Welcome to new dig sponsor Birth Works International, a non-profit organization that “empowers women to confidently tap into their inner resources, their innate awareness of how to birth.”
Birth Works offers childbirth classes, educational resources as well as Childbirth Educator and Doula certification programs. In their words, “Birth Works seeks to facilitate a woman’s personal process, not to impart a preconceived method of labor and childbirth.” I so love that sentiment. This organization is all about education and empowerment in birthing, a subject that is dear to my mama heart.
Birth Works is generously offering dig readers $25 off the cost of the Childbirth Educator Certification course for any reader that contacts them (email [email protected] or phone 1-888 TO BIRTH) and mentions ‘dig this chick’.
Also! You have a chance to win Birthing In The Spirit, a book written by Cathy Daub (BirthWorks President). Leave a comment and a winner will be randomly selected on Monday, June 17. If you’d like, let us know the best birth related book you have read.
Thank you, Birth Works!
COMMENTS CLOSED. Winner, selected by random.org:
#7, Annastacia said…
I loved the book “Our bodies ourselves” by the Boston Women’s clinic. It was very inspiring and encouraging!
Congrats! Email me at [email protected] to claim your prize.
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I really loved the book “from the hip” during my pregnancy.
I just had an amazing unmedicated hospital VBAC – such a transformative experience! I read tons of material during my pregnancy to prepare – I especially liked Ina May and Henci Goer’s books.
Hoping for a vbac in Nov and will read anything I can find!
Not a mom yet, but the hope is there. 🙂
Thanks for sharing!
Holly Bazan
I really liked Sears’s “The Birth Book” for it’s practical tips, but mostly I liked hearing other moms stories 🙂 Going to birth meetings and reading natural birth stories online inspired me.
So far, my favorite birth book is Ina May’s Guide to Child Birth. It gave me the extra boost in confidence that homebirth is for us. I would really love to check this book out.
I loved the book “Our bodies ourselves” by the Boston Women’s clinic. It was very inspiring and encouraging!
I’ll second Ina May’s book!
Also – the birthwork links at the top has an extraneous blogger URL at the front, so it doesn’t actually work.
I really loved The Girlfriends Guide to Pregnancy” because it helped me with things the “regular” books didn’t talk about. All done having babies but my sister in law is due in August, I would love to send your book to her. I truly believe it is what our bodies are meant to do, if you remember that it is soooo muc easier. Great partnership Dig!
My favorite is a book written by a midwife in San fransisco that really paved the way for getting respect and rights for midwives. It’s called “catching babies” by peggy vincent. a great read.
i would love to read this book too 🙂
~meaghan
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What a fantastic sponsor! I went the way of using the Hypnobirthing with my son and absolutely loved it. A friend of mine is now pregnant and wanting to go the more ‘natural’ way of things. This book would be great for her!
what a lovely sponsor! after my blood preasure raised the roof, my son’s birth was a hot medical mess! if i ever have the chance to give birth again, i am hoping for an experience like this 🙂
This is timely, I am just now starting to look into Doula training 🙂
Thanks Nicci.
~Cindy
Would love to read birthing in the spirit : ) My favorite birth related book is “Food of Love”. It’s an awesome cartoon breastfeeding book. Great to read in pregnancy to prepare for breastfeeding. And it’s the kind of book everyone can love and enjoy. Highly recommended : )
I would love to read this book! I’m expecting my first baby in December and am planning a natural birth with a midwife (hopefully in a birthing tub).
Didn’t have a great first birthing experience 2 1/2 years ago. Trying to conceive now and would like a natural VBAC with a doula. I’m encouraged to read that others have done it!
Nici, You & I had an email exchange not long after I found out I was pregnant a few months back. I appreciated your insight & the time you took to respond to my questions! My husband & I are planning a home birth & are in the midst of the hypnobabies class preparing for the birth in 2 1/2 months. We love it so far, & have a midwife whom we also adore. I have really enjoyed the hypnobabies material, as well as the books Ina May wrote. I’d love to read this as well!
Thanks!
I’d LOVE to win this book!! I had a c/s, then medicated VBAC, now I’m going for an unmedicated VBAC! This time, I’ve read tons and would have to say the Ina May books are my favorite!
Wow! Look at all these VBACers!! I had an amazing birth-center, midwife-attended VBAC 6 months ago. It was such an incredible experience. The best thing for me was to read *positive* birth stories (I’ll link to mine). I have read SO MANY birth-related books (and would love to read more), but if I had to choose one: Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth.
My VBAC birth story: http://www.clovescorner.blogspot.com/search/label/Birth%20story
As a pre natal yoga teacher and a doula i have read so many great books but the one that stands up above all the reast is still Gurmukh’s “Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful” . Its about life, not just yoga or pregnancy and when I struggled to find any connection to my second daughter during pregnancy this book changed it dramatically.
Dr Gowri Motha is also fantastic for pregnancy and the first year with baby..although i do like Ina Mays books they were a bit too left wing for me..(and i am a homebirth advocate, had one, wanted second one to be. Green grower, a yoga and all around lefty!)
Thank you for the chance to win
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth was my birthing bible 🙂 I recommend it to all of my friends who are expecting!
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