I'm so excited to be teaching again! I'll be teaching a class for birth support people and homeopathy at the end of October and just got back from teaching beginning homeopathy students in Los Angeles.

I'm feeling fired up right now about a few issues, one of them is the fact (according to Amnesty International) that as we've medicalized birth in this country, our maternal and infant death rates have gone up. There are now 49 countries in the world that have lower maternal death rates than the U.S. Please click here if you want to know more about this on the Amnesty USA website. I want to give parents and birth providers the support of homeopathy to help them give birth naturally, with gentle, effective help, if they need it.

To the right is a picture of my now 13-year-old baby Kaya, when she was 3 months old. She was born at home, the third of my daughters to be born with the help of a midwife, homeopathy, and the certainty that I was doing something completely natural and right.

Homeopathy for Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum

I'm teaching a two-day intensive class on how to use homeopathic remedies to enhance and ensure health for mother and baby during pregnancy, labor and postpartum. This class also includes a short segment on how nutrition relates to these reproductive cycles.

Some of the topics we'll be covering:

• Pregnancy Remedies for nausea and vomiting, emotional issues, breech or lateral presentation, digestive symptoms, yeast infections
• Labor Remedies for post-dates, fear of labor, back labor, prolonged and dysfunctional labor, fatigue
• Postpartum Remedies for bruising and swelling after the birth, perineal tears, insomnia, post-natal depression, to help milk supply and to help with breast infections
• Pregnancy Tissue Salts Protocol to help the mother and baby in utero absorb the nutrients they need to build a new body.
• Traditional foods that have been prized over millennia to give mother and baby the nutrients they need to thrive.

If you or someone you know is interested in being a birth support person, this class is your opportunity to gain some essential tools to expand your knowledge.

Series meets two Saturdays - October 29th and November 5th, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Classes will be held at the Berkeley Institute of Homeopathy classroom at 1654 University Avenue in Berkeley.

Email me to register: edi@berkeleyhomeopathy.com or call: (510) 516-1334.

Registration for the two days is $150 if paid for by October 15th, after October 15th cost is $185. Must pre-register by October 22nd.

Teaching in Los Angeles

What fun it was to teach the very first homeopathy class to this year's first year students at the Los Angeles School of Homeopathy a couple of weekends ago!

I loved having the opportunity to introduce the fundamentals of this wonderful medical art to a new and enthusiastic group of students. The director of the school, my friend and colleague Avghi Constantinides, has a rigorous curriculum laid out which kept us working hard for two days in order to get through all the material!

I must admit I was a bit daunted by the technology of teaching to some of the students over the web, as well as those in the room, but it worked out really well, at one point when the students and I got back late from having lunch and bonding in a nearby community garden, the students over the web were chatting away, bonding over cyberspace!