Last night, at 3AM I woke up wide awake from a strange dream. The phrase with soft feminine wiles was running through my head. I was even saying it quietly under my breath. I dreamt I was playing a game of scrabble with long-long-long-ago high school boys persons of the past. At the onset of the game, I was acting as if I really couldn’t play well, but in actuality I was setting them up for a trap; I knew that I would blow them to smithereens with my next two moves. However, I smiled sweetly and used all of my soft feminine wiles to compel them to humor me and play the game. Strange, no question about it. Don’t read into it, okay. I obviously have a competitive side, or something. Continue reading
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I am Joy, a happily married mother of two waterbirthed babies. I am a doula, a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, and I worked as a midwife's assistant at a freestanding birth center. In May of 2010, I attended my first birth as a doula and have been hooked ever since. I also spent over a year teaching a weekly childbirth class based on the Birthing From Within method. I love serving laboring moms and I enjoy teaching birth education. I use this blog to write about it all - my life, my children, and my passion of all things childbirth.
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- 10 Ways To Feel Miserable As A Parent
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- The Birth Interview Project Returns
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- Parenting Tips Shared on Facebook and The Implosion of a Million Emotions
- The Birth of A Mother Quote
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- How I Survived Babydom | 17 Must-Have Baby Items
- I Didn’t Have A Voice
- Facts on Postpartum Depression and My Responsibility as a Childbirth Educator
- A Painful Childhood Memory Casts Light on My Quest As a Mother
- A Letter to My Daughter on the First Day of Preschool and Her First Interview
- I Can Do The Upward Bow Pose: Take That 35!
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