Moments of Awareness

Hi Christy, Thanks for a prompt and thoughtful reply. Again, I'm sorry to have left you with the impression that my feelings toward your profession are negative. Would you be willing to help me correct that impression, which I assume must have come from our web site? I make every effort to be clear that my choices are just that, *my* choices, and that I fully support others (quite strongly in fact) in making the decisions that are right for them, whether they choose a path similar to mine, a pre-scheduled C-section, or any option in between. When your patients choose to put their birth experience in your hands, I'm sure they are, as I would be if I were one of them, grateful for your educated and well-meaning presence, and I'm sure that the decisions you're asked to make are often difficult as were some of the decisions I was called to make in walking the path I chose. I have no desire to discount your profession (and I appreciate your respect for my

Pregnancy Feedback

By Peace Jaway October 18, 2004

----- Original Message ----- From: master@bcentralhost.com To: peace@momentsofawareness.com Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 4:55 PM Subject: Pregnancy Feedback ******************************************************************************* MessageType: Problem Subject: The Birth of your child Username: UserEmail: cbelz@houston ... UserTel: UserFAX: ContactRequested: Remote Name: 192.168... Remote User: HTTP User Agent: Mozilla... Date: 26 Sep 2004 Time: 16:55:30 Comments: Will you now respect the occaisional need for medical attention in childbirth and be grateful that it exists? Anything can and does happen on a regular basis. No one is invinsible. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello cbelz, First let me apologize for being so long in getting back to you. As you may know, we've been enjoying the company of our long-awaited first-born. Well, I had t

your baby

By Peace Jaway October 18, 2004

Hi Jamie, I'm sorry to be so long getting back to you; we've been baby-mooning. :-> Congratulations on your pregnancy! ----- Original Message ----- From: Drew G. To: peace@momentsofawareness.com Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:06 AM Subject: your baby > So, how do you think your home birth experience went? Our birth experience was absolutely beautiful. That's not to say that it wasn't also absolutely normal - pain, shouting, and all - but it was extremely nice to be able to follow the cues of my body and my baby, which guided me unerringly moment to moment to the successful culmination of all our study and preparation, and to be able to share the entire experience with my husband/best friend/most apt partner. It was amazing to see our baby pass out of me safely into his daddy's hands, to be able to share those first moments together, just the three of us in our own home, and from what he tells me (and any