My friend Jaime was kind enough to say yes when I asked if I could practice doing a photo shoot with her.  We spent some time today at her home and various locations around town getting some nice pregnancy photos.

Tonight her husband Eric, who has been our Home Teacher for years joined in the shoot and shared some of his amazing talent on the video.  Thanks Eric and Jaime.  So the business is officially launched.  If you need a Photography Doula for your upcoming birth don’t hesitate to contact me early in your pregnancy to schedule a shoot.

Jenny

January 9, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a recently released report, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) claimed credit for helping to “shape” the Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama this past March.

“In the latter half of 2009 – in what will surely be remembered as a pivotal achievement – Planned Parenthood worked with its supporters across the nation to help shape and pass the Affordable Care Act,” wrote PPFA President Cecile Richards and PPFA Chair Valerie McCarthy, in a letter published as part of the organization’s 2009-2010 annual report.

The women credit their organization’s “tireless efforts” with the passage of a law that “expands care to millions of women and protects women’s access to essential reproductive care,” and promise their supporters “a promising new era of health care.”

According to many pro-life activists and religious leaders, however, what the “new era” touted by Richards and McCarthy promises is an end to conscience rights for Christian employers and health care providers, and an outpouring of government funding for abortion.

A 2010 statement released by the National Right to Life Committee details multiple ways that the legislation opened the door to such funding.

Supporters of the law, however, have denied that it allows for government funding of abortion services. In a statement released on the one year anniversary of the law’s passage, PPFA said that it opposes the Act’s abortion-related provisions, and would throw its weight behind an effort to liberalize those provisions still more.

According to Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser, the recently released report confirms the need for a renewed effort to completely defund the organization.
“Despite an unprecedented effort by statewide and federal leaders to defund them, a wave of former employees willing to testify against them, and uniform agreement amongst Republican presidential candidates that they should be defunded, Planned Parenthood continues full-steam ahead,” she said in a statement. “They are unwilling to answer to the pro-life American majority that wants out of this business.”

American Taxpayers do not want our money being used to abort the children of America.  And we are just one sneeze away from the economic conditions being in place for the government to start calling for forced sterilizations simply because we “can’t afford” the children.  I am completely on board with the idea that society cannot afford to fund Single Motherhood.  But I would hope that most thinking members of society would take the leap in their own minds and understand that an ideological undercurrent of thought around forced abortions and sterilizations is very much a part of the thinking of those who crafted Obamacare.

Jenny Hatch 

The main reason I chose the image of my feet stomping on the UN flag as the LOGO for Blogging Mothers Magazine is because of the UN Population goals of the Globalists.  As Mothers we need to understand these issues and then seek for justice for our sisters around the globe, particularly in China, who have been brutalized around their fertility and the births of their babies.

To illustrate the moral confusion of some young moms I share a post from The Blogging Mormon Mom Rixa Freeze and her site Stand and Deliver who attempted to articulate her feelings around the difficult topic of Abortion this past week.

She Said:

Currently reading

Sometimes I come across a topic I want to know more about and start reading everything I can get my hands on. One recent interest was abortion providers. I wanted to learn why someone would choose this line of work given the violence and persecution they face. I first read Suzanne P. Poppema’s book Why I Am an Abortion Doctor, followed by Susan Wicklund’s book This Common Secret: My Journey As an Abortion Doctor. The writing in both books was so-so, but the stories were gripping. During my searching I also read a lecture by Dr. Garson Romalis, also titled Why I am an Abortion Doctor. I just finished the book Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us by Carol Joffe and am still wanting to read more….

…[Deep breath]

I remember reading a book during my graduate student years by a sociologist (or maybe anthropologist?) who spent time with both pro-choice and pro-life groups and explained the worldviews and values of both camps. I can’t remember the title but it was really interesting. Any more recommend readings on this topic? 

Note to commenters: Keep it civil and on-topic otherwise I will employ the Almighty Delete Button. 

* Dr. Wicklund mentioned that, ironically, one goal of abortion providers is to work themselves out of their job by helping women avoid unwanted/unplanned pregnancies in the first place. But the challenges are immense: lack of access to health care and contraception, partner sabotage of birth control (including threats of violence for using birth control), our hyper-sexualized yet hyper-prudish culture, etc 

In the comment section I said:

Wow Rixa,

You are brave.

I am sad that you have drunk the universal health care koolaid. Obamacare is about to unleash a Chinese style of Health Care in America where Mothers are routinely sterilized after one birth and babies will be forced to be aborted. (Murdered).

I thought you would have been smart enough to see that.

The UN has been extremely vocal about their desire to set up the Chinese Model all over the world.

That being said I am all for Early Abortions being safe and secure for those women who have been the victims of rape and incest, as a survivior of both I would like to know that the option was available for others who may have conceived during the assaults. Thankfully I didn’t.

I want to challenge you to conduct some research on the depopulation agendas of the globalists. It would be nice to have your strong voice speaking out for parental rights regarding how many children couples can have.

Jenny Hatch

Rixa Replied:

Sorry Jenny Hatch, I totally don’t buy that all. A) “Obamacare” isn’t universal health care and B) it is not at all going to mandate sterilizations or forced abortions. Whoever’s making these claims (Fox News anyone?) is just flat-out wrong.

I am not scared of universal health care and think it would do this country an enormous good by spreading the costs more evenly and allowing everyone access to services. I can say this because I have lived and worked in France and often used health services for the students we were responsible for. I am also married to a Canadian who longs to go back to his home country and have access to its health care system again. In both countries, you can buy into a private option if you wish. But most people stick with the public option. Anyway this is a whole different can of works. Not going there today.

And then I followed up with this comment

Rixa,

Just in case you or any of your readers were interested in learning more, here are a few links:

Underpopulation—The Real Problem

http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/972/underpopulationthe_real_problem.aspx

For those of you who believe this could never happen in the US, it already did:

Depopulation & Eugenics In America With Forced Sterilization 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM5f01RaUTw&feature=youtube_gdata_player 

Forum Post: Eugenics, are there people that want you dead?

http://occupywallst.org/forum/euogenics-are-there-people-that-want-you-dead/

quotes from eugenists in their own words:

Quotes by Advocates of Depopulation

http://occupycorporatism.com/?p=2083

Quotes from Eugenists:

If anybody you talk to wonders if there are people who would possibly consider depopulation, here’s a few quotes to throw at them.

“Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind”
Theodore Roosevelt

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“Malthus has been vindicated; reality is finally catching up with Malthus. The Third World is overpopulated, it’s an economic mess, and there’s no way they could get out of it with this fast-growing population. Our philosophy is: back to the village.”
Dr. Arne Schiotz, World Wildlife Fund Director of Conservation, stated such, ironically, in 1984:

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“A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
Ted Turner, in an interview with Audubon magazine

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“There is a single theme behind all our work–we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it….”
“Our program in El Salvador didn’t work. The infrastructure was not there to support it. There were just too goddamned many people…. To really reduce population, quickly, you have to pull all the males into the fighting and you have to kill significant numbers of fertile age females….” “The quickest way to reduce population is through famine, like in Africa, or through disease like the Black Death….”
Thomas Ferguson, State Department Office of Population Affairs

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“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill…. But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap of mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”
Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider – Founder and Secretary, respectively, The Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, pgs 104-105, 1991

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“A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people…. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions.”
Stanford Professor ” Paul Ehrlich in The Population Bomb

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“In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it is just as bad not to say it.”
J. Cousteau, 1991 explorer and UNESCO courier

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“I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today” and, “We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox.”
Dave Foreman, Sierra Club and co founder of Earth First!

