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- Name: Crystal Bowden
- Age: 27
- Gender: Female
- Location: Douglasville GA US
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Books to Read
My Top Four Favorite Birth Related Books!
1 Ina May's Guide to Childbirth - This book has some of the best birth stories you will ever read. There is tons of great information that every woman should know and this book takes a look at the very sexual nature of birth itself. "The same things that get the baby in are the same things that will help the baby come out."
2 Birthing From Within - This book takes on a very creative outlook at preparation for birth by using birth art as a way to come to terms with the psychological aspects of pregnancy and gives you ideas on how to "birth from within".
3 Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First - This book goes behind the scenes and takes a look at what goes on in hospitals across the country. VERY informative, written by an obstetrician that has the guts to take a stand for women!
4 Birth as an American Rite of Passage - This is a very eye opening book written by an anthropologist about the rituals of modern hospital care. Sometimes a little hard to get through but the overall message of the book makes it completely worth it.
Books I am Reading Now!
Unassisted Childbirth, by Laura Shanley
Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About, by Kevin Trudeau
In Defense of Food, An Eater's Manifesto, by Michael Pollan
1 Ina May's Guide to Childbirth - This book has some of the best birth stories you will ever read. There is tons of great information that every woman should know and this book takes a look at the very sexual nature of birth itself. "The same things that get the baby in are the same things that will help the baby come out."
2 Birthing From Within - This book takes on a very creative outlook at preparation for birth by using birth art as a way to come to terms with the psychological aspects of pregnancy and gives you ideas on how to "birth from within".
3 Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First - This book goes behind the scenes and takes a look at what goes on in hospitals across the country. VERY informative, written by an obstetrician that has the guts to take a stand for women!
4 Birth as an American Rite of Passage - This is a very eye opening book written by an anthropologist about the rituals of modern hospital care. Sometimes a little hard to get through but the overall message of the book makes it completely worth it.
Books I am Reading Now!
Unassisted Childbirth, by Laura Shanley
Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About, by Kevin Trudeau
In Defense of Food, An Eater's Manifesto, by Michael Pollan
My favorite sites
ABOUT ME
I am a stay-at-home mom to my little monkey, Haden. I am a DONA trained birth doula, working towards my certification and am also pursuing certification with
ALACE to become a childbirth educator. My family is my number one passion. My interests include scrapbooking, romance novels, childbirth, politics,
environmental issues & learning about new things! Visit my site for Loving Labor Birth Services, to
find great resources on childbirth, breastfeeding and parenting issues.
Inspiration
"If you can shape it in your mind, you will find it in your life." - Fortune Cookie
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
"We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are." - Anais Nin
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
"Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness." - Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds." - Albert Schweitzer
"We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong."
- Laura Stove Harm
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick Douglass
"Not a moment passes that isn't spiritual practice." - Dan Millman
"While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Love is always creative and fear is always destructive." - Emmett Fox
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Robert Heinlein
"Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one." - Benjamin Franklin
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - Yeats
"Recognize that the other person is you." - Buddhist proverb
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
- Mark Twain
"Wars, conflict, it's all business. One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. Numbers
sanctify." - Charlie Chaplin
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
"We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are." - Anais Nin
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
"Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness." - Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds." - Albert Schweitzer
"We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong."
- Laura Stove Harm
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick Douglass
"Not a moment passes that isn't spiritual practice." - Dan Millman
"While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Love is always creative and fear is always destructive." - Emmett Fox
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Robert Heinlein
"Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one." - Benjamin Franklin
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - Yeats
"Recognize that the other person is you." - Buddhist proverb
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
- Mark Twain
"Wars, conflict, it's all business. One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. Numbers
sanctify." - Charlie Chaplin
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