Healthy Pregnancy Lecture!

Fearless Birth by Piper Lovemore **FREE**

Wednesday, March 2nd

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

As any pregnant women with a burgeoning belly can attest, there are a preponderance of frightening birth stories out there, and little apparent reluctance in sharing them. Yet birth itself is perhaps the one unequivocal commonality we all share; everyone on earth today was born. It is a completely normal physiological process with generations of proof of efficacy and yet many, if not most couples in our culture today approach their births with some degree of fear.  

So why the big freak out?
 
The single greatest factor in evaluating a successful birth experience is perception. A highly significant and momentous experience for all involved, it is also completely subjective. Whether it evokes a few minor concerns or conjures major anxiety, fear is a common companion in many births today. The root is, invariably, concern surrounding perceived pain and injury. And yet, the irony is that for most women, fear and pain have a self-fulfilling relationship to one another in birth. It’s the fear that creates the pain, and the ensuing pain that, in turn, validates the fear. So how to break this cycle?
 

Please join us as we explore this question!
 

We will:

• explore the common roots of fear
• identify the purpose of fear in the birth space
• explore the gifts fear has to offer
• Learn how to reframe our thinking 
• Learn how to experience birth beyond fear
• and ultimately gain the tools to clear its negative influence on the birth experience.

Come and learn ways to confront your fears  and pave the way for an empowered, in tune birth experience!

Piper Lovemore is a local doula, lamaze instructor, and natural birth advocate. She teaches classes and leads the doula tea events at Baby Awearness. Piper Lovemore is a woman with purpose. She is a passionate birth activist, an insightful educator and an empathic support person. 
 
Her core belief is that an informed experience is empowering, no matter the particular outcome. To that end, her goal is to educate and support families through their birth experience primarily through reconnecting them with their own embodied wisdom.
 
She is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator. Her courses cover fundamental information about pregnancy and birth, but also include interactive excersizes catering to a variety of learning styles, and her newest series features an innovative break-out module just for men.
 
She also has the priviledge of serving her community as a doula and feels honored to share such an intimate experience with her clients. She has added Placenta Encapsulation to her repertoire of services, to more comprehensively support our birthing community.
 
Piper believes deeply in the importance of community and the richness of a diverse support network. She strives to nurture her community by organizing and attending activities with her family in her free time.
 
She and her partner, Chaz, have three children: Che’ Pax, Plum and Rocket, and they look forward to expanding their family further. 
 

Doula Curious?

Doula Tea Time
Saturday, December 11th from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Enjoy some Earth Mama tea samples while learning all about doulas. Stop by the store and meet some of Honolulu's finest certified doulas and get all your questions answered. Find out how having a doula can be helpful to you and your partner and baby-to-come.

A few questions and topics to ask about:

• Who should come to my birth?
• Why hire a doula?
• What are the benefits of having a doula?
• Coping with labor, the doula way

Healthy Pregnancy Lecture: All About Doulas

Sunday, November 21st
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Led by: Kathy Julia, LMT, CD

Cost: FREE! 

Our next Healthy Pregnancy Lecture is all about doulas! Doula is a Greek word that refers to a woman who personally serves another woman. The word has evolved to encompass a woman who is experienced in childbirth, and who provides continuous physical, emotional and spiritual support to the mother, before, during, and after childbirth. Even today, Doulas can serve a great role in the labor and delivery experience. They are trained birth professionals who offer guidance, knowledge, and support to a mother as well as an expecting father. Join Kathy Julia, a certified Labor doula and trainer, for a conversation about the role of a doula in providing support to a birthing family. This is an amazing opportunity for anyone who is interested in having a doula at their birth or also in becoming one.

Kathy Julia is a Licensed Massage Therapist since 1978, a practitioner of Siddha Yoga since 1982, and a Certified Labor Doula and Labor Doula Trainer with Childbirth & Postpartum Professional Association (CAPPA). She is also a mother and grandmother. The combination of knowledge, skills and experience have called her to a strong sense of purpose to fulfill the need for educational, emotional and spiritual support to birthing families. She has helped countless families reduce the stress, fears and anxieties related to childbirth, empowering them to participate fully in their birthing process. 

To reserve a spot at the lecture, please call the store at 988-0010 or e-mail lani@babyawearness.com 

Coming up next: December 12th @ 6:30pm: Post-Partum Care with Tara Mattes, LAc

Born Two Birth Film Event

Join us for an educational documentary of natural childbirth. This presentation provides a view of a complete experience from prenatal preparation through 'live' birth with the mother and father's personal birth stories onto post-partum success.

Born Two Birth utilizes an artistic multimedia collage of a first baby home birth with a midwife, who in this case, delivered her own grandchild! In this unique and candid experience, the viewer is taken on an intimate journey through a process that is raw, natural, and normal.

A discussion and question/answer session to follow with starring mom & dad Kaja Gibbs-Davidson and Matthew Davidson along with midwives Kathe Gibbs (grandmother), Lori Kimata ND, and doula Jaymie Lewis will be present.

This is a great opportunity for couples as well as professionals who are interested in learning more about natural and home childbirth.

We hope you will join us for a great evening. No rsvp necessary.

For more information, please contact borntwobirth@gmail.com or the store at 988-0010.

Organic Birth - Film screening on Oct 16th

Hapai Hawai`i presents a film screening of Organic Birth (52 mins)
Saturday, October 16th at 6:45 p.m.
Cost: Free



ORGANIC BIRTH is a tighter, 52-minute updated version of the original 85-minute ORGASMIC BIRTH film. It has new expanded Midwife content and focuses more on the benefits of Midwife-Assisted and Natural Birth options than the original film. This shorter length will work better when used in Childbirth Education and it has easier chapter navigation for quickly accessing specific topics or scenes.

Immediately following we'll have a talk story with Piper and Chaz Lovemore who star in the film as well as other birth professionals.

*Bring your own refreshments, nursing babies in arms welcome

Healthy Pregnancy Lecture on Sept 26th

This month's topic will explore an expecting mother's options to have a home or hospital birth with a midwife.

Sunday, September 26th
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Led by: Dr. Madeleine Portuando and Reagan Turner Bell

Cost: FREE!

Curious about having a birth experience with a midwife? Whether at home or a hospital setting, you can have the birth of your choice with one of Honolulu's finest practicing midwives. Though the natural birthing community is still small in Hawaii, it is a growing circle that includes seasoned midwives who can guide expecting parents through a personal, meaningful, and healthy labor and delivery.

Join us for a conversation and Q & A session with two of Honolulu's midwives. Dr. Portuando is a local naturopathic doctor and midwife who also leads our very popular vaccine lecture. Reagan Turner Bell practices with the new midwifery services available at Kaiser Medical Center.

To reserve a spot at the lecture, please contact 988-0010 or lani@babyawearness.com

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Next month: Pregnancy Nutrition with Kate Greenwell, October 17th

Don't Miss This One-Time Event!

Michel Odent Will Be In Town!

For over 50 years, Michel Odent has been a driving force behind the worldwide movement to normalize childbirth. He is the author of 11 books in 21 languages on pregnancy, labor, birth, breastfeeding, oxytocin, and love. Home birth-like settings and the popularity of water birth are attributed to his influences. He founded the Primal Health Research Centre (London) testing the assumption that human health is shaped during the primal period: fetal life, the perinatal period and the first year of life. He has appeared in many documentaries and films including “Birth Reborn” and “The Business of Being Born."

University of Hawaii at Manoa's Architecture Hall
July 31st - 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Cost $20/pre-sale ticket  OR  $25 at the door

Purchase your tickets here. (Please print your receipt and bring to the door for entry)