To begin, thank you for your guidance, support and care during our pregnancy. The three of you are all amazingly intuitive in your abilities to grasp at a basic level where an expectant parent is coming from with his or her questions and concerns. You all couple this intuitiveness with a professionalism and a thorough-going knowledge of all aspects of pregnancy, birth and post-partem. You view pregnancy and birth as an organic process, and consequently, enable expectant parents to do the same by providing them with a gentle direction that has behind it years of training, first-hand experience, and research that brings in line alternative approaches to medical attention and treatment. Personally, I feel that the three of you guided me and Nicole to a birth experience that was profound, personal and constructive in the sense that it at least allowed me to begin on the long path toward becoming a father to my new-born child. I am truly grateful for the attention and care you showed us, for your patience, and for your ability to maintain a nurturing environment during a home birth with all of the crises, fears and small and large joys that are constantly, literally bursting onto the scene. I thought my job as continuation high school teacher was challenging and rewarding; I had no idea. You three are real-life heroines. You begin the process of providing personal meaning to parents around the birth experience, and set them on as good a path as can be hoped for towards fulfilling their hopes for and responsibilities to their children, and at the same time, reminding them, through your patience and listening and attention, to honor the hopes and dreams of their children. -Pete

Thankyou from the center of our hearts. Birthing has been THE most amazing experience of my life. And now, being a parent. Gavilan is the brightest light in our lives and I remember each day when I look at her the every day miracle of birth and all that is involved in bringing one person into this world…truly mind blowing. Again, thankyou. Lots of love, Nicole, Pete, and Gavilan