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Message Pendants by Beth Goss These sterling silver pendants are the perfect gifts for midwives, doulas, childbirth educators, and mothers-to-be. This pendant is hand-stamped and measures 5/8inch in diameter. The pendant hangs from a sterling silver chain. You choose the length of the chain. Each pendant is accented with a tiny wire wrapped red garnet. The pendant can be worn by a birthing mother and used as a focal point during labor. When a laboring woman experiences contractions it's helpful to have something to focus on. A midwife, doctor, or doula wearing one of these pendants can offer extra support and a reminder to open up, breathe, relax, and bring new life into the world. Your pendant will ship directly from the artist in Seattle. #PEN-MES $30 Breathe Peace Relax 16" 18" 20" Gestation Pendant This substantial sterling pendant is a real eye catcher with it's 2mm cultered pearl focal point. Artist Jane Iris derived this from a Ukranian design, the image representing incubation, the pre-emergent growth of an entity, idea or fetus. This pendant comes on an extra long rayon black cord. Pendant measures 1 3/4" high x 1" wide. #PEN-GES $70  Belly Mask Kit Instructions from Embellyshments I met Kim Radtke shortly after we moved to Washington State in 1998. She introduced me to the birthing community in the Seattle area and was a great resource for local information. Kim has been masking Seattle area bellies since 1997 - and she is quite good at it. Attachments used to carry her Belly Mask Kits ( no longer in production) and we still carry her popular Birth Affirmation Cards. Kim is now making her detailed and thorough, step-by-step belly masking instructions for sale. The instructions include a list of everything you will need for your mask plus very detailed instructions. Kim's expertise in belly masking shines through in this booklet; your sucessful bellymasking adventure will be made easier with this easy-to-follow 5 page booklet. You will recieve a free copy of The Compleat Mother Magazine with purchase. #MASK $10.00 I Watched My Brother Being Born, by Anne and Katarina Vondruska This book by mother and daughter team Anne and Katarina makes a great compliment to the DVD by the same title. Katarina and her five year old brother Magnus watch their baby brother being born and tell about it in this charming and fact-filled book. The book takes on the voice of Katarina but also has an introduction for parents. "My goal with this book is to teach our children that giving birth is a natural, safe and fulfilling process. Unless the birthing mother has an illness that needs special medical attention, it need not be treated like a disease. By including our children at birth they can see that it is a normal and healthy physical event..." Illustrative photos from Anne's third childs actual birth at home in a birthing tub make this book a rare find. Buy the book and DVD together or separate, see below. Paperback #BK-BRO $12.50 Sleeping With Your Baby, A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping, by James McKenna, Ph.D James McKenna is the world's authority on cosleeping. This book belongs on every parent's bookshelf. From the back cover: "Sleeping with your baby has been the norm for almost all cultures through most of the ages. Yet in our modern world, the practice is fraught with questions and guilt. In Sleeping With Your Baby , a world-wide recognized cosleeping authority examines why simplistic recommendations against any and all forms of cosleeping are not only scientifically inappropriate, but dangerous and morally wrong". This book explains in plain language the benefits of cosleeping, with sections on minimizing hazards and risks, and well as how to cosleep successfully. PB #BK-Sleepwith $14.95 Countdown to a Miracle: The Making of Me Calendar, by Julie Carr This is such a neat idea. Here is a small desktop calendar - it sits right side up - that takes you day by day through your pregnancy. From the last day of your menstrual cycle, when you're not even pregnant yet, through 40 weeks of pregnancy ( actually it goes through 41 weeks for those babies who like to sleep late ). Each day of the calendar tells what kind of growth and development is happening, or what you might be feeling. This little calendar is filled with a wealth of information. There is also room for notes that you might want to write down. You'll keep this calendar well past your pregnancy as a remembrance. #CAL-MIR $16.95  Expecting a Miracle; A Guided Pregnancy Journal for the Mom-To-Be, by Motherly Way Enterprises This special edition of Expecting A Miracle Guided Pregnancy Journal which you can use in addition to the calendar shown above or all by itself. The journal will take you through your pregnancy month by month, prompting you with questions about each step of the 9 month way. There is plenty of room for your thoughts and notes on what you might want to ask your midwife or doctor. There are places for pictures and a keepsake pocket. This is a really lovely journal; very comprehensive and detailed. The questions prompted throughout can be answered regardless if you are planning a home, birthing center or hospital birth. #JOUR-MIR $24.95  Black Madonna Pregnant Sleep ~ The Mother's Womb Primal Echos Cards, Images by Durga Bernhard, These cards by Durga Bernhard are especially suited to give along with your gift to a newly pregnant loved one. You will find more cards by Durga on our Notecards page. As usual, Durga's cards are vibrant and moving, you may not want to give them a way. Buy two - one to give one to frame. Cards are full color, printed on recycled paper with soy-based inks. Cards measure 5x7". #DUR-CARD $2.25 each Black Madonna The Mother's Womb Pregnant Sleep © 1997-2011 Lori Thompson Photography