Posts Tagged ‘Robin Elise Weiss’

August 1st, 2010

So Far… So Gooooood

I have had a ton of awesome things happen in the past two days when I have been really neglecting my blog, e-mail, family, and thing around the house that need to get done. I knew this weekend would bring long days. Why?

I completed day two of my Passion for Birth workshop today!  I am so over the moon about becoming a childbirth educator again. I really think I needed a kick back into the birth stuff. Lately I have really been slacking for a number of reasons. One of my major ones is BlogHer, blogging, social media, and networking has really taken my main attention in preparation for BlogHer next week. Another big reason is because right now, we aren’t planning anymore children in the upcoming years. So occasionally it becomes difficult to talk about birth 24/7 when its something not going on in your own life, while the desire stays there.

My anxiety went up, and come Friday morning meeting all the women I would be learning with, seeing the middle ground between so many of us, including a SUPER awesome Mom who is local to me, with kids my kids ages, I knew that everything would be ok, the training would be painless, and then came Teri!  Oh Teri!   (For those who do not know the back story, Robin Elise Weiss was scheduled to come out and teach, but had an untimely and tragic death in her family.)  While I am still bummed that I haven’t been able to meet one of my best mentors, Robin… I LOVE TERI!

She is fun, but professional, silly, yet calm, and seriously one of the best educators I have met. Her stories crack me up, and her teaching style makes the workshop energetic and full of laughs. It also helps that our group seems to be a real set of hysterical ladies!

Of course, all won’t mesh, or agree 100% at all times, especially with the vastly different backgrounds. We have two RN’s in our class who are also educators at their hospitals. Heck, one of the women describing her hospital makes me want to up and move two states away because of the amazing feel her facility has, heck, they are just no introducing epidurals, and they have a walk out porch in L&D!  Um, yes please!

It is so interesting to learn and hear about the way things are being done in other parts of the east coast. It is truly amazing how different things can be if you travel a simple 3 hours in another direction.

I love sharing this experiences with these women, and I have learned so much already, and I still have an entire day left!  I think my plans and time line of becoming an educator, sitting for my Lamaze Exam, and the direction towards certification I want to obtain has drastically changed. But in the end, I will still be a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator in the next calendar year.

I can’t wait to sit down, write my course, make up educational games, and get into it.

Stay tuned!

February 26th, 2010

Passion for Birth Training

I want to thank everyone who chimed in on my Journey to Becoming a Certified Childbirth Educator post. Your comments and suggestions were very helpful, and helped me to make my choice.

In the end I made the decision to opt to bring a Passion for Birth Training Workshop to Connecticut in hopes of filling the class and being able to have the $395 fee for myself waived. And the best part of it all is I am going to have Robin Elise Weiss coming all the way to Connecticut to teach the workshop, so it is an even bigger score on top of it!

While I wish I could start the process much sooner, we have set the date for the workshop for late July. July 30th through August 1st to be exact.
It gives people a fair amount of time to sign up, and it gives me the hope of getting my 8 participants for the course in order to have my own fee waived!

If you live in Connecticut, or even in the tri-state area, and are interested in the course, you can e-mail me and I will be sure to pass along the full details of the class itself.

I am anxious for the summer now, as if all the snow we have been getting isn’t enough already.
I am looking forward to the new path this will take my life on, to become a Childbirth Educator, especially through Lamaze is something I have wanted to do, I just didn’t know if it would ever be something within reach.

On a side note, my first article was published in a major Connecticut new’s source yesterday, and on top of it, they asked me to continue writing for the same publication, as well as other offers from local media outlets for freelance work.  I am officially going from a SAHM to a WAHM. I am not sure how I feel about it yet, but I certainly know this will help to ease the money burden around our house, and take a good amount of stress off of my husband.
We are still playing catch up from when he was laid off, although right now we are “caught up” thanks to our tax return.

You can check out my article here : The Born Ultimatum