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| The First Annual Spirit of Birth Conference: Returning Birth To The Family August 23-25, 2002 Asheville, NC |
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| Wisdom & Stories of Traditional Midwifery with Sarahn Henderson |
| Sarahn Henderson has been a traditional midwife and postpartum doula for over twenty years. To keep Birth In The Tradition, the given name of her service, she has traveled to Jamaica, the Georgia Sea Islands, Ghana West Africa, and rural Georgia, studying and being among traditional childbirth care providers. She works in and around Atlanta to keep pregnancy sacred, meaningful, and respectfully within the family and community. Visit her website at www.birthinthetradition.com. Sarahn spoke as a keeper of childbirth wisdom and as one who leads sisters on an inner journey through pregnancy and birth, honoring it as a rite of passage. She reminded us of the importance of listening to the mothers we walk with, and of heeding our own inner voice. Together, we made medicine bundles as Sarahn and Grand Midwife Margaret Charles Smith shared their stories. |
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| It was a delight and an honor to watch these women interact. I love this series of pictures, taken as Mother Margaret shared some stories regarding birth positions. |
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| Sarahn gave us each tiny walking sticks for our medicine bundles. She also shared blue corn for the bags, which she had pre-sewn. Finally, she gave each woman a piece of rope or ribbon to use as a prayer rope. Each knot tied in the rope represented a specific prayer. The ribbon in her hands in many of these pictures is a piece of prayer rope. |
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