Poppy Street-Heywood is a devoted wife and busy mom of 4 homeschooled daughters. She is also a midwife and perpetual student hoping to one day achieve true know-it-all status.

Andi Starr lives in America’s Heartland with her soon-to-be embalmer husband, two (almost three!) crazy kids, and two equally crazy cats. When she’s not on one of her ‘militant hippy’ tirades, she’s either knitting, sewing, reading, gardening, or cooking good food for her fabulous friends. judgmentalhippy.blogspot.com

Lauren Jackson is a cloth-diapering, co-sleeping, breastfeeding, babywearing, freebirthing, lactivist, intactivist, crunchy granola stay-at-home earth mommy. She’s a crazy Pagan married to a straight-laced Catholic since 1998, and her household is ruled by two wildling boys and five idiosyncratic cats. She spends her free time watching HGTV, doing DIY projects, decorating her home, thrift shopping, bellydancing and fire-eating.

Erika Devine is a devoted mother of two boys (both breastfeeding at ages 2 and 5). She can be found at festivals drinking chai tea and at Stonehenge drinking gin and tonic. Her friends joke that she should wear a badge that says “Ask me about breastfeeding…’cos I’m going to tell you about it anyway”

Amy Bell is a birth activist and following the path to doula; while breastfeeding, pampering, and otherwise generally maintaining the family unit; and juggling her commitment to the Ruby Bloomers Women’s Circus. She wants to retire to a secluded bush property to write and illustrate books. Adam is a sparky (electrician), and an environmentalist, and  an Aboriginal (Wiradjuri) man, striving to find his place in the crazy world of consumerism. Adam also volunteers as a Rural Firefighter.

Heather Farley is the mother of a beautiful girl and hopes to be the mother of many more. She is most well-known for arranging the nurse-in at Facebook Headquarters in December 2008. She feels we need to have more books about strong women, so she hopes to write biographies in the future. In the meantime, she knits and plays all day. more…

Naomi Sand is the whacko (because she doesn’t feel that “crunchy” or “alternative” say enough, when so many of those moms have regular supermarket cleaners under their sinks and SUVs that get 10 mpg) mom to two intentionally conceived and very much wanted girls. She likes to find out about doing things in a way that is spiritual and honors the planet and is always open to new wisdom. So of course her older girl nursed for close to six years and still cosleeps whenever she pleases and her younger one cosleeps and nurses past her fourth birthday. Her whole whacko unschooled family eats organic food and always focuses on minimizing their carbon footprint.

Lynn Grabowski is a stay at home mom to three life loving unschooled boys. She lives on a six acre farm in southern Ohio with pastured Icelandic sheep, angora rabbits, free range chickens and a happy kitten. Her current goals are toward an organic, sustainable, and eco-friendly lifestyle. She enjoys spending time with the kids, knitting, crocheting, spinning, and watching bad reality tv with her husband.www.woolandwings.blogspot.com

Mandy Bell is mom to two rambunctious boys who were nursed, cloth diapered, coslept, and so forth for their all-too-short babyhoods and now enjoy bike rides, video games, all sports, and getting dirty. She’s a Kentucky girl living in Ann Arbor, MI, while her husband gets a PhD. She is currently an apprentice midwife, but considering the multitude of ways she can work to make the world a better place.

Jess Urwin is a happily married, homeschooling, homebirthing/ucing mama to five wonderful little people.  She is working part time right now but can’t wait to be a stay at home mama again.  She lives in rural Iowa and dreams of living somewhere more crunchy.

Heather Hawkes is a mother of five wonderful children, married to her main man for 18 years. She is a part time RN and a full time mama. she loves home cooking, homeschooling and home birthing…She likes doing things at home. She is very interested in breastfeeding, childbirth, permaculture, community building, and alternative energy. At press time, Heather is trying for baby number 6!

Jen Holland is an American expat in Sydney, and lives with her Aussie husband and three unschooled children.  She is passionate about good food and is the owner of The Laughing Planet Baking Company, a whole foods bakery.

Amber Magnolia spends most of her time mothering, some of her time reading all kinds of books about all kinds of things, and the rest of her time blogging about herbs, food, culture, community, and evolution at www.nourishedmother.com.

Talitha Sherman is the full time homeschooling mother of Kira, Sadie, Hazel, and Theophrastus, and a part time childbirth educator, belly dancer, La Leche League Leader, artist, and Hippo Goddess.

