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Hi All,

We have truly knocked ourselves out, but to no avail, and it will be another day before all the new videos are up in the Village. Importantly, the Nora Coffey interview is up in the theatre, which you will find completely amazing!

Aza, I hope you will read my review of the epidural article in the Village Post - I wrote it just for you! You all will enjoy the Chiasson article too. We have been very blessed to have great minds and souls think highly enough of Whole Woman to give us original articles, for which I am entirely grateful.

What you have to look forward to is a surprise from either the kitchen or sewing room, depending on what happens tonight (not telling!), another movement suggestion from the WWC, and our first Fireside Chat with a very special guest.

Hope you enjoy!

Christine

It appears our Wordpress site at the Village Post may have been hacked with. sigh. We are trying to post a wonderful article by Ann Marie Chiasson, MD, but are running into difficulty. Stay tuned.

I was gonna say I can't find it.....
Never having had an Epi I was very interested to read it :-)

Yeah, Dr deLancey. And maybe microtrauma is really caused by an irreverent butterfly at the bottom of Australia flapping its wings! His ideas sound like more gobbldigook, designed to confound the reader. But then, what would I know?
L

Totally mind blowing interview Christine.

Might this most powerful interview with Nora Coffey also be posted on youtube? I know that there are already some videos with Nora, but this is truly a good one!

Great is, is that Coffey has written the book 'The H Word: The diagnostic studies to evaluate ...'

Other good links may be found on Wikipedia: Nora W. Coffey

Thank you very much Christine, Lanny and Nikelle for this video.

Christine, congratulations to the WW team for putting together this wonderful interview. I think your ideas and Nora's ideas came together really well. I thought I knew a fair bit about Nora from www.hersfoundation.org , but this interview showed a much bigger view of this amazing woman and her capacity to identify what she can change and why she needs to do her work. I look forward to making her work and your work household words in my neck of the woods.

She does a very good job at challenging the validity of removing a woman's sexual organs at all. Why does it even happen? A very profound question indeed!

As she says, it needs to be done one woman at a time, just like we do, if women are lucky enough to find us.

I would encourage all women to go to her website and have a look around. Sooner or later a woman in your life will confide that she is thinking about having a hysterectomy. Send her to check it out for herself.

Louise

Check out the Fireside Chat in my "living room" for an interesting conversation on the emotional aspects of prolapse. Also, the new edition of the Village Post is up!

We spent all day making and filming red clover salve, but there was not enough time to edit the footage. Tomorrow! :)

Loved the Coffey interview...need to watch it again with a bit more focus but I loved the part where she says something to the effect of - It is elitist to expect women to take full responsibility for their healthcare when many women are simply struggling to survive and make ends meet, or don't have the basic knowledge to be able to delve into the intricacies of POP, etc. She says that is a massive failure of healthcare providers to not offer us exactly what we need to be informed, to make decisions, to stay autonomous. They have a hell of a lot of explaining to do, that is for sure. (Please forgive me for quite possibly putting words in Coffey's mouth ;)
I'm glad I watched her before looking at the article; it made me realise that the onus is actually on De Lancey to prove his far fetched ideas, not on us to dispute them. Or perhaps he can just find that butterfly Louise mentioned ;) I really wonder exactly how many normal physiological births the people who are spouting off all these ideas have witnessed? Normal, unhindered birth is a dying breed and something tells me most of them have seen very little of it.