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“We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.”
Mikhail Gorbachev

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“Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.”
Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991

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“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.”
Dr. Henry Kissinger New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973.

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“Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries”.
Dr. Henry Kissinger

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“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac,” and “The elderly are useless eaters”
Dr. Henry Kissinger

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“World population needs to be decreased by 50%”
Dr. Henry Kissinger

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“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”
David Rockefeller

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“War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world’s population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. We’ve got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. You know, the bird flu’s good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine”
Dr. Eric Pianka University of Texas evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert, showed solutions for reducing the world’s population to an audience on population control which gave him a standing ovation

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“No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.”
David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations

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“The present vast overpopulation, now far beyond the world carrying capacity, cannot be answered by future reductions in the birth rate due to contraception, sterilization and abortion, but must be met in the present by the reduction of numbers presently existing. This must be done by whatever means necessary.”
Initiative for the United Nations ECO-92 EARTH CHARTER

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“In South America, the government of Peru goes door to door pressuring women to be sterilized and they are funded by American tax dollars to do this.”
Mark Earley in The Wrong Kind of Party Christian Post 10/27 2008

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“Women in the Netherlands who are deemed by the state to be unfit mothers should be sentenced to take contraception for a prescribed period of two years.”
Marjo Van Dijken (author of the bill in the Netherlands) in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/04/humanrights-women

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“Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature”
Anonymously commissioned Georgia Guidestones

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“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
Prince Phillip, Queen Elizabeth’s husband, Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund/WWF

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“Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.”
David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club

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“The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.”
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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“The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries’ shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.”
Obama’s Science czar John P. Holdren: From a book he helped write ‘Ecoscience’

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“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control…. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”
Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviet Union

Physicians for life: (site has quite a few links and stories about Obamacare and Abortion)

http://www.physiciansforlife.org/content/view/1763/2/

And one more written by a christian doctor:

THE POPULATION CONTROL AGENDA – DEPOPULATION

http://wesdancin.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/the-population-control-agenda-depopulation/

“It was not until I journeyedto Elberton, Georgia, stood within the dark shadows of the great Druid-like monument built there, and read the words engraved on the massive stone pillars of that structure that I finally came to accept the truth. At that point it became obvious that just as our Lord has given mankind Ten Commandments to guide our lives, so, too, those from “the dark side” have been given their instructions from the “one” they worship. The ten programs of the “guides” are inscribed in eight different languages on the four great granite pillars of the American Stonehenge. That message foretells a terrifying future for humanity, and explains why efforts to approach the AIDS epidemic from a logical point of view have been consistently thwarted.

One of the most difficult concepts for Americans to accept is that there are human beings dedicated to coercive population control and genocide. Many readers will acknowledge that our government is helping to finance the Red Chinese program of forced abortion, forced sterilization, infanticide, and control of the numbers of live births. Most readers will accept the fact that our nation is helping to finance the United Nations’ world-wide “family planning program,” a form of population control. Most rational men and women, however, find it impossible to believe that such programs are really part of a “master plan” to kill off large segments of the world’s population. I shall have to admit that I studied the politics of AIDS (HIV disease) for over a decade before I finally came to a horrifying conclusion. The real motivation behind efforts to block utilization of standard public health measures to control further spread of the HIV epidemic was “population control.” That was not an easy concept for me to acknowledge, despite the fact that I had long recognized that the twentieth century has been the bloodiest hundred-year period in all recorded human history.” 

Sandi Patti How Great Thou Art

Jenny

Charlotte’s accidental unassisted HBAC (H/T to Mama Birth)

For my first child, I went to a freestanding birth center, where my water broke first, contractions were slow to start, and I got sent home once for being in so much pain, only to be told I was just a 2. I was devastated despite knowing you could go from 2-10 really fast. I labored over 30 hours, tried every trick in the midwifery model, played the “what Would Ina May Do?” game, and decided a transfer for a mercy epidural was prudent. I had been doing deep squats, climbing stairs, walking in the Southern June heat, etc. and was delirious.

It ended in a non-emergency cesarean at hour 42 after my water broke with baby still at a -1 station the entire labor, but with me at 100% effaced and a 9. Her heart tones were great the entire labor. The midwives suspected she was honestly stuck. When she was born, sure enough–her arm and elbow had gotten into a really funky stuck position that hadn’t responded to our deep squats, spinning babies, yoga positions, etc. I got to breastfeed right away in recovery. I won’t say much else about recovery since this is a positive spin on things, but I did just want to note that while I was disappointed I didn’t have her the way it was planned, the actual birth experience was not traumatic for me, and I felt empowered at every choice to increase intervention. I do not believe I had an “unnecesarean.”

For my second baby, I knew for sure I wanted to have a HBAC since I had a non-emergency C-section and a fantastic looking scar. I did not want to be continuously monitored, put on a time clock, or be bullied into doing anything out of fear. I felt like a HBAC with competent care providers would be the safest and healthiest way to bring my baby into the world. That’s why I went with a midwife who had taken on successful HBACs and was very supportive. I will say I am a 6-minute car ride from a hospital with a Level 4 NICU.

For name references, Nancy was my CPM, and her assistant is Andrea, a CPM. Mike is my husband.

I had been crying and emotionally nutty the last 2 days, before my 39-week appointment, thinking I would be pregnant forever, and getting frustrated when I tried to fold my enormous boob into my beautiful new 38HH nursing bra and it wouldn’t quite go—I was just tired of these huge boobs and cried even harder when my left one wouldn’t fit into the cup, and I knew they’d get terrifyingly giant when my milk came in. Everything made me cry.

Lately I had a few issues with fasting morning sugars-they were high enough to be of concern, but not so high as to qualify me for a GD diagnosis. I went on metformin twice a day and followed a strict GD diet. My midwife and family practitioner would correspond and see me both once a week to coordinate care, as the FP is also Charlotte’s doctor. The FP also had a HBAC, so it was a great team who were both trying to do care to allow me to homebirth. We made a plan that we’d give me until the second due date (March 6) to just go ahead and have the baby on my own, but after March 6, we would need to figure out what to do about a possible induction. That would obviously change the homebirth plan completely, but I was very firm I would do what I needed to do about the health of the baby to make sure her transition was the best possible, as she might require extra monitoring for her sugar levels. My midwife was very glad to hear I didn’t shut out options and said we will just cross that bridge when needed.

Andrea checked the position of the baby to see how far down she was in the pelvis, and she was 3/5 of the way in using some sort of 5ths rule British midwives do. That means she was as far down in the canal as she could get before active labor began. I was so happy to hear this, because she was already further down than my first baby was when she was born! Being as how I was near my first due date (2/28) and her position, Nancy told me I could go ahead and pump colostrum to 1. save for the baby in case I needed to help regulate her sugar right away and 2. bring on contractions. She also asked me to get a hold of some donor breastmilk, about 20-30oz., to also help with potential baby sugar regulation if needed.

