15 Responses

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   Rhian · July 26, 2015 at 21:58:25 ·

   Hi there,

   I really appreciate your site! My husband and I collected positive images to make a birth altar. I wish we had found your site then… I found it through pinterest. I trained as an Art Psychotherapist in the UK.

   I’n due to give birth in 2 weeks and often light candles in front of the images!

   Thanks and good luck,

   Rhian

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      Visualizing Birth · September 27, 2016 at 11:11:59 ·

      Hello Rhian, I hope that this message finds you doing well and enjoying mothering!

      I am currently doing a project on birth altars. Did you take any pictures of yours? If so, I was hoping that I could look at the altar and discuss it with you. Let me know, and best wishes to you.

      Anna

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   Visualizing Birth · July 27, 2015 at 08:00:29 ·

   Thanks for your message, Rhian, and your work sounds very interesting. Images are so powerful, and the birth altar is a special place! If you peruse the pages here, you’ll also find a few videos that might be helpful to you in the visualization of birth.

   Best wishes to you and your husband during this time, and feel free to contact me via email anytime.

   Anna

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   David Iona · August 27, 2017 at 08:48:01 ·

   I came across your site by accident and wondered if you would care to look at a video I put together titled ‘My Birthing Pool’ on you tube. The poem is read by a British actor namely Lisa Grant who read my poem two days before she herself was due to give birth to her daughter.

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   Visualizing Birth · August 27, 2017 at 09:22:59 ·

   Yes, David, I would be interested in seeing that! I will email you.

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   Stephanie · February 6, 2018 at 18:03:13 ·

   Hi Anna,

   Thank you for your site. Do you happen to know the date of Sara Star’s The Crowning? I am a midwifery student and would like to include this work in a presentation but would like to reference it properly.

   Thank you!
   Stephanie

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      Visualizing Birth · February 6, 2018 at 20:46:40 ·

      Hi Stephanie, thank you for your interest in the site! The copyright on Sara Star’s The Crowning is 2004. The copyright for Star’s Study for the Crowning is also dated to 2004. I will send you a few other relevant articles via email. Best wishes, Anna

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   Tierra · August 9, 2018 at 10:40:50 ·

   Hello Anna,
   I was on the website looking for inspiration for my doula practice how to incorporate Yemoja and birth. Your picture was the first to come up, thank you for sharing. It moved me into a place of peace and joy. I’m new to being a business woman but I know one thing is that violating copyright is not a good thing. May I use your picture of Yemoja within my blog? Thank you in advance.

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      Visualizing Birth · August 9, 2018 at 15:53:19 ·

      Hi Tierra, thank you for your message and that is great that you wrote to get permission on the image. I don’t own the copyrights to most of the images here and so always contact the artist first. The artist of that piece is Amy Haderer and you can contact her through her website at: https://www.mandalajourney.com If you’d prefer, I can send an email to her and copy you there, just let me know. Amy is also a doula and I’m sure she’d be glad to let you use the image on your website. Best wishes, Anna

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   Sabina Fella · August 26, 2019 at 07:58:59 ·

   Dear Anna,
   My name is Sabina and I am a midwife in Toronto. I absolutely love your work. Would you be willing to talk to me about possibly giving you a space on our midwifery group’s website? We have a section that’s about Inspiration, Health, Art, Writing. We do a lot of prenatal education as well and the issue of fear is very prevalent in birthing women today.
   Please send me an email if you are interested. It wouldn’t be any work for you – as we would simply give you a space to post some interesting things about visualizing birth.
   With gratitude,
   Sabina Fella (Riverdale Community Midwives, Toronto)

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      Visualizing Birth · September 3, 2019 at 18:53:32 ·

      Certainly, Sabina! That is important work and I will email you. Thank you for connecting here, Anna

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   joanne leonard · September 23, 2019 at 14:39:52 ·

   hello:
   Thank you for your website “visualizing childbirth.” I’m an artist who has been asked to comment for a podcast about my own birth image in an on-line collection. I came to your site to look at what you have collected. A really terrrific collection. I’m attempting to view a few videos on the subject of childbirth at your site and finding these have been removed. Might you tell me why these videos were (had to be?) removed? Many thanks, joanne leonard

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      Visualizing Birth · September 23, 2019 at 18:58:17 ·

      Hi Joanne, thank you for your message and I would love to see your work! As for the videos, when they don’t work the problem usually relates to the site from which the videos originate. My site links to those sites, and if the original site removed the video or changed the link to the video then it won’t work on my site. I’ll look through and see if I can find the new links/sites. Unfortunately, sometimes the videos have been removed entirely and I can no longer retrieve them. This has already happened with a few of my favorite videos here and I cannot find them anywhere, though I will keep looking! Best wishes, Anna

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   Margaret Ragen · November 6, 2023 at 11:42:02 ·

   Aloha, Anna.
   So inspired by your work. I’m a midwife in Hawai’i. I stumbled upon your blog as there is an exhibition at the NEW MUSEUM on Judy Chicago, and on an internet search, came to your work. Could you help me in finding if we could utilize any of Ms. Chicago’s images on our Hawai’i Affiliate of the American College of Nurse Midwives website?

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      Visualizing Birth · November 6, 2023 at 12:07:41 ·

      Thank you, Margaret, and your work sounds wonderful! I will email you about Judy Chicago’s artwork.