortion. It was supposed to be rare, when the life of the mother was endangered. It is now used as a time machine, as if to be taken back before the moment sexual passion overtook one’s temperance, when the possibility of birth was ignored just to experience the high of an orgasm.
Ending a human life on any other terms is patently demonic, Charles. If we doubt the existence of God, or at least a benevolent one, how can we doubt the existence of Evil? We see it all around us, within us even. We must stand against it through love. Love will dispel the lies of the abortion industry, of the socioengineering racist aims of depopulation through abortion which is also eugenics.
Because it should be patently obvious there’s an an agenda of depopulation. We can see our food and waterways poisoned with all kinds of carcinogenics, herbicides, hormone disruptors. But yes, our scientific, skeptical minds debate our own intuitions and we conclude is all circumstance; there’s no depopulation agenda, no power elite wanting to make us infertile. It’s all just a string of unfortunate events which have led to this point.
But, perhaps, could we be dealing with an Evil so stealthy, so pervasive yet undetectable, that we miss the forest for the trees? Could we be dealing with an Evil that wishes our destruction, to destroy every single human life, even at the womb? Could Peter have been right? That “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms”?
If you have never been 14, pregnant through incest, or a woman of any age, pregnant due to rape, you really aren't in a moral position to make decisions that might well ruin their lives.
These might all be justified exceptions when done on a case by case basis.
But, perhaps, could we be dealing with an Evil so stealthy, so pervasive yet undetectable, that we miss the forest for the trees? Could we be dealing with an Evil that wishes our destruction, to destroy every single human life, even at the womb? Could Peter have been right? That “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms”?
I would like to hear an interview about what it was like getting interviewed by Paul Chek. 😁
Thanks for the mention, Charles...and for the very useful earphone advice! 🙃