Author Archives: fernandogallardo

Written by Rama Pfeiffer: I had the iPod Touch playing in the background this morning for Jaden and I; it was set to shuffle. He loves to look at it and point to it as he eats breakfast, wishing with all of his might that he could touch it. But alas, it sits propped up [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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/

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 [...]

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!

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 [...]

Oh… I’m not so good at keeping up with this blogging thing! So, November has been busy. Actually, October was as well. In the past 60 days we have had 45 Andaluz babies born! (57 due during October and November, but of course some babies are waiting to spill into December). Maybe that’s part of [...]