Sunday: I sent out an email to my playgroup and get some breastmilk to be delivered to me Monday morning! I pumped around noon and got 20ml of liquid gold. We went putzing around the neighborhood from 3:30-4, but not a brisk walk at all. We met my brother at the dog park to let the doggie cousins play, and then we went back to my house to hang out. Around 7 I decided I was going to make a delicious homemade stroganoff, so I did, and wolfed it down. I then realized I had been having fairly regular contractions about 8-10 minutes apart that were different from the BH but not even notable enough to call anyone about them. I remember laughing because how do you not know you’re having contractions after a previous labor of like 42 hours?

Another note: I had been listening to Hypnobabies CDs, attempting to learn to hypnotize myself, but I had no idea if it was “working” or not. I finally just gave up trying to figure out if I really was hypnotizing myself and just enjoyed listening to them while trying to relax or fall asleep for about 2 weeks or so. From about 10-11 I laid on the couch and listened to some tracks.

Around 11 I went to pee and saw pink on the toilet paper and got excited because it was bloody show. I figured I probably would give birth in the next 2 days. Haha, great assumption, right? I called Nancy, who told me to take a shower and go to bed to get some rest, and my doula Julie, who said to call her whenever I needed her.

I showered and shaved my legs, something I hadn’t done since October. I also dried my hair with a round brush just passing the time. I dusted the bedroom and Mike started a load of laundry and dishes and then we went to bed.

From 1-4ish I laid in bed, listened to Hypnobabies easy first stage labor track, sipped water, peed, began to vocalize through some contractions with low moans. I don’t know what it is about the lady’s voice, but she just kept telling me that with each “pressure wave” (contraction) it was bringing me closer to meeting my baby in my beautiful birthing time (I’m telling you, they can get quite cheesy) but at that time I was all like, “Right on, this woman knows what she is talking about, so I will just listen to her tell me these things. And dammit, my uterus IS a special snowflake and knows what it is doing.”

But sometime after 4, the lady was annoying me, and so were the contractions oops! pressure waves. I decided I needed a change of location and Mike said to let him know if he needed me. I made my way to the living room and had these intense sweats and chills, so I went to lie down under my homemade buggie snuggie to watch some guilty pleasure mindless TV recorded on the DVR all geared up for future marathon sessions, and felt my water broke as soon as I was supine. So I hefted my way over to the toilet off the living room and near the kitchen and called for Mike. It is around 4:45am at this point. He comes in with the phone and laptop to start timing contractions at contraction master, and the midwife on the phone asked about baby moving around, color of the water, etc. and said she’d start heading over and she would call Andrea.

I didn’t think to call the doula yet because last labor when I felt like this and went into the birth center, I was only at 2cm. I didn’t really need help through them, and they really were just at the mildly annoying level before my water broke. She also has kids and I didn’t want her to have to leave if I didn’t feel like I truly needed her.

Mike starts putting up dishes and locating the hot water connection in order to fill up the tub the midwife will bring over with her, and I would just call out “s” for start contraction so we have a record to show her. I don’t think to call my doula because I thought I’d wait at least until 6:30 or so so she can sleep. Also, my first child was born 42 hours after my water broke last time, so Mike and I both ASSumed we had plenty of time to let people sleep. He calls my mom and dad to come get my 20 month-old so they’d be here when she woke up to hand her off, as we had decided we didn’t want her at the birth.

5:20ish I tell Mike to start up the tub because I feel like I can get in the tub to wait for them to show up by assuming I was over 5 cm. I really wanted a water birth for the first one, and thought it would be great to have one for my second. I remembered we had some delicious, giant, cold green grapes in the fridge. Mike got me grapes, water, and cold washcloth. I felt like I was going to pass out or throw up. I couldn’t stand up all the way, but felt like maybe I needed another change of location instead of the toilet, as the contractions were at least 1.5 min in length and 1 min. apart. In between, I ate those amazing grapes and sponged myself off. I also just sort of sat there and looked at my weird felted artwork I had made the previous spring. I really was just chillin’ in my own zone. During each contraction I would sort of sway on the toilet and make a low, loud aaaaooooaaahh sound.

At some point I feel like I need to poop and am happy because my body had not cleared itself out like it did last time. I quickly realize, though, that either this is the biggest turd of my life, or it is the baby descending like a train through a tunnel. I figured that out when I was all like, “uuuuuUUUGHHH!” and then the feeling kept going after I was done grunting. Mike had gone to make the bath. I reach down and feel a bulge and know I had better move or the baby will be born in the toilet “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” style. I get the craziest urge to push and I do bear down and push hard while making this super animalistic noise, very much like what Chewbacca marrying a humpback whale might have sounded like at the end of the raucous wedding reception, but then realize I have got to breathe the baby out and try to chill out so I don’t rip my anus and have all my organs and the baby fall out right there in the toilet. Remember, I had never had a vaginal birth or felt anything like that before, so I was convinced I would also birth my entire pelvic floor. I then felt the ring of fire, but it was more like the sides of a cheese grater and not even fire—just scrapey and really painful! That was the ONLY painful part of labor. At this point I know I don’t have time to get in the tub. I call for Mike, who leaves the bath water running and had heard the change in my labor noises. That’s where he found me semi-standing over the toilet and saw hair–but not MY hair! I remember saying, “This isn’t poop!” and laughing hysterically. I mean, wouldn’t you after playing the “Baby v. Turd?” game in your head?

He says, “HOLY CRAP! It’s the baby’s head. What do I do?” I think he was even too shocked to cuss. I said get me a clean towel and put it on the kitchen floor, which was maybe 4 steps or 2 leaps from the bathroom. He was freaking out because I was really, really calm. I rip off my nightgown, got down on my hands and knees, thinking this would be a good position if there was some sort of shoulder dystocia issue, and my body just literally took over. At that point I really wasn’t in too much pain. I didn’t really feel anything other than a baby’s head just hanging out. It was obvious my body was in control and I was just along for the ride. I attribute being a birth story junkie to knowing what to do, since it’s not like I had previous practice. I think he called the midwife but I don’t quite remember him talking to her, and at one point he put the phone down and wasn’t quite talking to her anyhow. I remember him telling me, “Nancy says to pant!” and I said, “Too late, the baby is coming out and I will ahhhhh her down!” I told him to not pull anything out, the baby would come out on her own, and to be ready to catch.

The rest of her head came out. I asked if he could see a cord around her neck, and he said he did, so I said see if it is loose enough to remove it. It was, and said she was pink. I said wait for her shoulders to turn and she would probably come right out. I was meanwhile just sort of hanging out with a baby hanging out of me, waiting for the next contraction, checking out the tile and dried macaroni noodles that had escaped, and “ahhhhing” during the contractions with my mouth all open super low. When I felt one I pushed/ahhhed, and the rest of her just slid on out into his arms! He removed the rest of the loose cord and she looked around but didn’t cry right away—she was this great pink color. He helped me turn around so I could sit. I told him to get another towel and the snot sucker in case we needed it, we rubbed her down (not much vernix on her) and I checked her airway.

She did let out a few healthy cries but was very snuggly. I felt like I had torn on my right side somewhere and didn’t know the condition of my perineum, but knew I needed to sit in a way to allow the placenta to come out. We made sure the cord wasn’t knotted or constricted and I just held her and talked to her, stared right at her, and offered her my breast if she wanted it to see if the nursing would contract my uterus to get the placenta out while Mike called back (or maybe kept talking) to the midwife. I knew not to do anything crazy like try to cut the cord myself or pull on anything to avoid hemorrhaging, so I literally hung out until about 10 min. later when Andrea arrived first. Since Nancy was on the phone with us, she did not know we had actually HAD the baby already. She immediately got to work. She had Mike cut the cord, which had stopped pulsing, examined Charlotte, examined me, got Charlotte all wrapped up to hand to Mike in warmed up blankets from the dryer while I got again on all fours until the placenta came out about 15 minutes later. She checked that over and nothing was retained. I examined it, too. I got back on the toilet, she cleaned me up, and we made our way to the bedroom.

