Re: [ozmidwifery] Day 3 weight loss

[Aviva Sheb'a]

Too right! If anyone would like an emailed copy of a paper I presented at the 12th Congress of the International Association for Physical Education for Girls and Women, Melbourne, 1992 (I think, or 1993), let me know; I'll send it on. It's Dance and Self-Image -- Moving Ahead. Just had a thought...maybe I'll put it on my website.   In a nutshell it's about how it's mandatory to gain from conception and through childhood, how once we become mobile, we are taught not to lose things ("Oh, where are Auntie Mabel's car keys? Baby toddled off with them...in the toilet!"), then after a few years all of a sudden it's not ok to gain, and we are supposed to "lose" part of the body we've worked very hard to gain. The very term "lose weight" sets one up to gain more of it. Most of us are very successful! and so on.   Aviva   ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary Murphy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Day 3 weight loss I think I love this midwife!  we could be "soulmates?" My Mum (a "Maternity Nurse" in the late 1930's) who caught lots and lots of babies in the S.w of W.a. told me that the "real" weight was after they had their first poo.