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Avid Reader Bookshop
Up to Brisbane to another bookshop event at the Avid Reader. This is another bookshop with a strong community presence and following that regularly offers book talks. New faces but also some colleagues...
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2014 Happy Birthday! 1 Year Old This Week!
Birth with Confidence: savvy choices for normal birth Yes, ‘Birth with Confidence: savvy choices for normal birth’ was launched one year ago on Friday 24th May 2013 A lot can happen in a year … Some of...
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What does it mean for birthing?
January’s over and my New Year’s resolutions are already a month old. Have you reflected on and declared any New Year’s intentions and resolutions? How are they holding up? My 2015 intention is to...
View ArticleWhere’s the love bomb? Birth, relationships and love
This Valentine’s Day I’m pondering the link between birth and our adult loving relationships. A strange link, you might think, but it’s an important one. Our understanding of what psychologists call...
View ArticleDesigning a Birth Circuit for Normal Birth
Previously Published in THE NATURAL PARENT MAGAZINE – AUTUMN 2015 Before I had my first baby 37 years ago I was a physical education teacher, swimming instructor and outdoor adventure instructor. Since...
View ArticleOxytocin Under Threat
Previously Published in THE NATURAL PARENT MAGAZINE – May, 2016 Hormones, hormones everywhere—we are learning more and more about the hormones that initiate and support so many of our body functions,...
View ArticleQueen Oxytocin, Ruler of Birth – Wherefore Art Thou?
Previously Published in THE NATURAL PARENT MAGAZINE – February 2018 Dear Natural Parent Reader, I’m making some assumptions about you, in particular about you and birth. I’m assuming you are what I...
View ArticleUnderstanding Pain Dynamics in Normal Birth
Previously Published in THE NATURAL PARENT MAGAZINE – SPRING ISSUE 2014 If you have been following my articles about birth in The Natural Parent magazine you will be aware that my focus is on normal...
View ArticleWhat is a Doula and Why Do I Need One?
Modified and previously Published on Kidspot – 20/3/18 The call came through at 1.55 in the morning, ‘We’re heading to the hospital’, explained the soon-to-be-father of baby number four. ‘Great’, I...
View ArticleYes, You Can Say No!
Previously Published in THE NATURAL PARENT MAGAZINE – Autumn 2014 As usual in my articles for the Natural Parent magazine I’m assuming dear reader that you are a ‘willing woman’ with a yearning for...
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