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A labor of love
childbirth education classes
By Pam Woolway - The Garden Island
Homebirth midwife Terry Nash will be joined by art therapist and birthing assistant Kim Miller and childbirth educator and birthing assistant Mary Moss for a seven-week creative education series on childbirth.
“We use stories, music, art as well as all the anatomical processes so you begin to open up to the internal process of birth,” said Nash who has been attending births since 1982.
Attendees do not have to be pregnant to participate though.
“Your own birth is a launching point,” said Miller. “It’s part of your personal history.”
This seven-week exploration will begin with a focus on birth stories of the participants.
“For any woman who wants to do inner exploration it begins at birth,” said Miller, who described one collaborative exercise the group will undertake. “We’ll pass around a nest that we’ll weave as each person tells the story of their birth.”
“We welcome people who want to explore and heal their own stories,” said Nash. “We’ve had massage therapists take it and women who are menopausal.”
Nash said, “Our own birth story tells us how we’ve been imprinted how the strands of our perceptions begin.”
She said that even if you don’t know your birth story that is your story.
“If you don’t know because you were adopted, that is a story you’ve been imprinted with,” she said.
Consecutive classes will focus on the role of nutrition, signs of labor what labor means for both the mother and the baby and what one can expect from a home or hospital birth.
Nash said she’ll educate expectant mothers on actions they can take to make their labor easier.
“It’s not something that happens to you labor is a relationship,” she said. “What is your relationship to pain or to your partner’s reaction? What are some skills to use during the labor and delivery process like how to deal with fear?”
Nash’s intent is to create a network of support for expectant mothers where pregnancy becomes a journey.
“We create a collaboration,” she said. “We cover resources like where to go, what to look for, how to care for a newborn and what is postpartum.”
She described the class as an opportunity for anyone to explore their own birth story.
“Birth is not just a physical event,” Nash said. “It has emotional, mental, spiritual, social and family intersections. From that story and listening to one another, we begin to understand our stories.”
Nash said the class is for anyone.
“It’s about understanding the birth process,” she said. “Birth has been reduced to a medical event with bits of information infused with fear. Information is not wisdom what you need at a birth is wisdom.”
“A labor of love childbirth education classes” begin March 27. The class is from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursdays through May 7 at Ala Palamea art studio at 4540 Fernandes St. in Kapaa. To register, call 346-5967 or e-mail kiminkauai@yahoo.com.
Pam Woolway, lifestyle writer, can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 257) or pwoolway@kauaipubco.com
By Pam Woolway - The Garden Island
Homebirth midwife Terry Nash will be joined by art therapist and birthing assistant Kim Miller and childbirth educator and birthing assistant Mary Moss for a seven-week creative education series on childbirth.
“We use stories, music, art as well as all the anatomical processes so you begin to open up to the internal process of birth,” said Nash who has been attending births since 1982.
Attendees do not have to be pregnant to participate though.
“Your own birth is a launching point,” said Miller. “It’s part of your personal history.”
This seven-week exploration will begin with a focus on birth stories of the participants.
“For any woman who wants to do inner exploration it begins at birth,” said Miller, who described one collaborative exercise the group will undertake. “We’ll pass around a nest that we’ll weave as each person tells the story of their birth.”
“We welcome people who want to explore and heal their own stories,” said Nash. “We’ve had massage therapists take it and women who are menopausal.”
Nash said, “Our own birth story tells us how we’ve been imprinted how the strands of our perceptions begin.”
She said that even if you don’t know your birth story that is your story.
“If you don’t know because you were adopted, that is a story you’ve been imprinted with,” she said.
Consecutive classes will focus on the role of nutrition, signs of labor what labor means for both the mother and the baby and what one can expect from a home or hospital birth.
Nash said she’ll educate expectant mothers on actions they can take to make their labor easier.
“It’s not something that happens to you labor is a relationship,” she said. “What is your relationship to pain or to your partner’s reaction? What are some skills to use during the labor and delivery process like how to deal with fear?”
Nash’s intent is to create a network of support for expectant mothers where pregnancy becomes a journey.
“We create a collaboration,” she said. “We cover resources like where to go, what to look for, how to care for a newborn and what is postpartum.”
She described the class as an opportunity for anyone to explore their own birth story.
“Birth is not just a physical event,” Nash said. “It has emotional, mental, spiritual, social and family intersections. From that story and listening to one another, we begin to understand our stories.”
Nash said the class is for anyone.
“It’s about understanding the birth process,” she said. “Birth has been reduced to a medical event with bits of information infused with fear. Information is not wisdom what you need at a birth is wisdom.”
“A labor of love childbirth education classes” begin March 27. The class is from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursdays through May 7 at Ala Palamea art studio at 4540 Fernandes St. in Kapaa. To register, call 346-5967 or e-mail kiminkauai@yahoo.com.
Pam Woolway, lifestyle writer, can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 257) or pwoolway@kauaipubco.com
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Ronald Pray wrote on Oct 17, 2009 5:14 AM:
I am a former U.S. Coast Guard Search and rescue team member at Barbers Point. I never read the scathing November 28 article about a rescue I did in 1977 while on leave.
In November of 1977 I had visited Kauai on leave and hiked the Na Pali coast to go camping. On the trail I saw some hikers in front of me ignore the cries of a man saying he was poisoned by mushrooms he had eaten. I know that there are many poisonous varieties from the orange mushrooms to the copelandia varieties which are deadly. I stopped and he was vomitting and telling me that he was dying. I laid my sleeping bag down onto the ground and made him comfortable then lit my coleman stove and cooked him soup to eat. He ate the soup and continued vomitting. He said that he needed immediate attention. I ecouraged him to vommit everything out of his stomache.
I asked him if he would be OK while I ran back to Haena for help and he said please do that.
I ran from his location sometimes skipping the zig-zags in the trails steep inclines jumping straight down to the trail below. I had injured my Achilles tendon by twisting my ankle which put me on light duty upon returning to Barbers Point.
I then knocked on the first door I found and asked them to contact the U.S. Coast Guard that there was a man stranded on the trail who needed immediate attention.
The Fire Department went in on the trail and found the man walking out on his own. This is why the writer in 1977 claimed that I had misread the situation and that is why he called my rescue "The Rescue that wasn't". I believe that had that man died, his death would have been on my ticket and given that rescuing folks was my business I had a responsibility to perform.
We may never know what part my inducing vomiting played in the recovery of this man. I'd like to believe that it played a major role in his quick recovery.
I am proud that I stood for the highest traditions of the U.S. Coast Guard on that fateful day on the Na Pali Coast.To this day, I have a lump in my Achilles Tendon which hurts on certain days to remind me of that day I ran into that man.
Malama Pono,
Former 3rd Class Petty Officer Ronald Pray "