My blogging skills have gone into hibernation and I will once again attempt to revive them for the upcoming year. My time seems to be swept away by births, phone calls and the constant studying that I must to in order to sit for my midwifery exam in 2011. Oh, and did I mention being a wife and mother too? However, writing has always been a passion of mine and it is so important never to let those things you are passionate about get lost in your responsibilities.
So, my other thoughts for the new year.......be a voice for birthing women. This year I would like to be involved in some activities that bring awareness to the importance of a woman's birth experience. I am thinking, perhaps, of collaborating with some other birth professionals to hold some community activities that would accomplish this. Stay tuned for more on that!
I will begin teaching prenatal yoga on a regular basis in January at Charlotte Family Yoga Center. I am very excited about this. Yoga is an excellent way to learn to listen to and work with your body. These are important skills for the laboring woman to have regardless of whether she intends to utilize pain medication, or have an unmedicated birth. Yoga helps with the common discomforts of pregnancy as well by strengthening the lower back, the pelvic floor, the shoulders and other areas of the body that typcially ache and ail while we are pregnant. I am excited about teaching yoga again and sharing this wonderful form of exercise with expecting moms.
Twenty eleven is looking to be an awesome year. I will be watching quite a few women whom I have already assisted deliver again! I can't believe I've been doing this long enough for that to be happening. It is so exciting and such an honor! I'm looking forward with anticipation and curiosity. Life is good. MY life is awesome!
