So it dawned on me today that spring is almost here. In Seattle we are under the (mistaken, I believe) impression that spring has already sprung...I mean, just look at the evidence that the Yarn Harlot offers from her Madrona trip! Anyway, so I was thinking about life after "Rob's Never-ending Sweater" and realized: Oh! It'll have to be something less wintry (if not, necessarily, less woolly). Methinks it's time to visit the stash. At least I can do a swatch or two while I frog, knit, frog, knit, frog, knit the sleeves of the sweater. Ya know, for sanity's sake. :-)
I still have to frog Mr. Greenjeans, and have decided that the lovely, washable yarn will become a "Big Bad Baby Blanket" for our (someday) "Little, Sweet, Baby Pretlow". It'll be my travel project for my upcoming trip to (drum-roll, please) the Trust Birth Conference. I am so excited I cannot even tell you! Writers of midwife/natural birth/doula - type blogs are all atwitter about this event, and have been for a few weeks (the links are just three of the baby blogs I follow). When I first read (know before you go: there's a childbirth photo in that link...which means nekkid bits) about the conference my interest was piqued, but I wasn't sure I could work it out (what with having to arrange subs for my classes, etc.). Last week I looked at the classes again and realized that I must go. Period. So, I arranged.
Here's what I've signed up for (you can read a full listing, or the details of these classes, by clicking here). You can even order downloads of the lectures after the conference concludes. Isn't that cool?
- The womanly Art of Birthing: Secrets Doctors Don't Know
- Postpartum Fitness: More Than Getting Back into your Jeans
- Prenatal Testing and Ultrasound: The Whole Story for Mother and Baby
- Baby's Experience of Birth
- Don't Push Me; Physiologic Pushing
- Hands Off the Perineum
- Why Women Stay Home Alone
- Believe Your Way to a Better Birth
- Embracing Life After Loss: How We Can Help Them
Some of these classes are particularly for professional development (i.e. "Postpartum Fitness") but all of them are for personal growth. As I was listing my choices on the registration form, I realized that the last class is probably the reason that I feel so strongly that I absolutely must go to this conference. It's aim is to teach women how to help other women "through the grief of an early loss and how to welcome new life with joy and without the fears that are typically imposed after a pregnancy loss, still birth, or early childhood death." I mean, how could I miss such a healing opportunity? I feel certain that this will help me help myself with the loss of my first pregnancy, as well, particularly as we venture into the land of "hoping to conceive" once more.
It seems only appropriate to take along a baby blanket project for a conference such as this, does it not?
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