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I just stood there in Pottery Barn the other week, in front of a
phone that looked just like the lovely heavy black phone that we
had when I was little. You know, the one with the rotary dial that,
when you needed to dial 9-1-1, took such a long time for that 9 to
rotate. No wonder they didn't stick with the British emergency code
of 9-9-9. The emergency would have been over before the dialing was
done.So, still standing there, lost in space and time, I started to
think about my low-tech childhood in the '60s and '70s, how I
skipped to Kerrisdale s...
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I just stood there in Pottery Barn the other week, in front of a
phone that looked just like the lovely heavy black phone that we
had when I was little. You know, the one with the rotary dial that,
when you needed to dial 9-1-1, took such a long time for that 9 to
rotate. No wonder they didn't stick with the British emergency code
of 9-9-9. The emergency would have been over before the dialing was
done.So, still standing there, lost in space and time, I started to
think about my low-tech childhood in the '60s and '70s, how I
skipped to Kerrisdale s...
Crossing the Portal, the Old School Way
I just stood there in Pottery Barn the other week, in front of a
phone that looked just like the lovely heavy black phone that we
had when I was little. You know, the one with the rotary dial that,
when you needed to dial 9-1-1, took such a long time for that 9 to
rotate. No wonder they didn't stick with the British emergency code
of 9-9-9. The emergency would have been over before the dialing was
done.So, still standing there, lost in space and time, I started to
think about my low-tech childhood in the '60s and '70s, how I
skipped to Kerrisdale s...
Outside of time/The whisper of water unites us
Slow Birth lives outside of time. Women in labour are often
supported by caring people who are unwittingly blocking the slow
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commenting on the progress of labour. We are all guilty of this. We
turn our heads to the clock. We look at the numbers on the monitor.
We whisper of our own need to eat lunch, dinner, breakfast. We are
stuck in time. But a labouring woman needs our help to stay out of
her left brain, her 21st century mind. If we help her to labour
without tim...
Outside of time/The whisper of water unites us
Slow Birth lives outside of time. Women in labour are often
supported by caring people who are unwittingly blocking the slow
birth process by writing down the time, charting, calculating,
commenting on the progress of labour. We are all guilty of this. We
turn our heads to the clock. We look at the numbers on the monitor.
We whisper of our own need to eat lunch, dinner, breakfast. We are
stuck in time. But a labouring woman needs our help to stay out of
her left brain, her 21st century mind. If we help her to labour
without tim...
Dare to be different
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birth, the lovely nurse sighs and says to my client, "I haven't
seen a birth like that in ages. Thank you!" Well, actually,
yesterday's quote (by a British nurse) was, "I haven't seen a birth
like that since I came here!"Then, I ran into a nurse who had
helped us at a birth last week, and she still was in shock that my
client gave birth standing. "I tried to get her back onto the bed,
I ASKED her to get on the bed, but she just didn't! I had to think,
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