Nancy arrived and did my vitals while Andrea worked on Charlotte’s vitals. We got started on nursing and they gave us some family time while they both cleaned up in the bathroom and kitchen. We could both hear them in shock since I was definitely not showing any signs of urgency on the phone. I apparently was talking to them as normal as I would any other day–they noticed no sense of panic, urgency, labor lalaland speak, nothing. We ALL thought I had miles to go before I birthed. I am waiting any day for TLC to come up with a show called “I Didn’t Know I Was That Far Along In Labor” or whatever. Maybe I’ll apply to be on another episode of “Extreme Births!”

The next few hours were a party atmosphere, which I had no idea would make me so happy. My parents showed up, totally just expecting to get my first daughter at the door and leave, but we said, “Would you like to meet your new granddaughter?” They were absolutely shocked and it was just such a special moment to recount the story. My daughter woke up and came in and met her little sister. At first she was confused, but got so excited. I cannot believe she slept through the entire thing. We all hung out in there while Charlotte got weighed, measured, etc. My brother also stopped by before work. He was really blown away, as he had left at 9 just that previous night! They all went out as I got 3 stitches for a first degree minor tear and a “skid mark,” but otherwise, my perineum somehow survived! No organs fell out other than the one that was supposed to! My MIL came by on her way to a tennis match and brought biscuits. People left, and the midwives went ahead and had their weekly Monday morning meeting in the front yard.

The rest of the day was a nice rotation of people, all who brought food! Charlotte S. was on her way over with donor breastmilk to help with the transition if needed, and brought all this amazing food and flowers. My friend Amy brought over this whole pasta spread and some good cheer. My FIL brought a big Smithfield Chicken and BBQ spread of food, and my brother came back over to hang out after work. My doula came over later and helped with latching, brought a little birthday cake, and brought the most amazing fresh herb sitz bath. This is such a contrast to the after care I received in the hospital. Having everyone celebrate around you in your own bedroom admiring your new baby is one of the best feelings in the world, with people serving me cold coconut water with bendy straws and wild berry pie!

It literally was the craziest thing I have ever done and Mike and I were such a great team. I am just so happy he did not straight up pass out or run screaming out the front door. I never, ever would have dreamed that I would just have a baby on my kitchen floor with just my family in the house and not even miss a meal. I never actually expected to not experience pain. I kept waiting to yell the “Why did you do this to me?” and “I can’t do this!” statements during transition, but those never happened! Looking back, of course I was in transition right after my water broke. I never actually thought I wouldn’t get any internal checks or monitoring, because I didn’t want to know how many centimeters I was dilated after last birth’s ordeal with the mental devastation of only being at 2cm and being stuck at 5 cm for about 14 hours. I never, ever fathomed that overall, I would not describe the birth as painful (uncomfortable, sure, but not screaming). I also cannot have imagined 2 entirely different labors, as the first was a 42-hour ordeal ending in a c-section, and this one was about 42 minutes of intensity before the baby pretty much just slid out and said, “Hey y’all!”

I think the things that really helped this labor is that I really must have been hypnotized to relax so deeply to deal with contractions, and my body was so safe and secure at home with no one watching me or whatnot to just allow my body to open up like it was supposed to do, that she just had all sorts of factors aligned to come out. I didn’t try to fight things at all and did have confidence in my body. Fear or apprehension were not present at all in this birth. However, I had confidence in my body during my last labor, too, so it really just goes to show that labor is totally unpredictable for both scenarios! My good friend dubbed me the “freak outlier birther” and that does make me laugh.

Charlotte nursed well and we had really enjoyed just lying in bed, snuggling my baby, having people bring me wild berry pie and delicious food, and taking pictures and whatnot. It is night and day difference between my recovery last time and this time. The midwives came to my house every other day to check on us, and again at 2 weeks, 4 weeks, and 6 weeks. I hadn’t even gone outside since the walk on Sunday other than to get some sunshine in the back yard. The family doctor said bring her in when I felt up to it up to two weeks, since the midwives were seeing her so frequently. Even there, my care provider was crying with happiness when I shared my story, and had me recount it to several staff members. I really felt like I was in a dream. I stayed in bed with my girls as long as I wanted to because I knew this would never happen again, as we are done having children.

I don’t quite think it has set in for either one of us what exactly happened now 5 months later, and we sure are not thinking of the what-could-have-been type of scenarios. When people ask about the birth, there are usually 2 reactions. The first is the look of fear and horror that pass across faces, because that is their absolute worst nightmare. They all want to know why Mike didn’t tie off the cord with a shoe string or why we didn’t call 911. (Ha!) The rest are usually awestruck and say they totally wish they had that birth in the quiet, calm safety of their home with their little one not even waking up with hardly anyone poking, prodding, etc.

I do hope this story can be inspirational to others who are wishing for a homebirth, a VBAC, a HBAC, or whatever type of birth. Feel free to share it with those who you think might enjoy it!

I didn’t understand how difficult this part of Mothering was going to be.

It is like they just walked out the door with this huge portion of my heart tucked in their backpacks.

We were able to have several spiritual heart to heart chats while they were home and I think it helped them to understand me better.  Those talks always seem to knit us together tighter.  It is pure joy to go from being a Mom of teens, who supervises curfews  and friends and rules to go to being a mom to adult children who is now “Friend”, who is just there to listen and share in the joy of each developmental milestone.

I love my daughters with my whole heart.

Paul purchased Sarahs Key, the book, for me for christmas.  I noted how much I loved the movie in this blog post.

As I have been slowly digesting this book these past few weeks, I feel the same overwhelm of love that I felt while watching the movie.

This book was so thoughtfully written, and the story of the adulterous husband who wants his wife to abort because he does not want to be an “old father” really touched a nerve.  Not that my husband would ever say to me, “it’s me or the baby” as the husband did in this book/movie, but if I had understood how passionate my own husband would feel about not having babies into his “old age”, I may have looked for a life partner more my own age.

Paul is nine years older than me and is now well into his fifties.

He has been extremely traumatized by the life events we have shared together and so I give him a ton of credit for the faith leap that having our five children placed upon his shoulders.

When I lost my mind in 1989 after the birth of our first daughter, we did not know if we would be able to have any more children.  Paul confided in me that he wanted to run away from home many times the year that I was doped up on psychiatric meds and he was married to a stepford wife. (I was on a cocktail of several drugs – Lithium, Stelazine, Prozac, and Haldol – that left me in a permanent fog of disability and numbed out nothingness)  During the past 23 years it has been a consistent faith walk to search out our hearts and decide how much we could handle as parents.

When I was expecting Ben in 2002 Rusty Yates was being hammered in the media as the source of his wifes psychosis.  Andrea murdered her five children while in the throes of post partum psychosis.  Many of us in the psychiatric survivor movement believe it was the anti depressant she was taking that was the source of this homicidal rampage.

