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Potluck in the Park will be in September
For those of you who’s calendars fill up quickly, set aside September 11, 2010 at 3:pm for our Andaluz Potluck in the park. We always have a blast with dancing, face painting for the kids, all you can eat Hawaiian Ice, Fernando’s cedar plank salmon and BBQ chicken, and lot’s of friends! We want to [...]
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46 births & a new birth center in Haiti
46 births in April and May and traveling to Haiti to find a new birth center! No wonder I didn’t have time to post in April! We found a building in Haiti that we have rented to open a non-profit birthing center for free prenatal, births, and education for the women and babies in Haiti. [...]
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Carrie
Carrie Duncan was called to midwifery in 1996 after the homebirth of her daughter, Sierra, in Canby, Oregon. She attended homebirths with her midwife for 2 years before apprenticing at Andaluz in and graduating from Birthing Way College of Midwifery in 2003. She practiced in Portland as a home birth midwife and has lived and [...]
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Lucina
Lucina Armstrong believes that birth is a natural and profound experience for women, babies, and their families and understands the power and confidence that women can gain through giving birth. Lucina maintains a balance between the ancient, woman-centered art of midwifery and the most recent evidence-based best practices. After graduating from college in 2001, she [...]
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Back from Haiti & successful potluck
I’m back from Haiti and updated my blog with photo’s and stories. Going there was one of the most amazing things I have done in my life.
www.andaluzhaiti.wordpress.com
I hear things were busy at Andaluz in Oregon while I was gone. Lots of babies born. We also had a potluck at the Children’s Museum with the biggest [...]
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Haiti Blog
For those of you interested in following my trip to Haiti, I started a new blog that I hope to update every couple days. I return in March!
http://andaluzhaiti.wordpress.com/
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Haiti in 12 days…
I leave for Haiti February 19th. I am gathering supplies and asking for donations to buy tarps, tents, vitamins, formula, etc. The birth center will donate all the medical supplies needed. Email me for details if you can donate. I will be staying in Hinche and traveling from there doing mobile prenatal clinics (this means [...]
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25 babies, 2 breech, 0 cesareans
From January 1 – 31 we had 25 babies born at the birth centers. Both breeches were planned and had APGAR scores of 10/10 (Ok, those were born at home because of birth center laws, but I had to include them in here). Everyone had a vaginal birth. Way to go momma’s and babies and midwives!
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Twins in less than two hours
I was driving to a midwife meeting today when I got the call “Contractions just started and are 8 minutes apart.” I let my client know I’ll keep my phone right next to me and be ready to leave my meeting at a moments notice. Fifteen minutes later her husband calls, “Contractions are every 2 [...]
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Jaden’s Birth