Re: [ozmidwifery] A follow thru journey.....when Sally met Harry....(Long)

[Pinky McKay]

Hi Tina, Your story moved me muchly too - you are doing wonderful work and yes a book of these stories would be so powerful. I try to think of things that I would share with a woman who is pregnant  -I have left Vicki and nics video with my daughters housemate -an educated young lass who is too "scared" to watch it yet - she is enjoying being pregnant but doesnt want to get frightened about birth (she' 26 weeks) - maybe I should have just invited her over and played it -or perhaps played it for my daughter first so she could encourage (she was there as a ten year old - watching his head emerge - when I had James but still says to me " but he was your fifth baby so of course it would be easy" - I assure her that ten pound shoulders dont "fall out" whatever number baby, but we are designed to do this beautifully ) -this video is so NOT scary but society's portrayal of birth as scary (as opposed to exciting and miraculous) has filtered through so strongly.   At risk of "interfering", I will now forward your story to Katie.   Thanks, Tina, for a beautiful story.   Pinky     ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 11:18 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] A follow thru journey.....when Sally met Harry....(Long) In a message dated 23/11/02 4:29:20 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: oh, Tina- I am bawling here!  I can hardly see the screen...that is the MOSt AWESOME story - THANK YOU for sharing it here.  Sniff sniff - it truly does the soul good to hear what a woman can do when she is supported and nurtured and caressed and honoured. Thank you for doing what you do : we mothers need what you are doing. Would you mind if I share that story at my "Birthtalk : Sharing, Empowering, Celebrating Birth" meeting next week?  MElissa Hi Melissa...thank you to you and other fellow listers who enjoyed Sally's story....I love story telling..its so powerful....and sharing our stories is just one way of sharing woman's strength and wisdom....a good story always peps people up and restores our faith in womens power in birth....helps gets us thru the crappy days... Please Melissa, I would be delighted for you to share the story....another midwife contacted me also and has shared the story with some nursing students she is working with doing their maternity (gender) placement who enjoyed it also....Just by sharing one story....its already touched so many....this is really great stuff...I love it... At the B Mid Student Collective...we are bantering around the possibility of putting a book together of our follow thru experiences 'with woman'..........written by BMidders who have the honour and privilege of sharing in women's experiences :-)) Yours in reforming midwifery Tina Pettigrew. B Mid Student Victoria University