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What is The Birth Project?
We are a quarterly magazine that talks about and normalizes birth and issues around birth. We find it odd that
women are asked to give birth having never seen a live birth. Childbirth is made to be trivial and scary by popular
culture, our peers, our family and even strangers. Most women don't think much about actually giving birth until
their first childbirth education class at 6 months pregnant if they take a class at all. Or they try to read every book
on the shelf in the library or book store trying to "prepare" for the big day. For most men it is even worse having
never ovulated or bled themselves, the idea of growing a human and bringing forth life via the vagina they hold dear
is to say the least overwhelming.
Why is childbirth not a normal part of our upbringing? Why is childbirth education not part of our sex ed in 7th
grade? Why do people not know about certified nurse midwives, home birth midwives, or doulas and how they are
different from each other and how they can make a difference in outcomes for normal birth? Why don't people
understand the role of good food and health including pregnancy? Why can't people hear or say the word vulva
without snickering? Why do women lack the confidence in themselves and their bodies to do what it knows how
to do? Why do we not talk about abortion as an emotional issue rather than just as a political or religious issue?
Why cant we talk about miscarriage or loss in later pregnancy? Why are we so driven by fear when we talk about
birth? Why do we not know our mothers and grandmothers birth stories?
We want to demystify childbirth. We want to make it a part of our entire life not just the "childbearing year"
-embracing the women before us and the women who birth after us as opposed to scaring and disempowering. We
don't want to spout off statistics or research or shove our opinions down anyones throat in judgment. We are here
to chat, to discuss, to ponder over the state of things and how they can evolve and grow.
You can check us out for free. Email us your snail mail address and we will mail you a free issue for you to read
amanda@birthproject.com.
We want to hear from you. We are a magazine for everyone by everyone.
Send us your articles, prose, poetry, artwork, photography, tell us about your organization or work you do in birth
- Send your submissions to submissions@birthproject.com.
We are a quarterly magazine that talks about and normalizes birth and issues around birth. We find it odd that
women are asked to give birth having never seen a live birth. Childbirth is made to be trivial and scary by popular
culture, our peers, our family and even strangers. Most women don't think much about actually giving birth until
their first childbirth education class at 6 months pregnant if they take a class at all. Or they try to read every book
on the shelf in the library or book store trying to "prepare" for the big day. For most men it is even worse having
never ovulated or bled themselves, the idea of growing a human and bringing forth life via the vagina they hold dear
is to say the least overwhelming.
Why is childbirth not a normal part of our upbringing? Why is childbirth education not part of our sex ed in 7th
grade? Why do people not know about certified nurse midwives, home birth midwives, or doulas and how they are
different from each other and how they can make a difference in outcomes for normal birth? Why don't people
understand the role of good food and health including pregnancy? Why can't people hear or say the word vulva
without snickering? Why do women lack the confidence in themselves and their bodies to do what it knows how
to do? Why do we not talk about abortion as an emotional issue rather than just as a political or religious issue?
Why cant we talk about miscarriage or loss in later pregnancy? Why are we so driven by fear when we talk about
birth? Why do we not know our mothers and grandmothers birth stories?
We want to demystify childbirth. We want to make it a part of our entire life not just the "childbearing year"
-embracing the women before us and the women who birth after us as opposed to scaring and disempowering. We
don't want to spout off statistics or research or shove our opinions down anyones throat in judgment. We are here
to chat, to discuss, to ponder over the state of things and how they can evolve and grow.
You can check us out for free. Email us your snail mail address and we will mail you a free issue for you to read
amanda@birthproject.com.
We want to hear from you. We are a magazine for everyone by everyone.
Send us your articles, prose, poetry, artwork, photography, tell us about your organization or work you do in birth
- Send your submissions to submissions@birthproject.com.
| The Birth Project is a quarterly print magazine that can show up at your house for just $14 a year. |
| Sample Articles |
| Check us out! Come hear us on a podcast at www.communityrecordsmusic.com Amanda Topping and Kate Stroud chat with Amy Morgan about Birth, Midwifery, Doulas and The Birth Project. |
Myth Buster:
Do Headlines Lie?
There’s nothing that can make a birth
junkie’s blood boil faster than reading
stories about childbirth in the popular
press (except perhaps watching A
Baby Story or Maternity Ward on
TV). Read more...
Do Headlines Lie?
There’s nothing that can make a birth
junkie’s blood boil faster than reading
stories about childbirth in the popular
press (except perhaps watching A
Baby Story or Maternity Ward on
TV). Read more...
Consumer First,
Patient Second
Finding the right care
provider for your pregnancy
and birth
I had a long conversation with my
friend, Pam, the other night. She is in
her final month of pregnancy, with
her first baby, who is in breech
position. Read more...
Patient Second
Finding the right care
provider for your pregnancy
and birth
I had a long conversation with my
friend, Pam, the other night. She is in
her final month of pregnancy, with
her first baby, who is in breech
position. Read more...
Why Babies Don’t
Sleep Through the
Night
I can shoot a running millipede with a
BB gun from a dozen feet away.
I couldn’t do this before my son was
born. Read more...
Sleep Through the
Night
I can shoot a running millipede with a
BB gun from a dozen feet away.
I couldn’t do this before my son was
born. Read more...
Simulacrum
Imagine giving a young child a
watermelon Jolly Rancher and
explaining, “Here. This is
watermelon.”
Read more...
Imagine giving a young child a
watermelon Jolly Rancher and
explaining, “Here. This is
watermelon.”
Read more...
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| In This Issue: I’m Comin’ Out Late September 2003 S-E-X After Children... Put Down That Turkey Baster! More Than Ever A Modern day Witch Hunt Healthy Eats: Calcium & Magnesium Losing The Big Game Intuition: Learning to Trust Myself In The News |
| Submit your writings or art for our Summer 2009 issue. Deadline is July 7th 2009 We would love to hear from you! |
