Tie-dyed Doula

I am a “variegated” pattern most of the time, just as what occurs when Tie-Dyeing. My patterns are a little bold and bright here and there, a little pale and wrinkled in other areas. Below are some of the thoughts and fabrics of my life. I hope you can enjoy and appreciate all of the colors.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Introducing Willow Psalm Kamaria

This precious butterfly girl came into our lives on December 17th 2010 at 4:50am. I know that I am like 4 months late in posting this breaking news, but this blog has been put on hold while I readjust to life with a newborn. She is the sweetest babe and we are all totally in love. I'll post more pics and my birth story in a future post. Deeply in love, Shawna

Posted by tie-dyed doula at 6:55 PM

Labels: birth stories, MY LITTLE SLICES OF HUMANITY

1 comments:

dmcL said...: Congratulations!! Welcome earthside, Willow Psalm! You have a beautiful and blessed name!; April 15, 2011 9:33 AM

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ZARIAN

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ZACCAI

my ocean

ZACCAI'S HOME BIRTH

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tie-dyed doula: I love to create things: food, medicine, colors, yarn, babies. I am a mother, in love w/the hippie that I married, an activist for the earth & all its inhabitants, aspiring beekeeper, birth warrior, birth & postpartum doula, herbalist, home birth/home school and breastfeeding advocate, aspiring midwife, self proclaimed birth junkie, friend and a tree huggin supporter of missionaries. HOT tea drinker, book lover, thinker. I strive daily to meet and greet the Lord for His Grace, wisdom and protection. I also strive/struggle to live gently and to please Him. I am a Co-Director of a doula Co-Op called Babymoon Doulas and you can visit our Website @ www.babymoondoulas.org email me @ sealingkemp@gmail.com

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I am an inquiring mind, in awe of God and all of his creations...

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In our society…
HUMAN LIVES truly are the “endangered species”
Seriously IN…DANGER!!!

Let’s advocate on behalf of the animal kingdom, their rights to live and graze and multiply, our earth, our rivers and oceans AS WELL as the HUMAN species. ~Shawna Sealing Kemp

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I LOVE DIRTY FEET

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"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." ~Kahlil Gibran

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We are only visitors here on Earth. Let's act like guests and treat our hostess with respect
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"You are a midwife, assisting at someone else's birth. Do good without show or fuss. Facilitate what is happening rather than what you think ought to be happening. If you must take the lead, lead so that the mother is helped, yet still free and in charge. When the baby is born, the mother will rightly say: 'We did it ourselves!'"
	-The Tao Te Ching

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Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being ~ Kitti Franz

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QUOTE: “EDUCATION IS NOT THE FILLING OF A PAIL, BUT THE LIGHTING OF A FIRE” ~W.B.YEATS

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“I believe that how we are born, and the manner in which we enter this world, is our first impression of the human race. It stamps impressions upon the blueprint of our life” –Shawna Sealing Kemp

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THE FACT THAT WHEN A BABY IS BORN, AND KNOWS INSTINCTIVELY HOW TO SUCKLE AT MAMA’S BREAST WITHIN MINUTES AFTER BIRTH, CAUSING THE UTERUS TO CONTRACT TO EXPEL THAT GLORIOUS PLACENTA, IS NO SMALL THING

-SHAWNA SEALING KEMP

JUST THINKING...

There are more than 40 countries

Where it is safer to be born than in the US*

*The World Fact Book Updated July 2006

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html

LET’S GET EDUCATED

IT’S TIME TO MAKE DECISIONS

LET’S WORK TOGETHER TO CREATE CHANGE

~Shawna Sealing Kemp

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QUOTE: “MAN CANNOT FEED THE BABY WITHIN THE UTERUS. WHAT JUSTIFIES HIS PRESUMPTION THAT HE IS ABLE TO IMPROVE UPON THE PHYSIOLOGICAL PROVISION BECAUSE THE CHILD HAS RECENTLY LEFT THE UTERUS?

WE CAN FORTIFY AND REINFORCE WITH CERTAIN SUBSTANCES THE ADEQUACY OF BOTH THE PLACENTAL AND THE BREAST NUTRITION, BUT THE BASIC NATURAL NOURISHMENT SUPPLIES SOMETHING NO CONCOCTION CAN CONTAIN” ~DR. GRANTLY DICK-REED, MD

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"...if a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it" ----John H. Kennell, MD

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"Childbirth is the eye of the needle through which all of society passes ..."
	-Norma Swenson

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LIFE ISN'T ABOUT WAITING FOR THE STORM TO PASS. IT'S ABOUT LEARNING TO DANCE IN THE RAIN!

