Birth Coaching in Budapest & Bath • Réka Gáborjáni

12/02/2023

Highly recommended. Watch it for free for 48 hours on this page:

Zoe Naylor, Jerusha Sutton and Jo Hunter embark on a mission to find out why an increasing number of women/people are emerging from their births physically and emotionally traumatised.Their discoveries expose the truth and lead them to join the birth revolution and create this Birth Time education ...

11/02/2023

Amazing story, incredible bravery. Badass ancient Greek women! :)

https://www.facebook.com/whuhts/photos/a.236614309874898/1970712723131706/

In ancient Greece, women were forbidden to study medicine for several years until someone broke the law. Born in 300 BCE, Agnodice cut her hair and entered Alexandria medical school dressed as a man. While walking the streets of Athens after completing her medical education, she heard the cries of a woman in labour. However, the woman did not want Agnodice to touch her although she was in severe pain, because she thought Agnodice was a man. Agnodice proved that she was a woman by removing her clothes without anyone seeing and helped the woman deliver her baby.
The story would soon spread among the women and all the women who were sick began to go to Agnodice. The male doctors grew envious and accused Agnodice, whom they thought was male, of seducing female patients. At her trial, Agnodice, stood before the court and proved that she was a woman but this time, she was sentenced to death for studying medicine and practicing medicine as a woman.
Women revolted at the sentence, especially the wives of the judges who had given the death penalty. Some said that if Agnodice was killed, they would go to their deaths with her. Unable to withstand the pressures of their wives and other women, the judges lifted Agnodice's sentence, and from then on, women were allowed to practice medicine, provided they only looked after women.
Thus, Agnodice made her mark in history as the first Greek female doctor, physician and gynecologist. This plaque depicting Agnodice at work was excavated at Ostia, Italy.

14/05/2021

https://www.instagram.com/p/CO3JTYiApGw/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

11/03/2021

https://theconversation.com/pandemic-babies-how-covid-19-has-affected-child-development-155903

The babies born since March 11 2020 have faced a unique set of challenges.

09/03/2021

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-the-unusual-ways-western-parents-raise-children

From sleeping in separate beds to their children to transporting them in prams, Western parents have some unusual ideas about how to raise them

24/02/2021

Excellent podcast with Spinning Babies Aware Practitioner nurse Ann Gilligan with some shocking statistics along the way. Worth the listen!

EBB 165 – Fetal Position During Labor with L&D Nurse, Ann Marie Gilligan by Rebecca Dekker | Feb 24, 2021 | Podcast Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe to our podcast: iTunes | Stitcher On today’s podcast, we talk with L&D nurse, Ann Gilligan, about perinatal positioning during labor. Ann is a la...

14/09/2020

“These women were voiceless, unable even to speak in their own defence. We need to publicly recognise the terrible wrong done to them.”

Lawyer seeks pardon for 2,500 Scots who were tortured and killed in ‘satanic panic’ begun by James VI

30/01/2020

A witch is a woman who has too much power. Or, to quote the novelist Madeline Miller, a woman with “more power than men have felt comfortable with”.

Vengeful, seductive, feminist, misogynist ... witches have appeared in many forms in literature. Now a new generation of novelists are falling under their spell

25/01/2020

"One of the villagers told her that the night someone dies, everyone in the village moves a piece of furniture or something else into their yard. The next day, when the bereaved family wakes up and looks outside, they see that everything has changed since their loved one died—not just for them but for everyone. That’s how these communities witness, and mirror, grief. They are showing in a tangible way that someone’s death matters. The loss is made visible."

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. –Elie Wiesel Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share …

24/01/2020

"It's time that we stop telling moms that a simple act of self-care will undo the years of culture-induced overwhelm that is causing us all to burn out.

There is no bubble bath that will hush the constant underlying buzz of anxiety.

There is no girls-weekend-away that will undo the isolation of a fourth trimester spent without a village.

There is no nap that will revive the energy poured into balancing a career with motherhood.

There is no glass of wine that will ease the accumulating effect of all the ailments we "haven't had time to see a doctor about."

Moms are burnt out, and our society needs to start caring."

Thanks to Claire Baker for sharing this.

Society is asking you to nurture in an environment that does not nurture you back.