Every Tuesday, Juniper and/or Fae will pick a great blog post from our friends and write a paragraph about it. We’ll include a link to their post in our paragraph. We’re going to invite you to do the same – find a post that you’ve found that moves you (and it doesn’t have to be from today, it can be an older post) and share it here. We’ll have a centralized list of of recommended posts here, and a button that can link us together. The group can grow and grow, we don’t have to limit the amount of recommended posts…but it would be a way for us to find incredible things to read, and remarkable people to meet, recommended by our peers, without having to surf for hours. The goal is all about sharing interesting posts, and interesting people. I doesn’t have to be limited to ANY topic, religion or ideology. We can’t wait to read what you find!

Here’s Fae’s pick this week:

I was lucky enough to prepare for childbirth utilizing natural childbirth and the *wonderful* ideology behind Attachment Parenting. While the women around me puffed their Lamaze breathing, scheduling Cesarian Sections and sharing their excitement about how quickly they could get their “Happy-Dural” before the pain set in (and this worked for them, it was what they wanted, so the power to them), I was reading up on home birth, and being totally present as I brought a child into the world. I was told, and took on as my mantra “It ‘aint called ‘labor’ for nothing!” Now, in retrospect, after 52 hours of labor including 8 hours of vomiting in back-labor, a broken coccxy two blown eyes, grossly swollen private parts and a partridge in a pear tree (I had scar tissue on my cervix that no one could find, so I couldn’t dilate: wrong doctor, no question), a “happy-dural” might have been welcomed (the second one was 7 hours, after which my mom looked up and blinked and said “That’s it? I feel kind of cheated”). Jupiter Greenmoone at The Carnelian Chronicles (an incredibly well-written blog) wrote a post about a new book called Pagan Pregnancy is trying desperately to be born: Pagan Pregnancy: Please Read! She includes a description of the book and topics covered, which seems an awful lot like a resource new parents pagan religions would deeply welcome. Unfortunately, it’s been dropped from publication by the publishing house. Jupiter is kind enough to have done her homework, and supplies a plethora of contacts to who could get the wheels moving on getting it picked back up. If this intrigues you as much as it did me after reading the post, send an email or six to help! Enjoy the post…
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So here’s what you do…if you’d like to read the post, click through to The Carnelian Chronicles and read the article. If you’d like to leave comments for her, feel free!

If you have a friend whose post you want to share, here’s how you do it…(look at my post as an example if you have any questions…it’s easier than it looks:)

1. Write a paragraph or two about your friend’s post in your blog, and make sure to include a link to the post you’re writing about so your friends can click through to it.

2. Name your post “Turn Around Tuesday – [and then the name of your friends' blog]“. Look at the name of my post today for an example.

3. Copy and paste the code below at the bottom of your POST (in the HTML tab). This code will put a button on the bottom of your post so the readers can join Turnaround Tuesday if they wish.

4. After posting, come back here and fill out the Widget below the button with the following information:

Link Title: Name of your friends’ post (the post title, not the blog name).

Email Address: YOUR email address (it won’t show on the page, don’t worry).

Link URL: Copy and paste YOUR Turn-Around Tuesday POST, not your main website.

5. Hit the ‘Submit Link’ button.

That’s it!