Wrapping Up 2022
It looks like I got the flu and missed missed recording for several Wednesdays. Now we are into the Holiday Season and many of you know how rare a spare moment is to get anything for yourself done… No worries though. I am on the mend and I look forward to my next episode in […]
Episode 9: Choosing Your Birth Environment
In 1957, my mother gave birth for the first time in a US army Hospital in Frankfurt Germany, she was all alone in a foreign country. Oddly they allowed her to smoke all through her labor but she was not allowed to drink or eat! She was not allowed to get up and move or […]
Episode 8: How Birth Works
In 2015 I had an interesting experience; that showed me many obstetricians do not really care about how birth works. In the 90’s I retired from Primary Homebirth Midwifery to pursue my long-term love of Interior Design. I went back to school and got my degree and opened a residential interior design firm with a […]
Episode 7: Creating Your Own Birth Philosophy
In 1977 when I started working as a yoga teacher & childbirth educator, I had no idea that what I was creating was my own “Birth Philosophy”. I remember, easily saying, “85% of all births will occur spontaneously and naturally, in a healthy female body”, and it was very true! I had a fundamental belief […]
Episode 6: Learning to Listen to Your Body
I want to share a story about how I learned to listen to my own body and its wisdom. One year after I gave birth to my second child by c-section due to a miss diagnosis of herpes, I found myself pregnant again with my third child. The trauma I had experience with my second […]
Episode 5: Educate Yourself about Your Birth Options
Your journey to becoming a mother will teach you many things. Not the least of which, will be to develop your ability to learn new things and make decisions fast. At the end of my second pregnancy, I developed a condition that demanded that I take immediate action. I had to learn and make decisions […]
Episode 4: YOU ARE CREATING THE FUTURE
Today we will look at three recent discoveries made by science regarding human development and HUMANITIES dependency on mothers for our very health and survival. Becoming a mother means that you join the long line of mothers who have literally created our human species, all the way back to our first mother. Becoming a mother […]
Episode 3: WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN TO BECOME A MOM?
On today’s podcast of Becoming Mom, I would like to devote our time together to more fully understanding the importance of what it means to become something, and specifically what it means to become a mother? I hope this episode will inspire you to realize your importance and claim the respect motherhood deserves. I hope […]
