The local version of my exclusive Birth Empowerment Course will start again Feburary 1st!  Maybe you've read the course description and activities, but you're still wondering if the course will be a good fit for you.    

This info will cover this and all future sessions of my Birth Empowerment Course, both locally and online.  In other words, if anything changes, I will update it here.  For info on my other classes, Mothering in Conscious Choice and Breastfeeding Without Fear, please click those links!

We hear a lot about postpartum depression nowadays, which is good--awareness is rising, and more women are getting the help they need. However, what's not talked about very often is the possibility of prenatal depression. We tend to hear the opposite--about pregnancy glow, and being awash in the hormones of love, etc.

It took me five entire pregnancies to admit that I don't actually like being pregnant. Of course, I love the building excitement, and the feeling of baby feet kicking in my belly will always be a memory I cherish deeply.

However, during pregnancy, I am not generally happy.

I'd just like to make one thing clear:  I am not a birth zealot.  

Really--I'm not!

I admit that I deeply believe in natural childbirth.  Personally, I'd recommend trying to keep it as natural as possible, in most circumstances.  However--I recognize that that's not the path for everyone.  And that's OKAY.

I don't want to take away your epidurals.  I don't think less of women who choose hospital birth, or have misgivings about natural birth.  

I certainly don't want any woman, anywhere, to feel ashamed about her birth choices.  

If, in one's fervor to "convert" women toward natural childbirth, they also made them feel shame over their past (or current!) choices--then we are Missing the Point Entirely.