Paul was deeply affected by this incident and the similarities between our two families was striking.  I was homeschooling, had four older children, was pregnant with number five, we are deeply religious, live in a small home, and had a former psychotic episode after a birth.

Dr. Bob Scaer MD of Boulder connects post partum psychosis to Father/Daughter rape.  I had no conscious memory of being sexually assaulted by my Dad until five years ago.  But the symptoms, including psychosis in 1989, have been constant.  I have struggled with a variety of emotional and physical symptoms for my whole life.  I was finally properly diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress ten years ago, and have been working with a variety of healers and healing modalities to recover from the incest and rape that defined my childhood.  I also had a layering of trauma when I was gang raped in the Michigan state mental hospital by four orderlies when I was admitted  in a psychotic state in 1989.

I continue to have memories of being sexually assaulted and as each incident presents in my conscious mind, it is like it just happened yesterday and so I have to slowly process out the feelings and emotions buried by my childhood brain. I find myself often in a childlike state of mind while moving the memory through my system.  The holidays are a key time for me to process as that was when the majority of the assaults took place during my childhood.

As another layer of trauma moved through my body and mind these past few weeks during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday, I found myself in varying states of emotional distress.  On a particularly difficult day I watched Sarahs Key, the movie, and in the movie a mother commits suicide leaving a nine year old child motherless.  My son Ben is nine and as I watched the movie I felt the power of the story just wash over me.  I have struggled with suicidal thoughts since I was fifteen, and although I have never made an attempt, I have been hospitalized for it twice.

During Thanksgiving week I was processing out some terrible memories alone, and while I don’t believe I would ever do it, the fact that it was on my mind in a big way was troubling. I did not have anyone to talk to, and felt overwhelmed by the emotions.  One of the big fears for us as survivors is that the “treatment” will be worse than what we are experiencing.  For me that has been the case many times when I confided in someone what I was feeling.  The overreaction from those around me caused more trauma than if I had just kept my thoughts to myself and so I have learned to be very circumspect about who I share my innermost feelings with.

When in the throes of panic and overwhelm it is often easy to over share with professionals.  I stopped seeing therapists a few years ago because I did not want to waste one more second of my time or money.  It felt like I was giving my abusers additional power over my life by giving in and going to talk to someone.  I am NOT knocking therapy.  The people I worked with ten years ago were CRUCIAL to helping me and Paul to begin working through this process and I don’t regret one dollar spent as we started down this path.  But after spending tens of thousands of dollars on a variety of healing systems, it became apparent that trying to speed the healing process by spending more and more money was not going to work.

The main reason I wanted to hurry things along was because I wanted to have another baby.

I was unprepared for several additional traumas that set me back physically and emotionally.  Traumas and blowback tied to my internet work and political activism.

(Click here to listen to a VIDEO testimonial about the attacks which have taken place)

Traumas that have left me on deaths door over and over these past six years. All of this trauma mixed together has left me feeling like an emotional basket case.  Again, I don’t blame Paul, our life is what it is, and I am daily grateful for the blessing of being a mother to each of our five children.  I love all of them with my whole heart and praise God for the gift and blessing of having them in my life.

I am curious to see what a pregnancy would be like with no trauma rolling through my body.  I know I may have to wait until I get my Celestial Body to have this experience, but I long to welcome another baby into our home now.  Along with the portions of my life that have been stolen by evil people intent on causing me damage and harm, I feel like my “really big family” which I had planned and prepared to have for my whole life has also been “stolen” away from me.

I suppose this is the reason why Sarahs Key resonated so much in my mind at this time.  It wasn’t just the story of a suicidal mother that triggered so much in my heart.  Watching the movie three times during Thanksgiving week was the PERFECT reminder of the consequences to my little boy if I decided to leave this earth life early.  It was also the story of the mother who left her husband in order to give birth to a beautiful baby that moved me in ways that overwhelm and comfort my heart.

Women will go to extremes in order to protect and give life.  I don’t plan to leave my husband in order to have more children.  Five is enough for me and for us.  But I can understand why a woman would be willing to throw a marriage down the tubes if her husband was pressuring her to have an abortion.

At this point I can hardly envision a world where as Isaiah predicted, “None shall hurt nor destroy“, but I can see it from a distance.  We are quickly approaching the time when those who hurt children will never be able to get away with what they have in the past.  All of these sexual abuse scandals that are coming out are proof that our world is moving towards a time when those who have placed themselves in a position of trust and are able to destroy the lives of innocents will be caught, held accountable, and then locked away from society.

It is an exciting thing to consider…

Jenny

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This class is the third in a Series of Provident Living classes for those who desire to learn self reliance.

Natural Family Living Class

a six class series taught by Self Reliance Enthusiast Jenny Hatch

9 am to 10:00 am

Every third Saturday for the next six months at the Hatch Home

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Class is free and open to the Public!

November 19^th 2011: Food Storage

*This class will cover both short and long term Food Storage

December 17^th 2011: 72 Hour Kits

*Most Emergencies require a three day window of self-reliance before outside help arrives. This class will cover the ins and outs of survival at home or in a shelter

January 21^st 2012: Water Storage & Purification 9am to 10am

*Water Storage is Insurance against a long term disruption in basic services, come learn the basics of how to safely store water in your home

February 18^th 2012: Baking with Whole Grains

*So your whole grain food supply has been sitting in your basement since Y2K, NOW is the time to learn how to cook with it and incorporate whole grains into your daily meals

March 17^th 2012: Essential Oils

*Essential Oils are a great way to purify water, cleanse the home, and provide basic Natural Home Health Care (An allergy to chlorine compelled Jenny to learn more about alternatives to chemicals and she has safely used EO’s to purify her water supply for over fifteen years)

April 21^st 2012: Birth *Pregnant? Jenny taught Natural Childbirth Classes for over eight years and this class will outline the basics of Emergency Childbirth                        

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Hope you can tune in on Saturday January 21st at 9AM!

Jenny

Recently David Archuleta announced he was going to serve a mission for the LDS church.

For my readers who are curious to know how this works:

Young LDS men and women indicate to their Bishops that they are interested in serving a full time Mission.  They have to be worthy to serve and pass two interviews with Priesthood Leaders.  Then they fill out some paperwork which shares a variety of factual information about them with the church leadership.  They do not get to pick where they will serve and We Believe that the Holy Spirit influences those who make those sacred decisions that the missionaries will be sent to the best place for them to serve.

After a few weeks they receive a “call” and are asked to report to the Mission Training Center in Provo Utah on a certain date.  They pay all expenses for travel to the MTC, clothing, and scriptures etc…and also pay a monthly fee to cover living expenses and incidentals tied to mission life.

The new missionaries are not allowed to phone home or have significant contact with family and friends back home, but they are allowed to skype on Christmas and visit with Family Members.  This is to keep them focused on the work and also provide growth and development during the two years they are in the field.

Young Men age 19 are eligible to serve and Young Women aged 21 are eligible to serve.  The age discrepancy is to discourage fraternization of the young people while they are missionaries and also to encourage young women to marry if they have the opportunity.  All young men are called to serve, and young women are able to go if they so choose.

You do not have to be a lifelong member of the church to serve a mission.

Many times young people will get baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and they will immediately decide that they want to serve.  Some of the best Missionaries I have known over the years have been those on fire with new member enthusiasm who immediately turn around and request to serve.  The church likes to have them faithfully attend church meetings and prepare for Temple Ordinances for a year before they go out to preach the gospel.

