About Me
pamela on Mar 14 2008
Pamela Hines-Powell, CPM, LM
I am a midwife in Oregon. I am passionate about unhindered, autonomous birth. I feel strongly that each family I work with deserves the chance to customize their prenatal care and their birth experience as they wish.
I have a fairly busy practice, which blesses me with incredible families that become friends. I feel fortunate that I make a living doing what I feel so passionately about.
My clients and community teach me a great deal about who I am…sometimes in not-so-comfortable ways. I’m always ready for the lessons, ready for the challenge. I am moving past my current ideas and beliefs about birth
- and this blog is a reflection of that journey.
On a more superficial note, here are some of my favorite things:
Books -
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunne
- Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
- Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
- Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- The Scientification of Love by Michel Odent
- Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering by Sarah Buckley
Music -
- Amy Winehouse
- Apples in Stereo
- Beck
- Blonde Redhead
- The Blow
- Bowerbirds
- Boy Least Likely To
- Bunnygrunt
- B-52s
- Bryan Ferry
- The Butchies
- Corinne Bailey Rae
- Carpenters
- Cat Power
- CSS
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Decemberists
- DEVO
- Ditty Bops
- Dolly Parton
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elliott Smith
- Elvis Costello
- Feist
- Imogen Heap
- Jenny Lewis
- Joe Jackson
- Josephine Baker
- Kate Bush
- Ladytron
- Le Tigre
- Loretta Lynn
- Mirah
- Natalie Merchant
- Neko Case
- Nouvelle Vague
- Peaches
- Petra Haden
- Postal Service
- Rilo Kiley
- The Rosebuds
- Rufus Wainwright
- The Smiths
- Social Distortion
- Softies
- Stereolab
- Sufjan Stevens
- Tegan and Sarah
- Tender Forever
Favorite Websites:
- Etsy
- Perez Hilton
- Stuff White People Like
- Mothering dot Commune
- Juxtapoz
- Celebrity Baby Blog
- Cute Overload
- Sephora
Other things that I love:
celebrity gossip :: nutella and peanut butter sandwiches :: magazines :: down comforters :: music :: haircolor :: fudgesicles :: MAC makeup :: rosebud lip balm :: lush bath products :: chocolate hazelnut milkshakes :: wool socks :: candles :: fall :: glossy paper with a gel pen :: sharpies :: beautiful paper :: journals :: E6000 glue :: white strand lights :: oversized couches :: coconut bliss ice cream :: collage :: gorgeous fabrics :: a clean house :: quiet nights in watching movies :: dancing at the fez on friday nights :: my psychiatrist :: red wine :: new glasses :: knitting :: taking naps :: the smell of old textbooks :: nilla wafers :: chocolate :: BUST magazine :: museums :: renaissance art :: baby cheeks :: breastfeeding :: hot tea with milk and sugar :: sleeping in late :: teeth cleanings :: munich :: dogs :: gelato :: my king size futon :: clean sheets :: good reads :: traveling to Europe :: being introduced to new music :: organized spaces :: target :: zappos.com :: going on holiday :: being at the airport :: cleaning :: knitting :: red toenails :: coffee brewing :: cinnamon rolls :: jacob’s rolls :: sephora :: comfy couches :: getting my eyebrows waxed :: changing my hairstyle/color :: solid friends :: german accents :: a day of movies :: aveda purefume gaia scent :: massages :: manicures :: new haircuts :: haircolor :: freshly mowed lawns :: the holidays :: hot chocolate :: hot apple cider :: making lists :: fabulous hand lotion :: IKEA :: rearranging furniture :: margaritas :: burgerville cheeseburgers ::
Love the Shelfari thing! Love it!
I wish I lived near you so that you could by my midwife. Seriously.
Don’t you want to come to Orlando to watch me catch my baby??!
It’s really warm and sunny here!
Wow. This is such a trip! I saw a post from you on MDC, and followed your link here, and holy cow, I KNOW YOU!
A long, long time ago, (9 years ago this month, actually) I found hipMama, and there was a certain person there by the name of PamelaBirthJunkie that got me thinking about birth in a way I didn’t even know was out there. Unfortunately, being scared and already 7 months pregnant I didn’t heed a certain person about at the least having a doula present at my first birth (in the hospital, ugh), but it was a short, intense, easy labor in which they were only able to minimal intervention (of course they managed some against my will, but they always do), but I was able to birth my first baby naturally.
Then, when I got pregnant with #2 I knew there was NO WAY I was going to a hospital. And while I was pregnant I hunted you down at the first HM gathering in Portland in 01 to tell you THANK YOU for being there for women like you, for being there for me. And I had a wonderful, peaceful, midwife attended homebirth in Dec. 01.
Now, I am pregnant with my 3rd child, edd end of July, my dh’s first bio baby, and I thought I could deal with an ob/hospital (insurance stupid stuff), I realized that actually, NO, I would NEVER be ok with willingly submitting myself to that unless my life or my baby’s depended on it. So I am planning my first (and only! after this I am DONE with babies!
) unassisted birth at home. I feel so empowered and overjoyed by this decision.
But anyway, you were the first person I ever met who advocated for a woman’s right to a healthy natural birth, and you were a great influence in my life.
Thank you!
Hi, I just found your blog and I wish I’d had a midwife for my three pregnancies. Unfortunately, that wasn’t an option here in Montreal at the time.
I was wondering if you would be interested in writing a guest post for my blog at http://www.wombwithin.com. I have a doula who will be contributing regularly and I’d love to have a midwife’s point of view too.
Marijke
I love your blog & have to say you look so much like my best friend, who used to be a homebirth midwife.
Anyway, I’m inspired, so I’ve just started my own blog, http://doulamomma.blogspot.com/
best,
Kim