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”Special Delivery”: The Gift of Loving Your Best Birth (and Making Peace with Plan B)’ with Ina May Gaskin

Join us as we talk with Ina May Gaskin on API Live! - Click to listen now free of charge

Hear API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Barbara Nicholson and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian discuss natural birthing with Ina May Gaskin. They delve into:

* Knowing your body and your rights;

* How to have your baby with no regrets;

* What you won’t hear in your birthing classes;

* Why we get stuck in the perfect portrait of birth and how it’s not our true goal;

* Why things don’t always turn out the way we wanted them to (and that’s OK too);

* and MORE!

About Ina May Gaskin

Ina May Gaskin, MA, CPM, is founder and director of the Farm Midwifery Center, located near Summertown, Tennessee. Founded in 1971, by 1996, the Farm Midwifery Center had handled more than 2200 births, with remarkably good outcomes. Ms. Gaskin herself has attended more than 1200 births. She is author of Spiritual Midwifery and Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth. For twenty-two years she published Birth Gazette, a quarterly covering health care, childbirth and midwifery issues. She has lectured all over the world at midwifery conferences and at medical schools, both to students and to faculty. She was President of Midwives’ Alliance of North America from 1996 to 2002. In 1997, she received the ASPO/Lamaze Irwin Chabon Award and the Tennessee Perinatal Association Recognition Award. In 2003 she was chosen as Visiting Fellow of Morse College, Yale University.