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This week I was teaching my first session of the Birth DIY Childbirth Education course, and we reviewed the principles of wild pregnancy: This differs from the official definition of wild pregnancy—which, according to the Free Birth Society, is “the intentional choice to not be engaged in or managed by the industrial prenatal care system,…
Call it a trick, call it a hack, call it intuitive eating, call it blood sugar management, call it “eating for two”—the strategy I’ve developed for maintaining sanity and vitality in the first trimester boils down to: eating frequently. Protein might be a key factor. During preconception, I habituated to eating protein every time I…
THE RELIEF OF THE WILD I’ve been so excited about DIY birth for so long, I hadn’t thought much about how awesome DIY pregnancy would be! Here’s the Thing about wild pregnancy: it prepares me for (free)birth because no one is coming to save me. No one else is telling me that “baby looks healthy”…
The night before my wedding, I was talking with my sister, who is a Greek Orthodox nun, about my preconception diet. She was happy to hear that I’ve been eating lots of red meat and such. She—a vegetarian, according to monastic practice—explained that in Europe at least, everyone understands the link between food and fertility.…
Why would birth professionals be more likely to choose unassisted birth? Could it be… because birth is actually safer and better unassisted? Or because fear is actually the main cause of interventions in birth? And knowledge defeats fear? I’m asking these as questions, but really they’re my answers.
My least popular opinion yet
A hypothesis on the secret sauce of parenthood
I have been developing my preconception protocol since my miscarriage two years ago. Here’s what I’ve come up with.
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