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EcoBirth
Updates and Plans
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Greetings!
It is so good to communicate with you
again. Lots of activity brewing with EcoBirth- gestation would be a
good descriptive word for it! Welcome to our newsletter updates
which I will send out periodically, please unsubscribe below if you
would rather not receive them.
I have built out our presence on FaceBook , You Tube and Twitter. I would press you to
click into these links and follow EcoBirth! And be sure to LIKE
and repost any interesting parts that you see, to spread the word
about EcoBirth. Soon I will be posting portions of my presentation
A Mother'
Legacy-a Precautionary Tale on EcoBirth Blog - watch for
the four generations of my family photos and the research upon
which I based the presentation, as well as the websites that have
the most helpful information on how to live a toxic-free life
today. There is quite a bit of information on the EcoBirth Blog
including a calendar of recommended events, books we like and tips
on living a non-toxic life. Soon you will
hear about a new event in the East Bay in collaboration with Center
for Environmental Health and MOMS MAKING MILK
SAFE.
Please take a look at this
video to see the loveliness of birthing without interventions,
surrounded and delivered by love! Birth Day.
and see this wonderfully moving scene of a baby's first bath Bathing in Liquid Mind..
And I think this short and poignant video from Healthy Child, Healthy World
is completely on point for EcoBirth.
My goodwill to you all and hope we will collaborate and brain-storm
on the growth of EcoBirth's presence to the betterment of this
world!
Molly Arthur
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Tea & Discussion,
Sunday, September 19, 3-5
pm
How Did I Miss All This Before? Waking
Up to the Magic of Our Ordinary Lives, By Alexandra
Kennedy
Tea and Discussion is
being offered at Molly Arthur's home in Tiburon on Sunday, Sept 19
with author and therapist Alexandra Kennedy, whose book "How Did I
Miss All This Before?" is a riveting account about how to live in
the real world with wonder and alertness. She has written about
life's transitions and will lead us in a small group discussion
that touches on the spiritual aspects of birth and parenting and
letting go of your grown child. This will be a benefit for EcoBirth's
production of Dr Sandra Steingraber's lecture. A donation of $5-20
will be collected and Alexandra's book will also be available for
purchase.Alexandra's website with book
info.
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Tea &
Discussion
Tiburon, California
Sunday, Sept 19, 3-5 pm
RSVP mollyarthur536@yahoo.com for directions |
EcoBirth
presents,Friday, October 1, 7:00-8:30 pm
A Mother's Legacy- A Precautionary Tale
You are invited to a special event in the
First Friday Community Night Lecture Series at the Salmon Creek
Falls Environmental Center, in Occidental, CA , 1935 Bohemian
Highway, Occidental, CA
Molly Arthur will present the latest for parents regarding steps
for a healthy environment, healthy moms, safe births and protecting
your children from toxins. The presentation is centered on the
story of women in one San Francisco family that links the possible
effects of toxins and adverse interventions during their
pregnancies, births and childhood through three generations. With
an emphasis on current concerns, preventions and protections for
the fourth generation.
Learn where to find out about the toxins in your own neighborhood.
What products do you need to eliminate in your life? What are the
safest birth options available to you now? What is your passion
that will help create a better world for your children?
There will be handouts on what you can do to create a safer,
non-toxic life.
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Molly Arthur
EcoBirth
presentation and discussion
Salmon Creek Environmental Center
1935 Bohemian Highway,
Occidental, CA
Friday, Oct. 1
7:00 pm
Donation $5-20
RSVP
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I am particularly honored to bring Dr.
Sandra Steingraber to San Francisco on Oct 28. She has been a
seminal leader in the environmental health movement. She is a
biologist, journalist and riveting speaker about the environmental
influences on our health. And most importantly for EcoBirth, she
can speak to the health of our developing babies and children from
her experience and profession. A feature-length film was launched
this spring based on her book about her journey with cancer, Living Downstream.
In her book, Having Faith: An
Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood, Steingraber explores the
intimate ecology of motherhood. She also reveals the alarming
extent to which environmental hazards-from industrial poisons in
amniotic fluid to the toxic contamination of breast milk- now
imperil each crucial stage of infant development. In the eyes of an
ecologist, a mother's body is the environment, and its one that
should be inviolate.
You can visit her website and blog
here.
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Dr.
