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The Magic of Hot Stone Massage: Integrating an Ancient Healing Tradition into your Practice with Eric Stephenson, LMT, Body Therapy Institute, Siler City, NC - March 2005 - 16 CEUs Nurturing the Mother® Workshops with Claire Marie Miller, LMBT, Body Therapy Institute, Siler City, NC - August 2005 - 27 CEUs (training in pregnancy, labor, postpartum, infant, fertility, reflexology and more) DONA Childbirth Class for Doula's with Ann Tumblin - July 2008 - 7 CEUs DONA Doula Training with Ann Tumblin - July 2008 - 16 hours CEUs Certified Pre- & Perinatal Massage Therapy with Carole Osborne Sheets, Miller-Motte College, Cary, NC - October 2008 - 32 CEUs Certified International Loving Touch Parent-Infant Massage Foundation Infant Massage Instructor Training with Diane Moore - March 2009 - 21 CEUs Working with Women in Recovery, UNC Birth Partners, March 2009 with Laura Louison, MSW, MSPH, Perinatal Substance Use Specialist Local Sponsor ALACE/toLabor Labor Assistant Training June 2009 - Through and application process, brought a training to the NC and serve as the local sponsor for toLabor from June 2009 - June 2010 Homeopathy for Birth Professionals with Hart Mathews, Peace Tree Village, Raleigh, NC - June 2009 - 2 CEUs ALACE/toLabor Labor Assistant Training with Thérèse Hak-Kuhn June 2009 - 24 CEUs Acupressure for Birth Professionals with Tamara Cox, LaC, Peace Tree Village, Raleigh, NC - August 2009 - 2 CEUs Event Registrar A Day with Ina May Gaskin - December 5, 2009 Ina May Gaskin Shoulder Dystocia and Breech Birth Workshop - December 5, 2009 - 4 CEUs Essential Oils for Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum with Christinia Hagan, LMBT, Peace Tree Village, Raleigh, NC, January 2010 - 2 CEUs Ina May's Lecture - Midwives: The Key to Reducing Infant Mortality in North Carolina and Safe Motherhood Across Ethnic Lines focused on Infant Mortality, as well as, the somber reality that mother's still die in this country as the result of childbirth in her Safe Motherhood Quilt Project. 30 other countries have better maternal mortality rates than the US. Maternal death rates are greatly under reported. - December 5, 2009 - 2 CEUs Bamboo-fusion with Ivy Jo Staton, North Pointe Body Therapies, Durham, NC - March 2010 - 16 CEU's |
Parents, Expectant Parents, and Babies
About me
In March 2002 I became a mother to Arthur who was born at the Piedmont Women's Health Center in Chapel Hill (now called Women's Birth and Wellness Center). 
is the highest point in Maine and the Northern most point of the Appalachian trail. When my future husband and I climbed Mt. Katahdin in July 1999, we had become engaged only two weeks before at our home in Durham, NC. We hadn't even told anyone about our engagement. I wanted my family to be the first to know and they were on vacation. 
We started our assent from the Abel campground at approximately 1700 feet and carefully made our way up to the summit at 5200 feet. No roads will take you to the summit. The only way to get there is on foot climbing over boulders and up steep terrain. When we got to the top I remember thinking I didn't know we had anything like this in America. It is quite a view looking down at the surrounding terrain. Someday when our children are older we plan to take our son and daughter to Mt. Katahdin, so they can experience Mt. Katahdin for themselves and see why we choose Katahdin as our family name. 
When my husband Don and I got married in 2000, we announced that we planned to choose a new family name. In July 2002 we officially changed our names to Katahdin after the birth of our son who incidentally was conceived in July of the previous year. Choosing names for a baby is a little trickier when you're trying to decide what the family name will be also. We wanted to be united under one family name, but our names seemed too long to hyphenate. We'd heard of people playing scrabble with the letters of their names, or taking part of their names and making a new combined name. Combining Sheppard and Weber to become Weppard or Sheber just didn't sound appealing. A couple of weeks before our son was born the idea of becoming the Katahdin's came to mind. I remember well how I felt the day we climbed Mt. Katahdin. Why not take that as our family name. 
The next hurdle was to find out what the word "Katahdin" meant. We were having difficulties getting that information. For all we knew it might mean “great pile of buffalo dung". Luckily it means “highest mountain” in one of the Native American languages of Maine.