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DESCRIPTION:Birth Happens Speaker Series: Birthing at Home in the Hippie 
 Era\n\nModerator Elizabeth Yznaga with Estelle Fein and Carol 
 Brendsel\n\nPlease join moderator nurse-midwife Elizabeth Yznaga in 
 conversation with home-birth mothers Estelle Fein and Carol Brendsel. Both 
 women gave birth at home during the late 1960s, at a time when there were 
 no legal home birth midwives.\n\nBirth Happens is an exhibition celebrating 
 the history of midwifery in Santa Cruz County at the San Lorenzo Valley 
 Museum Faye G. Belardi Memorial Gallery in Felton.\n\nVisit 
 www.slvmuseum.org for more information.\n\nElizabeth Yznaga CNM-Ret, MSN, 
 DNP developed her OB clinical expertise from a successful midwifery career 
 (Certified Nurse Midwife) including hospital, birth center and teaching 
 responsibilities. She pioneered several midwifery positions and enjoys 
 nursing students at the University of San Francisco in critical event 
 simulations. Her calling to midwifery motivated her to make the hospital 
 better for mothers and babies. As the first midwife establishing the 
 30-year-old midwifery practice at Kaiser Hospital in San Jose California, 
 she delivered thousands of babies and fulfilled her calling.\n\nEstelle 
 Fein was born in New York City, as a child of emigrants she was familiar 
 with the old ways. She landed in Boulder Creek via Brooklyn College, 
 University of Utah, and San Francisco State University. She lived on the 
 edge Haight Asbury in 1965. Deeply affected by the foment of the times, she 
 cut ties with her family, and the culture of the 1950s. She attended the 
 mind-blowing experience of the Human B-In at Golden Gate Park in 1967. In 
 1969, Estelle and her husband moved to Santa Cruz and opened a meta 
 physical book shop off of Pacific Avenue. She gave birth at home in Santa 
 Cruz to her first child and moved to Boulder Creek guided by “SPIRIT” 
 where she met Betsy Herbert. Through their daily talks, they investigated 
 what it was really like to have babies and build community in primitive 
 conditions. During Estella’s second pregnancy, she hung out at the Santa 
 Cruz Birth center with Raven Lang, Kate Bowland, and Betsy. Betsy and 
 Estelle investigated new forms of education, leading to the home school 
 movement and charter school movement in the San Lorenzo Valley.\n\nCarol 
 Brendsel took a circuitous route to come to the San Lorenzo Valley in 1969. 
 She has lived in and around Santa Cruz with brief forays to Wisconsin, 
 Nevada, Florida, New York, and New Mexico. Felton has been home for the 
 last 11 years and like Dorothy said, “there’s no place like 
 home.”\n\nShe trained as a nurse at a three year immersion program, 
 Philadelphia General Hospital, one of the oldest schools in the US. She was 
 sure that she never wanted to worked in obstetrics as practices of the 
 1960s were tortuous and cruel to mothers and babies. It was not until she 
 had her own baby at home with a midwife in Santa Cruz 1973 that she began 
 to go to births attended by midwives. She is grateful for all the mothers 
 and midwives who taught her invaluable skills.\n\nShe transferred these 
 skills to the hospitals when in the early 80’s there seemed to be more 
 midwives than there were people wanting homebirths. She respects always the 
 woman’s right to choose when and where and who will attend her.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/09/10/18844822.php
SUMMARY:Birthing at Home in the Hippie Era
LOCATION:Felton Branch Library Community Room, 6121 Gushee St., Felton, CA 95018
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/09/10/18844822.php
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