It does not have to be one born of fear. Be well and all follows. Do all that you have to get to were your health and periods, and life are perfect. Babies – well ones – easy ones – (often too many too close together like your forebears) will follow. As they it is […]
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(written 1998) Some of this is fairly raw/ more like a journal for me to work out just ‘what was I doing???’ after the dust settled down. STAGE ONE – pregnancy – 1st few months – 1986 Initially, the awareness that she was not as her brothers in utero, that there was no sense of
Learnings from being Skye/Kathryn’s Mother Read More »
One day .. . Never know who you will bump into! ‘A couple of weeks ago on a walk in my neighbour hood I walked past a house I had walked past many times. This particular day I noticed a sign on the nature strip advertising acupuncture with Heather Bruce. I stopped and stared and
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Having three bright boys was NOT a gift. SEAN, MY ELDEST, was tested at being past genius level at 6 ½ and languished at school. Possibly my not understand in the education system here in Australia did not help – in my native NZ, when I was attending school, everyone started on their fifth birthday
The School/Parent Interface Read More »
A strange thing to write about ?Not a sexy word? Try boundaries then.I see a lot of very strange (to me) styles of parenting as people bring their difficult toddlers and children (fairly feral if not getting their own way) – and I often wonder – did no one tell these people the role of
Happens for many of us and we never know it. Should you see a baby with ‘crossed eyes’ think – brain injury – as this is the most often visible side effect. 1) – Archie at 3 months – now with substantial mobility and generalized brain injury (‘diagnosed’ as having cerebral palsy). This was not
One Parent’s Lament This story is about NOT limiting the outcome. It is about working outside our personal and cultural restraints, and of allowing the path of another, under some guidance, and with apparently unlimited unseen assistance, to unfold. It can be an inspiration for those who face hopelessness either personally, or within their professional
I knew nothing about Reiki first hand, until Kathryn (Skye), my massively brain injured daughter, was in need of extra help. I had been vaguely aware of the more ‘out here’ types playing in the edges of healing and New Age stuff- but was a very practical acupuncturists and mother and had no need to explore
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My third child and I had a difficult beginning. She initially breastfed, as I assumed all babies did – onto the breast, attached, suckling, and swallowing – normal. Then she descended into a life or death decline. During this time, I was exceptionally grateful that I had had no trouble feeding her elder brothers. My
Breastfeeding in Trying Circumstances Read More »
(Written long ago) from a birthing mother’s perspective . . . I have included this, as being a mother, shaped my experience as a healer and as an author. I would hope that the book/DVDs I have written including What Dads Can Do, allows parents to do what I did not — take charge and
Forty Years+ of Maternity Care Read More »