Sandra Steingraber
biologist,
mother and award-wining author
The
Intimate Ecology of Motherhood
One
of our nation's most inspiring
leaders
of the environmental health movement-
called
The
"Rachel Carson of our day" by
the Sierra Club.
With
a panel of local experts from the environmental, birthing and
medical communities answering your questions on how to live a
safer, non-toxic life.
Thursday,
Oct. 28, 2010, 7:30 pm
at
the Jewish Community Center San Francisco,
3200
California St. San Francisco, CA 94118
Buy
your ticket now, only $18 -
phone
415.292.1233 or click
http://ecobirth.blogspot.com/
molly6@pacbell.net,
415-435-8031
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Directions to JCCSF
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Dear Sponsors,
Thank you so much for your support and promotion of Dr.
Steingraber's appearance in San Francisco on October 28. I salute
your good work to create a healthier, more just and safe world. We
support you!
I look forward to your pariticipation at
the Steingraber lecture, Oct 28 with handouts and more information
on the work you are doing.
Great Job!
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Please BUY your ticket to this important
appearance of Dr. Sandra Steingraber at this
link
Buy ticket $18
and pass out the flyer
Steingraber lecture flyer
You can also include this copy about the lecture in your newsletter
to help promote it!
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Below is a recent Blog entry, click through to see the most
current entry about my granddaughter's arrivals!
I feel as if I am in a numinous space and time, waiting for my
granddaughters to be born (yes girl twins, natural and
fraternal-sororal, if you ask! due now). I see them in my
daughter-in-law's belly and feel them move and kick . " There's the
butt, there's one head, there's the other head!" Anticipation is
delicious in a certain way.
But they are not here yet, even though they are alive and kicking!
And I do not have the physical, embodied relationship with them,
that I had with my two children. So I am not sure how I feel, but
the feeling is intense and moving. When they come into this realm,
I will be immediately different too, a grandmother. Our
relationship will be immutable, unchangeable, and there are very
few unchangeable things in this world. I cannot even call their
names, and I cannot know who they will look like.
It is such a transition time, germinating, not really fallow, but
yes, they are seeds that have been growing in the dark, protective
womb of their mother. Right now all that they need and their
potential life story is contained and held. Somehow their spark of
life happened, through love, I believe. But there is the biology of
it too, that manifests this mysterious life force. And this biology
can be effected by outside forces, not by the conscious will of
their mother, not by any truly rational choices of our culture and
influenced by place and time.
I believe this changeable biology creates a responsibility on me,
because I would never want an action that I do to harm my
grandchildren. But I know I have done harmful things and continue
to do them. I realize that how I live on this earth is what my
granddaughters will inherit. I understand that my relationship
with my all-encompassing Mother Earth somehow is immutable too,
just like my relationship with my granddaughters. And I feel that
my Mother Earth, who holds and nurtures and feeds me is beneficent.
She would not want to harm either, yet she accepts what is
happening to her, with involuntary surrender.
I understand that I hurt my environment with my choices or
ignorance. And those choices invade my daughter-in-law's body and
my grandchildren's development. This is not right on so many
levels, perhaps that is why this is such an emotional time for me.
I am so close to the effects of my actions being exhibited in my
granddaughters. Yes, that is it.
I am conscious of the delicate dance with my daughter-in-law of
being helpful, not pushy, supportive but not being a know-it-all;
understanding that I have a unique relationship with these as yet
unborn creatures, that confers a particular joy and responsibility
that only I have. Perhaps if I keep this numinous space in my
awareness, I will better understand what I can do to help my earth
and my grandchildren. Then when the embodied birth happens, like my
granddaughters very physical appearance in this realm, I will also
realize and do what is real in this world to help all my relations
and my sustaining mother earth.
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EcoBirth
We want to ensure that there are no more toxins in
our bodies or in our developing babies. We want our babies born in
a caring, natural way and raised in a safe, non-toxic world. Help
us protect our earth, our babies and birth. Pure Life: a clean
world, safe births and healthy
children.
EcoBirth
is
the study of and practice in Deep Womb Ecology. It links and
relates the environments of Earth and Birth.
EcoBirth
recognizes
that the experience of childbirth is an indicator of how we care
for mothers, babies and the earth.
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Molly
Arthur
mollyarthur536@yahoo.com
415-435-8031
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