Birth Circle Series: Winter-Spring 2012
At a birth circle you'll find a supportive, confidential, pluralistic, environment where you can meet people, share experience, and ask questions about the journey to motherhood.
You can hear a range of experiences as you prepare to birth your baby, and ask questions about birth, babies and parenting.
You'll have a chance to tell your birth story and be heard, and to process your story in new ways.
You'll meet other pregnant women, new moms, birth professionals and birth enthusiasts.
Each circle includes refreshments and a prize raffle and is hosted by a co-sponsoring institution in different locations around the Boston area, and is focussed around a theme to guide the discusion.
Suggested Donation $10
Back to main Birth Circle page
You can hear a range of experiences as you prepare to birth your baby, and ask questions about birth, babies and parenting.
You'll have a chance to tell your birth story and be heard, and to process your story in new ways.
You'll meet other pregnant women, new moms, birth professionals and birth enthusiasts.
Each circle includes refreshments and a prize raffle and is hosted by a co-sponsoring institution in different locations around the Boston area, and is focussed around a theme to guide the discusion.
Suggested Donation $10
Back to main Birth Circle page
Winter Spring 2012 Schedule
Sunday December 18 - 3:30-5:00 pm |
Relationships / Family - What does the birth process change about relationships with your partner, parents, friends? How does it affect the way we see ourselves, the families we're coming from, and those we're building?
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Sunday January 22 - 3:30-5:00 pmLeventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center
333 Nahanton Street Newton, MA 02459
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Dreams and Hopes - What did you or do you hope for in your pregnancy and birth experience? What dreams do you have for your child, and for yourself as a mother?
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Sunday February 12 - 3:30-5:00 pmTemple Emunah
9 Piper Road Lexington, MA 02421
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Customs and Rituals - What do we bring to the birth process to help us make sense of and feel comfortable through this time of transition? From prenatal visits to affirmation statements, clothing choices to baby blessings, saying psalms to sips of water, lucky charms to welcoming ceremonies.
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Sunday March 18 - 3:30-5:00 pm |
Control - Who (if anyone) is in control throughout the birth process? How much control can we maintain? Is letting go a necessary part of the process? How is the birth experience affected by our attitudes toward authority and autonomy?
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Sunday April 29 - 1:00-2:30 pm
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Expectations - What did or do you think it would be like, to be pregnant, to give birth, to be a parent? How did you expect to feel, to act, to respond? How did your expectations compare with your experience? What went as planned? What surprised you?
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Sunday May 20 - 3:30-5:00 pm
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Fear and Faith - How does fear -- of parenthood, of pain, of change, of loss -- play into our experience of pregnancy and birth? What scares us? How do we overcome it? What or who do we trust in the face of that fear? And how does that faith affect our choices?
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