Generations Birth Services

03/26/2013

"Childbirth is the leading reason for hospital admission, and the system is set up to make the most of the opportunity. Keeping things chugging along are technological interventions that can be lifesaving in some situations but also interfere with healthy, natural processes and increase risk when used inappropriately."
(Reference: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/05/what-to-reject-when-you-re-expecting/index.htm)

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02/28/2013

The benefits of having a doula at your birth are plentiful!

{ References: Mothering the Mother, How a Doula Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier and Healthier Birth, by Kennell, Klaus, and Kennell (1993) }
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08/16/2012

07/14/2012

A beautiful, healthy, baby girl born yesterday to an AMAZING mama after about 55 hours of labor. I stand in awe of her strength and courage.... This is one tired, but ecstatic doula!!!

05/15/2012

http://www.facebook.com/babyashlynnupdates

This page is to keep everyone up to date on how Ashlynn is healing from the hell from what her fathe

05/05/2012

The three most beautiful sights: a potato garden in bloom, a ship in sail, and a woman after the birth of her child...
-Irish proverb

04/13/2012

http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail6162.cfm?id=130302

KELOLAND TV is the news, weather and sports information leader in South Dakota from Sioux Falls to Rapid City; in Minnesota from Marshall to Worthington to Luverne and in Iowa from Spirit Lake to Sioux City.

04/06/2012

Suzanne Arms' acclaimed birth film. Beloved by parents, midwives, doulas and birth educators for showing the difference between the medical-hospital paradigm...

12/14/2011

http://feminismandreligion.com/2011/12/13/1722/

This past Sunday night, midwife Robin Lim was named CNN Hero of the Year at a formal award ceremony in Los Angeles, California. The award, which was given after eleven weeks of public voting on CNN...

10/17/2011

"If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people." --Old Chinese Proverb

10/10/2011

It's International Babywearing Week!

09/15/2011

There is a mantra that we have culturally adopted regarding birth. “Nothing else matters as long as there is a healthy baby” And, I don’t know why I’m not used to it after 12 years, but it still shakes me