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20/11/2023

This new video from South Africa shows how breech training can make a positive difference. The midwives trained when Breech Without Borders came to South Africa…

20/11/2023

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This new video from South Africa shows how breech training can make a positive difference. The midwives trained when Breech Without Borders came to South Africa…

24/08/2023

Have you written a poem about your birth experience?

09/08/2023

06/08/2023

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"No one told me how terrifying it would be to love as only a mother does. No one told me about how much it would ache.
No one told me about the joy that was deeper and wider that anything I’d known- how somehow it hurt to feel that happy.

No one told me about the heavy weight of that love that would sit on my heart and make it impossible to breathe at times. How I would hold my infant to my chest and want to inhale him-  not just that newborn smell, but some primal, unbearable desire to tuck him back safely below my heart — a desperate wish to keep him safe there forever.

No one told how I would hover over my baby at night, my eyes burning with exhaustion but unable to stop watching as his tiny chest rose and fell with each breath. How the adoration I felt for him would rise up from my chest and pour out of my eyes, buckets of tears I couldn’t explain.

No one told me how the love would swallow me whole. How somehow my life would suddenly feel infinitely more fragile and fleeting. How my own mortality would loom over me like a shadow I’d never seen before and make me want to stop time.

No one told me how giving birth would make me fear death in a way I’d never experienced- how I’d feel that my life was so tightly tied around this love that losing him would be worse than dying a thousand times. How the strings that tethered me to this child would become my life line and how watching him grow and go out into the world would be the most terrifying beautiful thing.

No one told me how becoming a mama would open a door in my heart to a love I didn’t know existed. And how the magnitude of that feeling would leave me scrambling to find my footing in a world that felt suddenly foreign and immensely  real.

No one told me because there aren’t really words, are there?"

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06/08/2023

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Physiological birth is nature’s blueprint for the human species and our survival. Sometimes it needs help. When it doesn’t, continuing physiological care until the placenta arrives is scientifically proven to reduce the potential for haemorrhage. A shot of synthetic oxytocin at this point increases the risk of haemorrhage 2-8 fold. (You can look this up - or read my blog post on this topic)

Physiological care for the birth of the placenta maintains the same calm, warm, private, and sacred space where baby has moved from womb to arms. Taking care of the mother with nourishing foods and drinks replenishes her for this final part of her birthing journey. Now is not the time for outsiders, fear, or fussing.

Caveat time for hospital birthers: Medical personnel are trained to administer routine medical interventions for the birth of the placenta. They have all seen horrific bleeds, problems, and near-misses. They do not know how birth unfolds without them. If you are choosing a physiological birth for your placenta, you may need to spend time in early labour sharing your information and wishes. It may help and it may not.

04/08/2023

03/08/2023

Talk about surprises! What was a surprise at your birth?

A US mum has shared her freebirth experience after delivering surprise twins - not one, but two babies, both born breech.