I predict David will be an amazing missionary in whatever locale he is called to serve.  And wish him well as he prepares to go.

Jenny 

Paul and I are Ward Missionaries, which is a part time six month calling to teach the Gospel to anyone within our locale who is interested in learning more about the church.

We partner with the full time missionaries to teach the investigators as well as anyone in our ward who is interested in learning more about the principles of the gospel.

Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann dropped out of the race for the Presidency.  She gave a great speech yesterday and outlined the reasons why she ran.

I endorsed her early and loudly in every sphere of influence I have, and am grateful she took the time, energy, and spent the money to run.

She put the words Crony Capitalism into the political debate, and that is something that has needed to be done for decades in America.

Here is her speech followed by a link to the radio show I did with Amy Philo the day the Health Care bill passed The House of Representatives.

Jenny Hatch and Amy Philo discuss passage of Obamacare by The House of Representatives

Jenny

PS I will not be endorsing anyone else, I left the Colorado Republican party this past year and will not be participating in our caucus.  As an Independent who leans Constitution party, I will decide right before the election who to vote for at the state and national level.

Paul started work yesterday, the boys resumed seminary and school today, and my daughters fly back to Utah on friday.

Ben came up to me yesterday and requested that we begin his second semester of Home Schooled third grade because Dad was going to be busy with work and would not be able to “keep him occupied”. I said that would be fine,  and we began again with his simple schedule:

Religion: Scriptures, Faith in God, Scouts
Music: Music Theory, Singing, Piano, Guitar
Math: Saxon 3, Mutiplication Flash Cards, and Saxon 54
Recess/PE
Language Arts: Reading and Writing
Art
Lunch
Computer
Reading/Quiet Time

It has been lovely to have a break and some real help with the cooking and cleaning. My daughters were excited to have the time to do some legitimate cooking, and I was so happy to have their help putting away Christmas and deep cleaning the Living Room.

Highlights from this vacation include the Christmas Day Choir at church where six members of the Hatch Family sang and I sat in the congregation singing along and enjoyed watching my family participate. I have been too ill to sing with any choir this year, too tired to attend rehearsals and church on the same day. ( I did go sing at a nursing home with our ward choir because I knew Rutters For the Beauty of the Earth really well and they needed sopranos who could sing the tricky rhythms. )

We also enjoyed many hours of quiet conversation, a few memorable squabbles, and some time spent giving each other foot and back massages with essential oils. An innumerable number of board games were played and Allison and Jeff went on a few dates and to several parties.

Paul and I went out for lunch and saw War Horse, excellent movie.

We just relaxed and spent most of our time doing whatever we wanted, which translated into several Marathon viewings of 24, seasons 7 and 3 and a Big Bang Theory marathon on New Years. (It is bar none the funniest show I have ever watched, but I am determined to stop watching because it is just not appropriate viewing for Mormons – Waaaaay too much sex).

I love vacations, but I also love a more fixed schedule and a little more structure to our day.

As queen of my castle I have one goal for 2012 and that is to magnify my calling as a Ward Missionary. So if you are someone who is looking for answers to lifes most pressing questions, namely:

Who am I?
Why am I here on Earth?
And, What is going to happen to me when I die?

Please contact me personally using the contact form above.

I would love to share my Faith in Jesus Christ with you.

Jenny Hatch

Jeff playing at the WOW Childrens Museum

I hate that all of the identifying terms that Psychiatry uses to catagorize and pathologize childhood behaviors are negative.

And I also reject the notion that a pill for all those catagories of behavior will “fix”and “cure” said behaviors.

All of us have experienced traumas that contribute to certain personality traits and it is when we begin to dig below the surface of such traits that we can learn to understand and accept each other as human beings.

The love I feel for my 17 year old son is multiplied because of his quirks of behavior.

I have often thought as I have watched him negotiate the tempestuous waters of modern life that if a professional were to have access to him and his siblings as they matriculated through childhood exhibiting normal reactions to a variety of life events, that they could easily have been diagnosed as mentally ill during periods of adolescent angst and childhood development.

My heart has been broken observing the large numbers of children in our day to day life whose parents have bent to the pressure to dose children with toxic psychiatric meds believing the answers for “normal” childhood behavior was to be found in a pill.

If nothing else, I am grateful for my early exposure to the tortured world of Psychiatry if only because of the first hand education I received by interfacing with it for a time and then spending so many years researching and learning how to be well. While I personally have benefitted from the education and up front view, my children have also been able to enjoy health freedom because I was never tempted to go looking for an answer in a pill.  I can understand the seduction to medicate though.

At times as certain children have slowly worked through various hurts and traumas we were not sure we could stand living with them.  Jeffrey has been our little fireball of fury and angst from the moment he was born.  A high need baby and about as a demanding personality type as you will ever meet, at times Paul and I wanted to run away because of various frustrating episodes with this son o mine.

But as we gradually worked through each issue as it presented, we found the patience and the strength to lovingly muster through every storm that presented.  And now, as he prepares to leave, I find myself looking back and remembering, so many sweet and spiritual moments with him.

Please mamas, don’t give in to the temptation to medicate normal childhood behaviors.  You may think you have “helped” your child by drugging them into obedience or quiet.  But often this medicating simply kicks the problem down the road, and so many unexpected side effects from the drugs show up that you can’t see the forrest for the trees.

We have so many tools at our disposal to help that don’t contain toxic ingredients.  Essential oils have been our tool of choice to calm, heal, and comfort when life overwhelmed and one of the children melted down in tears and rage.  Prayer and priesthood blessings have also been powerful, specific means to help our children when they were troubled by life.

It is my prayer this day that all families will be able to understand the long term consequences of using drugs to raise our children.

Jenny

Blogging Mothers Magazine January 2012 Edition

Cover Family The Schade Children

72 Hour Kits for Babies and Small Children online class

72 Hour Kit PODCASTby Jenny Hatch

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*Most Emergencies require a three day window of self-reliance before outside help arrives. This class will cover the ins and outs of survival at home or in a shelter with a focus on babies and small children, including information on EMERGENCY CHILDBIRTH.

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The Power of Moms

Recently I have discovered a whole world of Mormon Mommy Bloggers who are engaged in some amazing work online.  My daughter told me about Shawni Pothiers Blog 71 Toesa few months ago. Shawni has several sisters and in laws who are dedicated Mom Bloggers and as I have explored the work they are doing, I felt it would be a great idea to share some of their links and thoughts on my own blog.

Shawni’s sister Saren has a web site called The Power of Moms A Gathering Place for Deliberate Mothers. Saren also writes a family blog called Five Kids in Five Years.

I don’t have much time for blog reading, as I spend quite a bit of my time doing my own internet work and reading about politics, but I have been so impressed with the intention these women put into their Mothering that I felt like a shout out was in order.

Jenny Hatch

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Sharon Shade on The Jenny Hatch Show

Interview with Sharon on The Jenny Hatch Show

Married for almost 17yrs I’m a mom of 7 great kids, 6 who walk and 1 who flies, ages 15 years to 16 months. I’ve had a few varieties of birthing experiences and alternative healthcare. I love simple natural living and sharing about the wonderful things God has provided that SUPPORTS the mind, body, spirit and environment. I have a little mantra, “Life is to short to hang out with emotional chickens”…dig deep and get real, WAKE -UP to who you REALLY are and take the COURAGE to Live Your Truth!!

