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Isis
 Honorable, straightforward and idealistic. Active and self-confident. Colors: male: white, female: blue Compatible Signs: Osiris, Thoth Dates: Mar 11 - Mar 31, Oct 18 - Oct 29, Dec 19 - Dec 31 Role: Goddess of motherhood, women, and magic; goddess of the South; protector of Imseti (the son of Horus who watched over the canopic jar containing the liver) Appearance: Woman wearing the hieroglyph for "throne" on her headWhat is Your Egyptian Zodiac Sign? Designed by CyberWarlock of Warlock's Quizzles and Quandaries
This came across the Holistic Pediatrics Jax. Group and I had to share, hehe, I think this is soo cute! Ive met kids like this!
Submitted by RC Johnson
THE MIDDLE WIFE
A grammar school teacher from Miami, remembers this Oscar-worthy birth tableau from one of her students.
I've been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two children
myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own
first-grade classroom a few years back.
When I was a child, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few
sessions with my students. It helps them get over shyness and
experience a little public speaking. And it gives me a break and some
guaranteed entertainment.
Usually, show-and-tell is pretty tame. Children bring in pet,
turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that.
And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them. If they
want to lug it to school and talk about it, they're welcome.
Well, one day this little girl, Anna, a very bright, very outgoing
child, takes her turn and waddles up to the front of the class with a
pillow stuffed under her sweater. She holds up a snapshot of an infant
and says, This is Luke, my baby brother, and I'm going to tell you
about his birth day "
First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then Dad
put a seed in my Mom's stomach, and Luke grew in there. He ate for nine
months through an umbrella cord."
She's standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying
not to laugh and wishing I had my camcorder with me. The children are
watching her in amazement. "Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom
starts saying and going Oh, oh,oh!'"
Anna puts a hand behind her back and groans. "She walked around the
house for, like an hour, Oh, oh, oh!'" Now the child is doing this
hysterical duck walk; holding her back and groaning.
"My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she
doesn't have a sign on the car like the Domino's man. They got my Mom
to lie down in bed like this."
Anna lies down with her back against the wall. "And then, pop! My
Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he got thirsty, and
it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!"
This child is sitting on the floor with her little hands miming water flowing away.
"Then the middle wife starts saying 'push, push, and breathe,
breathe." They started counting, but never even got past ten." "Then,
all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was covered in yucky stuff.
They said it was from Mom's play-center, so there must be a lot of
stuff inside there for him to do."
Then Anna stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her
seat. I'm sure I applauded the loudest. Ever since then, if it's
show-and-tell day, I bring my camcorder, just in case another Anna
comes along!
There is an old midwives belief that there is a very very special omen relating to a newborn who still has all or part of the membrane still covering thier little face. It is believed that this little person will likely be a very blessed and elevated soul... I would love to hear your viewpoints on this, and what you believe or have heard from elders. I have seen this a few times, and actually there was one birth where the baby was still completely in the caul (water sak, it actually can happen when a labor is allowed to occur with absolutely no interventions) and it was the sweetest, most spiritual homebirth, on the night of a full moon of all things. Ohh it was so cool! Angels and master spirits were there, i am sure of it.
Fake advertisement, but funny lol ... Christi
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"The main role of the father is to teach the baby that love and comfort
are not necessarily associated with food." - Some brilliant but anonymous
La Leche League leader
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A substitute for natural pregnancy... --Author Unknown A
substitute for natural pregnancy has been developed by Breed Bronson,
Inc., makers of Infantill formula and other baby products. The
YOUterus/Plus-centa unit was introduced in pharmacies and discount
stores nationwide today. A company
representative explained the rationale for the product: "Many women
find it inconvenient to carry their fetuses and maintain a healthy food
supply for them for an entire nine months. Pregnancy changes their
figures, can interfere with job performance, and requires avoiding
drugs and junk food. And some men don't like to be reminded that female
sex organs don't exist solely for them." After
a woman's fetus is implanted in a YOUterus/Plus-centa, the unit is
simply kept in contact with a body having a temperature of 98.6* F.
"But after the second trimester, " commented the representative, "the
fetus can maintain its own warmth. It can be left completely alone,
except for periodic refilling of the Plus-centa feeding solution." When
asked if such technology would be an acceptable substitute for a
woman's experience of new life developing within her, the
representative stated: "We believe it will be fairly common for women
to carry their own babies the first few weeks, when the thrill of
motherhood is new. But soon, anyone experiencing nausea will be
referred to our product. Eventually, anyone appearing pregnant after 6
months will be considered a fanatic." "Eventually
there will be psychologists, completely ignorant of the history of
human reproduction, who will state that after 6 months, natural
gestation is harmful to the fetus' independence." All
preliminary research has indicated that artificially fed fetuses are
significantly less healthy than their naturally nourished counterparts.
The Breed Bronson representative commented: "The literature
accompanying the units will state that natural pregnancy is preferable.
But that won't affect sales. We'll spend millions on freebies to
obstetricians, and they'll convey to their patients that natural
pregnancy is not greatly important, just a matter of personal
preference." "Through advertising
dollars, we'll also enlist the media. Television will present natural
pregnancy as abnormal by never showing it. 'Yes, we're expecting,' your
favorite sitcom character will say, 'our housekeeper is carrying the
baby right now.' Parents will come to believe that pregnancy,
especially in public, is immodest." "In
natural pregnancy, only mom carries and nourishes the baby. With a
YOUterus/Plus-centa, dad, grandma and sitter will all have equal
access. We'll promote this idea that democracy, and not quality or
safety, is what is important in fetal feeding." When
asked if the company was concerned about government regulation of a
product proven harmful to developing babies, the representative stated:
"Are you kidding? We project the government will buy one third of our
units to distribute to poor women." Reminder from:
DoulasNEFL Yahoo! Group
Title:
Monthly Meeting
Date:
Tuesday January 22, 2008
Time:
7:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
Repeats:
This event repeats every month on the fourth Tuesday.
Notes:
Fruitful Vine's family room 4311 Salisbury Road North
I am so excited and blessed to find this venue, for people of varied, yet common spiritual faiths who I relate to look forward to talking to and bonding with and getting to know. I admire all of you and deeply respect and appreciate you! May you all be blessed abundantly!
I would love to hear your views on spirituality as it relates to birth. I have been been a Doula (Professional Childbirth Asistant) for 5 years and have had the honor of attending a great variety of births, from C-Sect. moms and babies, to homebirth/water-birth. Somewhere in between is the typical american birth machine style( Sceduled induction for no good reason, with the works.. Epidural, Pitocin, machines that go *pingg* ending with 3rd degree episiotomy ) *those are my least favorite, can u tell?* Ive also taken care of some of them in the postpartum period. I am there to mother the mother. (And give dad a break and some gentle and discreet advice too, I dont replace him,lol) The one common thread, no matter how we came into the world or who helped us get here, we were all born naked!! So when I witness racism, sexism, age-ism, I dunno, 'DOnt much like You-ism' I LMAO because I know that to the Divine spirit, we are ALL just those slick, wrinkled, wiggly, nekkid little babies! I know many of you have children, If you would like to share your birth story, please do, Id love to hear them all! Were you able to apply spiritual practices/prefferences to your birth experience? Also, to my men out there, tell me how you feel too, as how spirituality ties in to the beginning of life. I invite everyone to share thier ideas/views, and if you could bring your children into the world any way you want, no boundaries or limits, anywhere, anyhow you can dream up, how would that story read? I cant *wait* to hear from you! Love and alafia! Christi
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