Christine Angel
Certified doula (DONA)

I heard about Birth in the DONA newsletter. Not only do women rock, we are GODDESSES!! Just TRUST your body! Please bring the play to New England, especially Maine. Thank you!

Portland, ME

Roni M. Chastain, RN, LCCE, FACCE
August 15, 2006

I am a registered nurse, photographer, certified lamaze instructor and breastfeeding specialist. I have been passionate about normal birth and breastfeeding for over 35 years. I believe we need to empower mothers to birth normally, without interventions, unless medically necessary. Thanks for getting out there to encourage women.

Long Island, New York

Betsy
August 13, 2006

I was pleased to be contacted about being a part of this wonferful play/experience. I hope when it comes to Hartford in September, it will be well advertised and made available to everyone!!

I am an LDRP nurse and lactation consultant. Women owe it to themselves to advocate for their bodies as well as their babies.

Gretchen Hahn
July 4, 2006

My Aunt, Susan Steffes, from Austin, TX sent me an email regarding BOLD. I am an active duty Labor Delivery Recovery Postpartum (LDRP) RN for the US ARMY Bayne Jones Army Community Hospital.

Leesville. Louisiana

Sarah Hilbert-West
April 9, 2006

Hello,
I just found your site - Thank you! Thank you! It always astounds me how little birth is part of popular culture, cinema, music and art. It is (was) the defining moment of all of lives, was it not? Our safe or not so safe journey into the world. It is the time when fathers are born and mothers bloom. When women, birthing many ways, discover how strong they truly are. I would love to present this play and hope I can find a way to be part of labor day 2006.

Quesnel, BC, Canada

Susan
March 6, 2006

Hello,
My name is Susan Cortez and I live in Northern California in the East Bay Area. I attended the showing of Birth in San Jose just yesterday and enjoyed it very much! The play struck a cord in me about a reality that is true for many women, and that is that we have a hard time honoring our own inner truth. It was a great portrayal of the gammit of thoughts and emotion many women experience in pregnancy and birth today.

Charity Scouten

I went to see the play in Richmond, VA a few weeks ago. It was fantastic and refreshing!!! I had two beautiful, wonderful, natural birth experiences, but I know everyone's experiences are their own. I loved hearing all the different points of view. Seeing the play has made me realize, that I really need to pursue becoming a Bradley birth instructor. Thank you so much.

Gloucester, VA

Rosanne Gephart
December 1, 2005

I am looking forward to attending the play in Feb. This is just what our community needs to celebrate birth. Thank you for bringing such a wonderful event to our communities and reminding all of us that women do know how to give birth!

Santa Rosa, CA

Bobbie Avery
November 26, 2005

I saw the play Birth this past July in Washington, DC. My 17 year old grandaughter also accompanied me. It was awesome. These weren't actress these were women voicing how so many of us have felt! My grandaughter was very impressed and wore her "My Body Rocks" shirt proudly. Thank you. If and when you come to Jacksonville, Florida I'll be there!

Folkston, GA

Bird Beisser Bahnson
October 13, 2005

As a CNM, former Peace Corps Volunteer, and most importantly (from the standpoint of the play) a ‘survivor’ of four normal spontaneous vagina deliveries without epidural, ultrasounds, episiotomies, tears or gloved hands in my uterus – I am intrigued and can’t wait to see the play! Natural does not begin to describe the birth experience in the U.S.A. – more people need to be educated about the potential for birth and forget their technological expectations. I say: Trust in the process.
Congratulations to Karen! Thank you for all your hard work and efforts for women, infants and significant others!
Peace

Stoughton, Wisconsin

Karen (Hannah) Railing
August 3, 2005
Western Pacific Regional US Director
DONA International

I was privileged to attend the performance of Birth at the DONA Conference in Washington DC, on July 23, 2005. I commend you on your ability to show all the variables of birth-- the emotional, physical and mental challenges without pulling any punches.

I could have sat there all night, listening to the stories, and watching your DC cast become those various women. They were more than characters reading a script. They were living, breathing women brought to life by a wonderful cast of actors (truly!) and the words you lovingly penned for them to speak gives testimony to pain, power and joy that is (or can be!) childbirth, and to the strength of women giving birth—and supporting each other in birth.

You are giving testimony to the fact that birth is a peak-life experience, that the importance that the choices we make surrounding our birth is more than a single day in just the woman’s life (or in the life of her family) and that we must take-charge and own the responsibility of those choices.

Thank you for Birth, which is was apparently truly a "labor of love."

Blessing and continued best wishes and success,
Please check out my comments about the play at: http://millinersdream.blogspot.com/2005/08/birth-play-not-movie.html

Terresa
July 12, 2005

I heard about "Birth the Play" from the May-June 05 issue of Mothering Magazine. I was hoping it was coming to my hometown (Las Vegas, NV), and after visiting the web site, I'm thrilled to see it is scheduled to be here
this fall!

I am a mother of 3 homebirthed children (3 yo girl and 1.5 yo b/g twins). I am a member of a LVMoms, a local mom's group who embrace natural birth and attachment style parenting. We are all looking forward to this play and are happy that it will be here soon!

Las Vegas, Nevada

Melissa Atherholt
July 12, 2005

Hi Karen,

I met you at the Frederick showing of Birth. Congratulations! The play is sure to be a success wherever you take it! It was so moving and truthful it's high-time the information you give is getting out there in such a beautiful manner!

Maryland

Susan Mocsny Baker
July 7, 2005

Karen, I met you at the La Leche League International conference in D.C. What a concept! I told you that at the Chicago LLLI Conference, a group of women and I went to see the Vagina Monologues. I can't wait to see "Birth." I live near Boston, am a labor and delivery nurse and have birthed three healthy children, now young adults. My body DOES rock!

Westborough, MA

Wendy Hughes
June 25, 2005

I heard about your play through a birth-related e-mail list that I subscribe to. The Pacific Northwest has a large and active birth community, and we would love to see your play up here! It sounds wonderful, and we are hoping that you might consider heading up the West coast while you're out here next spring. Keep up the good work!

Portland, OR

Jennifer Jagger

I heard about Birth from a member of our University of Pennsylvania student organization WHAM (Women's Health and Midwifery) at Penn.

Great work Karen! The play looks like it would be fantastic.

Jock Doubleday
Director, Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc.

Kudos. It's about time.