

Women Talking by Kristin Woolf
Leaking urine! This is way too important NOT to talk about! If you or any woman you know has had to deal with this then you owe it to yourself to read this short article. Pelvic organ prolapse is often a long slow process which frequently leads to dangerous surgery. It is believed that between 50% and 80% of all women will experience some movement of their pelvic organs: bladder, uterus and rectum. This can affect women of all ages. The first symptoms typically are peeing a l


Humanizing Birth by Marcy Andrew
I’d been called to assist at a birth on a late summer Northern New Mexico day and I was thrilled. The client’s neighbor had agreed to meet me at the main road to make sure I’d find the house okay so I followed his rickety rusty pickup truck on a long winding dirt road with many unmarked turns, through a creek and past an orchard to the one room mud casita where the young couple labored silently. As the potent force of labor surrounded them, this couple was actively attainin


God Is the Water by Lyla June Johnston
God is the Water When I close my eyes at night I can feel the rock being cut open by water. I hear a grandfather song and it sounds like sand walking down the river bottom. In this song they talk about how even the mighty canyon rivers began as a meandering stream. Beneath the gentle waters there are people. Not people like you and I. Stone people. When I close my eyes at night I am one of them and God is the water. Over lifetimes She eats at me until I am polished and smooth


Red Raspberry Leaf
Red raspberry leaf is known as the most widely beneficial and safest of all uterine pregnancy and tonic herbs. It contains an alkaloid called fragrine which tones pelvic muscles and the uterus. It is viewed by many as the most important herb women can take for overall uterine health. For centuries it has been used as a remedy to increase fertility by aiding in detoxification of extra hormones that may impede conception. More recently, raspberry leaf is being recommended in p