Peeps often ask me for advice on landing conference sponsors. This is my second year going to BlogHer, and this is also my second year having a full sponsorship. Honestly, I think I just plain lucked into them, but there might be a tiny bit of skill involved in this so I’m happy to relay what I know in case...
In March of 2010, I forked over $600 to become trained and certified as a childbirth educator. That’s a lot of money for my family, and it was a massive time commitment considering that I’m already a full-time undergraduate student, and a mom, and a blogger, etc. I wanted to get my whole program done during my summer break in...
Remember how I predicted that 2010 would be The Year of Gina? Well – it totally. freaking. WAS. So many amazing things happened to me this year, it’s hard to even summarize what this year meant to both me and my family… but I’ll try! For starters, my family filmed a TLC/Discovery Health special about our feminist parenting style, which...
I’ve been trying to get this store up for 6 months, but after several requests lately, I decided that now was the time to make it happen. With some help from CafePress and a few designers, I now have T-shirts, maternity shirts, onesies, bibs, baby blankets, bags, and mugs available for sale just in time for the Holiday season! Some...
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Over the summer, you may remember that I opened my area’s first-ever full service childbirth, breastfeeding, and parenting education studio with a few other instructors. I got the wild idea when I started looking around for places to teach my classes, and discovered that renting a place would cost most of the money I’d be making. I asked around the...
This week I attended my 6th birth as a doula, which was also my very 1st cesarean. I’m not going to talk about the mother’s birth story because that’s not my story to tell, but I do want to talk about how I felt throughout this experience, especially given my own history. When I first started taking births as a...