Janet Fraser is the National Convenor of the Australian homebirth network, Joyous Birth. http://www.joyousbirth.info/ She divides her time between two children, a laptop and life. She is a voice of reason in a woman-hating, birth-hating world, and after the resounding success of Homebirth Awareness Year in 2008 is promoting Birth Trauma Awareness Year in 2009.

Jamie Marr Castillo is a Southern California mama of three children ages 4, 2, and brand new. She has chosen to birth all of her children at home simply because she is healthy and finds homebirth to be a lot easier in terms of freedom and comfort measures and just being able to tune in to the body. She wants every woman to know that they have the power inside of them to birth.

Christy Lindsey is happily married to her soulmate, Matt.  She is mom and stepmom to four sons and must really like testosterone.  She loves Jesus and enjoys hanging out with her crew, reading, homeschooling, gardening, dancing, massaging, the great outdoors, and listening to Matt play guitar.

Rebekah W, her husband Christopher, and their son Francis live in western Arkansas and operate a graphic/web design/printing company. They enjoy many aspects of natural living and spend much of their spare time reading and traveling.

Jennifer S. Bax is the harried mother of three free-range, unschooled children, a birth advocate and vbactivist, a trained anthropologist, and an aspiring member of the “knit-your-own-yogurt” crowd. After surviving two cesareans (one arguably necessary, the other most assuredly not), she became an RN in self-defense, and now works on a busy mother/baby unit, supporting new families and hoping that the occasional well-placed suggestion to “please enjoy your baby” hits home for some. She has an extensive online social network (mostly for birth issues), a demanding job, a lot of misplaced guilt and anger, and a profound sleep deficit.

Seraf is a twenty-something single mom of two Ohians.  When not nursing in public, she is generally found in the company of octogenarians.

Martha Ellen Cahalanis a mother of many (seven, at last count). Her children are homeschooled. They keep her very busy.
Planned Unassisted Birth, Unplanned Twins by Albert
My versions of the stories Unassisted Twin Birth written by ME
Kyle’s Birth

Melissa Bellemare is a Full-Time unschooling mama living in the province of Québec. Her passions are cooking, photography, blogging under the pseudonym of “paxye” and being a Natural parenting/living advocate. She has had three very different births including one UC and is planning a second UC in January of 2010. Most of all, she loves to laugh and learn through life with her three energetic boys and amazing husband.

Stephanie Whalen lives with her husband and four children (three girls and one surprise baby boy!) in Las Vegas, NV. The youngest two were born at home, unassisted. She enjoys writing stories, taking photos, and watching her children grow and learn every day. and another one.

Kelly Silliman and her husband Tom own Sweet Dog Farm, a sustainable agriculture (ad)venture in central Virginia, where they live with their three amazing homeschooled daughters and their newborn son, all born at home. They also own The Dance Barn, a studio that offers classes in ballet, tap, jazz, modern and ballroom dance to children of all ages and adults.  Kelly secretly loves Jelly Bellies and can tie shoelaces in a bow with her toes.

Tasha Rose-Mirickis a twenty-eight year old stay at home and work at home mother to two unschooled daughters, and is pregnant with baby number three, due sometime after Thanksgiving but before Yuletide 2008. Together with her husband, she lives a simple Pagan life in the woods of Northern Minnesota, tending chickens, rabbits, dairy and meat goats and organic gardens. She works as a certified doula, is a studying midwife, a bellydancer and an accomplished seamstress.

Valerie Wassergeburt is a firm believer in the ability and right of a woman to birth unassisted.  She believes that a woman’s body can birth most efficiently when the woman is in a setting where she feels comfortable and when she has no fear of labor, being fully confident in her abilities. She is wife to her loving and supportive husband Jon and mother to her son Nathan.  She is caretaker to many chickens, horses, cows, goats, dogs and other creatures of the Earth. In her spare time she reads and writes about subjects empowering towards UP/ UC, and attachment parenting. She enjoys drawing and creating with her hands as well as growing her garden and her long hair!  She believes in holistic and organic approaches to living and passionately shares her views with those around her.

Kelli Lincoln is a radical unschooling mama to four homebirthed beauties, living in the gorgeous Sierra Nevadas. She divides her time between exploring and learning with the family and being creative with her other baby, DancingGoddessDolls.com. She tries to get out of washing dishes as often as possible.

Rebekah Costello is a happily married mother of two little girls living in central Maryland. She is an aspiring midwife and a doula and is patiently
expecting her third child any time now!