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~ resources for birth and life ~
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ABOUT US
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We are unique...
Baby Moon is different from retail stores, spas, and fitness centers because we are a community--a network of moms supporting moms, families supporting families. We are here to support you on your unique parenting journey. Come and join us! |
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Baby moon (ba'be moon): The period of time in a woman's life when mothering begins--after the birth of a baby when the new pair rest, relax, bond, and prepare for life together. Ancient customs from cultures around the world dictate that new mothers are to be cared for and nurtured during this important time of adjustment, in order to build a strong foundation of support for the vital work of mothering.
The Baby Moon Birth Resource Center was born in February, 2004 out of the belief that pregnancy and birth is a normal, healthy, and life-changing process, and that women need and deserve to be celebrated and supported through this process in a way that respects our intelligence, builds our confidence, and empowers our spirit. We believe that women who are nurtured through their baby moon will have an increased capacity to nurture their babies, their families, their communities, and themselves. It is our hope that Baby Moon will not only help women to find the support they need for mothering, but will also support those women in sharing their knowledge and experience with others. Our specific goals are to: |
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| Please contact us with your questions, issues, needs, and ideas, or for more information about how you can contribute your unique knowledge and experience to the Baby Moon community. | |||||
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| The Baby Moon Staff | ||||||||||||||||
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Anne Rust. I am a prenatal and postpartum yoga instructor and certified birth doula (DONA), and owner of baby moon. After graduate school in English and a few years living in the Southwestern U.S., I returned to Kentucky, chucked my corporate job, and began working with pregnant women in 2001. I studied prenatal yoga with Robin Sale, founder of Whole Birth Resources in Santa Cruz, California, and I am an ongoing student of TriYoga, a form of flowing yoga developed by Kali Ray. I have worked with thousands of Lexington moms since I began teaching prenatal yoga in January, 2002, and have attended over 50 births in hospital and home as a doula. I love supporting women and families through this intense, empowering time. I think of my work as an opportunity to facilitate community and friendship among women and mothers--I love to hook people up! I hope baby moon will serve as a vital resource for women moving through fertility, pregnancy, birth, adoption, and motherhood. Please contact me with your feedback! I am also mom to Elena, born in June, 2006, and Selah, born in February, 2008, both adopted locally at birth through open adoption. | |||||||||||||||
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Amy Weinfurtner is a childbirth educator, birth doula, and mother of three. She has been teaching childbirth education for nearly ten years, and has attended around 100 births as a doula (DONA) and birth assistant. Amy believes in family-centered maternity care and freedom of choice based on knowledge of alternatives in childbirth. Though she is certified to teach prepared childbirth classes, her first love is teaching natural childbirth. Her classes are based on Birthing From Within-style principles, and are appropriate for couples planning their births in a variety of settings. Amy welcomed her third baby at home in October, 2005. | |||||||||||||||
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Cerise Bouchard was so inspired by her own pregnancy and birth experience that she quit her job as an early childhood educator to open a shop dedicated to natural parenting. Mother Nurture opened in July, 2006 next door to Baby Moon, to rave reviews! Cerise brings much-needed breastfeeding supplies, nursing bras, slings & wraps, cloth diapering supplies, and organic baby clothes and essentials to Lexington moms. Cerise gave birth to her son Garrett in November, 2005, and her son Remy in October, 2008, both born at home in the water with the support of her husband, midwife, and doula. | |||||||||||||||
| Christina Scribner is a Registered Nurse, Student Midwife, and Birth Doula. Christina has supported families through birth in hospital and in home, as a nurse, doula, and birth assistant. She is currently working towards her Master's Degree in Midwifery. Christina brings her love of birth to Baby Moon, teaching our Natural Childbirth Weekend Intensive. Christina has a daughter, Ella, and is expecting baby #2 this year! | ||||||||||||||||
| Colby Cohen-Archer, Ph.D. enjoys helping women find their internal strength and sense of self-worth, and assisting them in using this power to cope more effectively with life stresses or to make changes in their lives. "Major life transitions like giving birth (or discovering infertility problems when you always pictured yourself as a mom)," she says, "challenge us to incorporate new experiences into our old sense of who we are. Support from others who are going through similar transitions can greatly assist women in rising to this challenge." Colby is an experienced facilitator and mom to daughters Jesselyn and Cerise, both born in the hospital with the support of her doulas. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Elizabeth Stapleton is a Registered Nurse currently working at a local hospital in woman's services. She and her family moved here from Texas almost two years ago; where her dream job was teaching breastfeeding and childbirth classes at night and teaching breastfeeding to new moms and babies in the hospital during the day. She has two boys, ages 6 and 3½, and she breastfed both of them--one for 22 months and the other for 14 months. Elizabeth is now homeschooling her boys and having a great time! | ||||||||||||||||
| Kara Best-McBride began practicing Vinyasa yoga during graduate school. After leaving New York she gave birth to her son, Dashiel, and her practice shifted to include him. Teaching yoga to kids was an "organic progression" of the energy they created together. She has spent the last year teaching before and after school yoga programs in the Lexington area. She also spreads the benefits of yoga to adults through a YMCA of Central Kentucky Community Outreach program. |
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Kendra Adkisson is a Labor & Delivery Nurse, Certified HypnoBirthing Instructor, Licensed Massage Therapist, and Certified Birth Doula (CAPPA), and is working on her Master's Degree in Midwifery through the Frontier School. It all started when she fell in love with pregnancy massage during her 600-hour massage therapy training. She went on to specialize in Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Infant Massage through her former practice Mother Earth Massage. Kendra is nationally certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, and is certified in prenatal and perinatal massage through Nurturing the Mother, with infant massage certification through Baby's First Massage. Kendra has attended over 70 births as a Doula in hospital, birth center, and home. That number has skyrocketed now that she is working as a Labor and Delivery Nurse at a Lexington hospital. She and her husband John welcomed their daughter Violet through waterbirth at home in May, 2005, and they brought two boys home from Haiti just two weeks before the earthquake, on Christmas Day 2009. | |||||||||||||||
| Lauren Metelski is a certified BabyBodyBirth instructor and Birth Doula. Since the birth of her baby girls, her life has taken off on a very unpredictable and exciting road. The powerfully uplifting experience of her first birth inspired her to be a doula in order to encourage other women to carry out their ideal birthing experience in their own lives. Her wish is to see moms grow in confidence and joy because they made a decision to actively participate in their childbirth. She wants to see moms satisfied that they were encouraged and well supported through this powerful and transitional time. | ||||||||||||||||
| Tatsiana McGee is our unparalleled Licensed Massage Therapist specializing in pregnancy, postpartum, and infant massage. Born and raised in Belarus, Tatsiana received her Masters Degree in Education from Polotsk State University. She moved to the United States in 2000 and discovered her true passion and calling in massage. After graduating from the Institute of Therapeutic Massage and Movement in Nashville, she practiced massage in the San Francisco bay area for over 4 years, where she had the opportunity to study Pregnancy Massage, Bodywork for the Childbearing Year, and Deep Tissue Massage with some of the best teachers in the field. Tatsiana naturally birthed her daughter Kyra in November, 2005, in a Birth Center with her husband, midwife, and two doulas by her side! During her pregnancy, Tatsiana fell in love with prenatal yoga and the birth process. She is now completing her training as a birth doula and plans to obtain her prenatal yoga certification in the future. More about Tatsiana... | ||||||||||||||||
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