I’m ALWAYS learning!!! I’m currently delving into Energy Medicine, a phenomenally FAST way to heal emotionally and spiritually!! I’m growing a life coaching business where I facilitate others to awaken to their own healing and personal answers to life. We are all powerful co-Creators with the Universe and everyone has a message and purpose to share with those around them.

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Final Prep before the World Economy Collapses

Some final things to do to prepare for a time of chaos around the collapse of the Economy.

Economic Congruency: Ayn Rand points to the logical “next step” of Obamas Financial Policies

So the President is going to propose a new economic plan after his vacay at Marthas Vineyard.

He should not waste the mental energy attempting to put it together, Ayn Rand has already done the heavy lifting on that topic by taking Collectivism in America to its logical conclusion with Directive 10-289 in the chapter Miracle Metal of Atlas Shrugged.

Ayn used Fiction to help her readers understand what Marxism “Looked Like” in real life by creating fictional characters who could be played today by any of the secular humanists currently embedded in our National Government.

The Economics of Natural Mothering

I have been planning to write this post for some time now, years it feels like, and someday I plan to encapsulate these thoughts into a book written for young women. For now, I’ll try to take the mishmash of my thoughts and attempt to get something readable into the blogosphere.

I have spent untold hours reading commentary on economics these past few decades (Bar none fav author is Thomas Sowell). And with the upsurge in concerns about the economy, it feels like so many of my favorite authors have been waxing far more eloquent than I with conservative ideas for fixing the broken parts of the American Economy.

Some of the most recent liberal and conservative ideas being thrown around include limiting family size to 2 children, decelebritizing mothers who give birth to multiples, and there has been a whole lotta talk about some sort of a ginormous government stimulus to “create jobs“.

From the presidents own web site he encapsulates the feds doing the following for we the people: (All on the nickel of our future children and grandchildren)

Jenny Hatch

UPDATE: Maryann Godboldo case

For Background on Maryannes case click here

More Here at Natural News

(NaturalNews) The horrific saga of Maryanne Godboldo’s battle with domestic terrorists in the government of her home state of Michigan appear to finally be coming to an end. The Detroit Free Press reports that two higher courts have confirmed the ruling of a lower court several months ago that Godboldo’s refusal to administer the dangerous Risperdal drug to her daughter was fully legal, and that all charges and actions taken against her by the state were unwarranted. In case you missed the story, Child Protective Services (CPS) in Michigan sent a SWAT team and tank to Godboldo’s Detroit home back in April after the mother refused to keep giving her 13-year-old daughter Risperdal (risperidone), a dangerous schizophrenia drug that had been causing her daughter to experience severe adverse reactions. Godboldo’s doctor had recommended that she discontinue use of the drug, but CPS felt otherwise, and decided to launch a full-scale terrorist raid on the woman’s home, where they proceeded to illegally kidnap her daughter.

Blessing the Way, a new type of Baby Shower…

Early in my pregnancy, I was clear that the greatest gift I could give to my husband and children was the experience of the blessing way. I felt somewhat shy and embarrassed to organize my own ceremony – but had a very clear vision of how I wanted it to go. I felt confident that if I did nothing else during this child’s gestation – the feelings and power associated with a family blessing way would be the most important “prenatal care” we could experience. So, being the little red hen that I am, I set out to create the ceremony that would serve our family best.

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Saudi Life: Many Mothers Routinely “Cut” at Delivery

Saudi Life: Many Mothers Routinely “Cut” at Delivery

written by, Aisha Al Hajjar

“THERE is a dreaded procedure routinely performed on expectant mothers that makes most cringe and fear their birth experience.  It’s called an episiotomy.  An episiotomy is a procedure in which a surgical incision is made in the tissues of the birth canal just before the baby’s head is born.  This cut causes trauma to the woman’s genital region, requires stitches after the birth, and is a matter that is considered a violation of the woman’s human rights amongst natural childbirth advocates.

Progressive Parenting: Interview with Dr. Stuart Fischbein – BREECH BIRTH

Breech Birth with Dr. Stuart Fischbein (click to listen)

Dr. Stuart Fischbein is a strong supporter of patients rights to informed consent and refusal. He believes a patient has the right to choose her own path given true and not skewed informed consent. Following that tenet, just as a woman should be able to choose to have an elective c/section she should be able to choose not to have one, as well. He believes the American system of hospital based obstetric practice has been eroding those choices for women for quite some time. Due to concerns of economics, expediency and fears of litigation women are being coerced to make choices that may not be in their best interest.

On this show we will be discussing Breech Birth.  He believes that term breech presentation should be treated as just a variation of normal.

Home Crafted Soap

The kit made twenty small bars of soap. Then I purchased two more kits and made some Rose Oil soap and included the petals from a dozen red roses.

My daughters will be heading back to school in a few days and it was so fun to have Shelly come ask me if she could take some of my soap back with her. I happily handed her half a dozen bars.

This was a fun project.  And except for the dishwasher exploding with an overwhelm of bubbles when I tossed my double boiler in without scraping the hardened soap, relatively painles, and a new way to create lucious soap for just a few dollars.

Happy Soapmaking!

Jenny

Doula Photography Services w/ Jenny Hatch

For families in Boulder county I am offering a new service.

Servicesinclude:

Pregnancy Photo Shoot Blessing Way Ceremony Labor and Delivery Doula support Birth Photography and Video Newborn and New Family Shoot USB of all Photos and Videos and…

A three minute Montage of your photos and videos will be thoughtfully edited and uploaded to You Tube for you to share with Family and Friends.

For $528.00 you can have all of the above as well as a lifetime of wonderful memories.

Please contact me below to schedule your Pregnancy Shoot, which I recomend you set up by the 20th week. The best time to photograph is after 35 weeks of pregnancy.

Contact form

Jenny 

Click on The Power of Moms Banner to learn more!

Click on the image for Online Homebirth Store for all of the Supplies you need during a Family Birth ALONE!

Click on the image for Doula Photography Services

For families in Boulder county I am offering a new service.

I am a trained labor assistant and a novice photographer. During almost all of the births I have attended I was the one to take New Family photos, and although untrained as a photographer, the families were very grateful to have an extra person available at the hospital or at a home birth, prepared to offer comfort measures for the Mother during labor and ready to capture New Family Memories, as they often would forget to pull out the camera during the excitement of welcoming the baby.

I have organized a doula photography business for couples who are expecting a new baby.

Services include:

Pregnancy Photo Shoot
Blessing Way Ceremony
Labor and Delivery Doula support
Birth Photography and Video
Newborn and New Family Shoot
USB of all Photos and Videos and…

A three minute Montage of your photos and videos will be thoughtfully edited and uploaded to You Tube for you to share with Family and Friends.

For $528.00 you can have all of the above as well as a lifetime of wonderful memories.

Please contact me below to schedule your Pregnancy Shoot, which I recomend you set up by the 20th week. The best time to photograph is after 35 weeks of pregnancy.

Contact form

Jenny 

Paul found a recipe online for Laundry Soap and made a few batches of it during the summer. Only one batch exploded in our basement when he added in too much washing soda. The soap did not get our clothes as clean as our regular laundry soap, so we tucked the ingredients away and plan to use it on an “as needed” basis.

I purchased a hand soap kit from Hobby Lobby last summer and promptly lost it. Paul found it a few weeks ago when he cleaned the basement storage room.