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"Not to know is bad. Not to want to know is worse. Not to hope is unthinkable. Not to care is unforgivable." --Nigerian saying

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“Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” -Mark Twain

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"Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people." --Henry Kissinger

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"We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into PEACE" ~ M. Franti

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"Support farms, not pharmaceuticals" ~shawna sealing kemp

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"Only when the last tree has died And the last river has been poisoned And the last fish has been caught Will we realize We cannot eat money" ~ Cree Indian Expression

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If every U.S. Citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week. ~from the book: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Kingsolver

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Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in sunset like supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep. -Rumi

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"those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music" -Angela Monet

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"By firelight, an old rag looks like sturdy hemp fabric." (Corsican proverb)

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I wonder what I did for God today: How many times did I once pause and pray? But I must find and serve Him in these ways, For life is made of ordinary days. —Macbeth

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"one result of turning a blind eye to the horrors of the world, because you can stand only so much, is that you end up forgetting that each individual who is subjected to heinous suffering is your fellow,your equal,& that you could have been... in their shoes,& that he or she could one day have become your friend" ~Stolen Lives 20 Yrs in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir & Michele Fitoussi. Reading this book & weeping...Read More

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"Classify these as good times...I'm not cold, I'm not wet, I'm not hungry, Good Times" ~Willie Nelson

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What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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"Power to the peaceful, love to the peaceful" ~michael franti

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"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." ~Psalm 139:13-14

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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." Martin Luther

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The family is the building block of society. It is a nursery, a school, a hospital, a leisure centre, a place of refuge and a place of rest. It encompasses the whole of the society. It fashions our beliefs; it is the preparation for the rest of our life. ~Margaret Thatcher

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"No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to ...others is that it makes them kind themselves." - Amelia EarhartRead More

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"Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day." -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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RED ONIONS: Oh, my sweet little Red Onion, tangy yet sweet. I love you so much, but don't tell your thin skinned, tearful, white counterpart. ~shawna sealing kemp

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"Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months goes a long way toward canceling out the health differences between being born into poverty and being born into affluence." James P. Grant, Past Executive Director, UNICEF

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"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known." ~Winnie the Pooh~

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"I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds." Robert Bridges, "Testament of Beauty"

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"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." ...~Atticus Finch, From Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird~

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"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office." ----- Shirley MacLaine

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"If people knew this, if they knew that we were all from the same family, would they be kinder to one another, do you think?"-"Im sure they would. If they knew that, then they would find it very difficult to do unkind things to others.... They might even want to help them a bit more" ~Alexander Mccall Smith in Morality for Beautiful Girls-The no 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

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It is a life of Faith, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us "go." The root of faith is the knowledge of a Person, and one of the biggest snares is the idea that God is sure to lead us to success. Oswald Chambers

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Margaret Mead (1901-1978) Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead (1901-1978) quoted in John M. RIchardson, ed. Making it Happen, 1982

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"One day people would no longer do this;they would no longer go out to the lands for the planting, and they would buy their food in stores, as people did in town. But what a loss for the country that would be;what friendship, and solidarity, an...d feeling for the land would be sacrificed if that were to happen" ~Alexander McCall Smith Morality for Beautiful Girls

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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." ~Carl Sagan

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Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.

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"The best thing one can do when it's raining, is to let it rain." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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All I can do is be me, whoever that is. ~ Bob Dylan

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"Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry." -Alvin Price

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The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to fig...ure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck

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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” Albert Camus

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Baby Boy # 3 (age 3) said this to me: "Mama, I am so proud of you and you are the best BOY ever" (giggle) ♥

QUOTE FROM THE SONG: THE WAY HE LOVES US

"Heaven meets earth, like an unforeseen kiss, And my heart turns violently inside of my chest. I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way.....That He loves us"

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“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” ~Henry Miller

spring...

Just arrived home to naked phatty baby legs covered in mud, Jimmy Cliff on the speakers outside, hubs uncovering the gardens and a lil explorer fixing up his downed tree house with new leaf decorations. :) oh the joy of sunshine and the magic of childhood. ♥
3-2010

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Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance. -- Milton R. Saperstein

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♥ Baby Boy #3 (fresh new 3 years of age) just asked me: "Mama, can I call you 'Friend'?" ahhhh, melt my heart ♥

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Nonviolence does not mean non-action. Nonviolence means we act with love and compassion ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” ♥ “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” (smile!) ~Dr Seuss

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"I think of women's kinships as pottery kilns, where two together shape the rough clay of emotion into humankind's most valuable and prized vessels: human community." --Pythia Peay

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“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that child is someone today.” - Stacia Tauscher

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There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. They teach the truth by living it. ~ James A. Garfield

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“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” ~Angela Schwindt

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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. - Alice Walker

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♥ "Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?" ~ Rose F. Kennedy "Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundan...tly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us" (Ephesians 3:20)

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