I made up a batch of soap and videotaped it. (And yes, you don’t see me in the video because I was wearing my Pajamas)  Blogging Moms are notorious for doing our internet work in underwear and PJ’s.

The kit made twenty small bars of soap. Then I purchased two more kits and made some Rose Oil soap and included the petals from a dozen red roses.

My daughters will be heading back to school in a few days and it was so fun to have Shelly come ask me if she could take some of my soap back with her. I happily handed her half a dozen bars.

This was a fun project.  And except for the dishwasher exploding with an overwhelm of bubbles when I tossed my double boiler in without scraping the hardened soap, relatively painles, and a new way to create lucious soap for just a few dollars.

Happy Soapmaking!

Jenny

Click HERE to purchase pure Rose Oil from Young Living Essential Oils

I actually auditioned as an actor for these movies when the notice came out a few years ago. Didn’t get the job, but have been aware of it and watching for them to be produced for a long time.

Jenny

Here are the first six movies, which all center around the birth of Christ:

An angel fortells Christs birth to Mary

Mary and Elizabeth rejoice together

Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem

Shepherds learn of the Birth of Christ

The Christ Child is presented at the Temple

The Wise Men seek the Christ Child

It has been pure joy to have Michelle and Allison here.

Jenny

Here are the links:

To aid in your homebirth preparations click here for supplies!

Family Childbirth Education Click for Books and Videos

Click for Childbirth Kits and Baby Scales

Click for Massage Table and Rocking Chairs

Click for Pregnancy Comfort Pillows

Click for Birth Balls and Birth Stools

Click for Slings, Diapers, and Patterns

Click for Natural Remedies

Happy Birthing!

Jenny Hatch

I always get a little weepy and sentimental when one of my children is preparing to leave home. Jeff is making big decisions right now and winding down his life under our roof. He will graduate in the spring from high school. I have used this picture of us taken when he was two in 1996 as the theme for my blog for several months now. He was such a darling baby. He is featured heavily in our family holiday E – Card this year. Highlights include our may trip to Yellowstone, Jeffs court of Honor for his Eagle Scout Award, and the video finishes with the holiday concert at the school december 2011 where Jeff cracked the whip during sleighbells.

I will be back to regular blogging in a few weeks. Right now we are enjoying a wonderful reunion with our daughters.

Jenny Hatch

Ben, a few weeks old

72 Hour Kit PODCAST by Jenny Hatch

To watch the whole VIDEO at One True Media: CLICK HERE

To listen to a Ninety Minute Podcast Lecture on 72 Hour Kits with a focus on Babies and Small Children, Click HERE!

Shawni’s sister Saren has a web site called The Power of Moms A Gathering Place for Deliberate Mothers. Saren also writes a family blog called Five Kids in Five Years.

I don’t have much time for blog reading, as I spend quite a bit of my time doing my own internet work and reading about politics, but I have been so impressed with the intention these women put into their Mothering that I felt like a shout out was in order.

The other day Saren wrote a post that touched my heart.  We have a Christmas Tradition of reading a Christmas Story every night starting on December 1st.  We also include some singing, a scripture about the Savior, and read our regular chapter in the Book of Mormon with our children.  We try to have this family time every night until Christmas.

This year during our first nights reading we had several fights and a few arguments.  Each night some little tiff has marred the experience and last night I whipped out the camera and took a little video after we finished reading.  Although dark, it captures a snapshot of the moment.

Saren wrote on her blog:

Moments happen when I get out of the way 

“You can’t force a moment. I know this but sometimes I still try.

Yesterday there were lots of not-so-good moments. The kids were cranky and needy and I worked hard all day but didn’t feel like I got much done. We were late to everything because of domino effects of dumb little things that kept happening – misplaced shoes and homework, spending way too long trying to find poster board at Target, the cashier at the shoe store giving me a hard time about exchanging shoes I bought for my son last week that had already fallen apart, one thing after another. I ended up snapping at the kids quite a bit and not feeling like the mom I want to be at all….

…I dropped the whole decorating idea and just plopped down on the couch, feeling defeated. Quickly, I was joined by my 6-year-old twins, books in hand, geam in their eyes. They snuggled up on either side of me and placed a book on my lap. The older kids came and sat down too. I’d told them we’d just read one book as it was getting a bit late but we read four books. We just couldn’t stop. The kids were creating the beautiful moments I’d craved with their snuggling and cute comments, memories and ideas as we read.

So last night, I learned (yet again) that the best moments are not planned by the mom. The best moments happen when the mom relaxes and let’s the kids bring the moments to her. So much of the joy of moments is stamped out when we get too attached to our own visions of particular joyful moments we’re trying to create.

Just be there. Just listen. Just sit there. Just smile.”

In the Comment Section of Sarens Blog I wrote this: 

Jenny Hatch said…

This one resonated today. We started our stories, scriptures, and christmas singing last night amidst typical teenage boys fighting with little brother, as I type this comment Dad is refereeing what I hope is the final fight of the night.

This afternoon, about five thirty, before I served supper, I asked all three boys to come join us for the story. I only had one balk and he was pacified when we told him he could light the candles. We had two fights over who was sitting where on the couch during the story, but other than that our twenty minutes together was mostly nice.

Reality often clashes so resoundingly bad with the dreams we have for meaningful family time that we Moms are often tempted to give up, not try, and just give in to despair.

As my husband was attempting to reason with three very unreasonable boys determined not to give an inch just now, I yelled to him, “honey, let them fight it out, come in the bedroom with me, and we’ll lock ourselves in”. My husband being the more Christlike one in our marriage, said, “yeah that is really going to help”, and continued to teach the boys and settle the squabble.

I think the issue for me is that I have all these hopes and dreams for spending eternity with my children, but at times I just get so overwhelmed with them that I start dreaming of the time when they will be gone.

Right or wrong, that is the truth. I have determined that as a mother I love my babies until they are about four and a half, then slowly, year by year they start to get on my nerves.

Maybe the ancients had it right when boys were married at 18 and girls married at puberty.

Maybe we were never meant to live with our parents past a certain time. The biggest clashes at our house always involve the older children claiming the youngest is “spoiled”, and having major issues with perceived injustices in how they were raised as opposed to how the youngest is being nurtured.

Whew, didn’t mean to write a book, but I always appreciate your honesty.

A couple years ago we were very busy with multiple high schoolers, a very busy Christmas Concert Season (I sang with Colorado Repertory Singers as a soprano soloist), and just the normal crazy holiday schedule of a big family.  I suggested to the children that we were too busy to continue our Christmas Story tradition that year and told them we would try again another year.

Andrew protested very loudly against this choice.  Since this son of mine is rarely willing to voice his opinion on anything, willing to go along to get along on just about any issue that comes up in our family life, I felt like we owed it to him to continue with our tradition even if we missed a few nights.

So Andy saved the tradition and now it is so entrenched even the thought of missing this magical twenty minutes of Christmas Time together every night makes me feel sad.

That being said, it is still NOT easy to gather the boys to do anything.  The seem to revel in annoying each other.

Jenny Hatch

It contains our “year in review” video that highlights sports, my trip to Yellowstone with Jeff and Andy, Summer Camping, our daughters leaving for college, and Jeffs Court of Honor for his Eagle Scout Award in Scouts.

Enjoy!

Jenny Hatch