Small Wonders Childbirth

“May all the healers of the earth find their own healing.
May they be fueled by passionate love for the earth. May they know their fear but not be stopped by fear. May they feel their anger and yet not be ruled by rage.
May they honor their grief but not be paralyzed by sorrow.
May they transform fear, rage, and grief into compassion and the inspiration to act in service of what they love.
May they find the help, the resources, the courage, the luck, the strength, the love, the health, the joy that they need to do the work.
May they be in the right place, at the right time, in the right way.
May they bring alive a great awakening, open a listening ear to hear the earth's voice, transform imbalance to balance, hate and greed to love.
Blessed be the healers of the earth.”

~ Starhawk
www.starhawk.org

Art by Roberta Orpwood, “Earth Allies”
www.linktr.ee/soulbirdart

“People tell us not to feed for comfort while they sip their sleepy-time tea.⁣
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People tell us to not cuddle our children to sleep while they spoon their partner.⁣
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People tell us our child is too old to breastfeed while they sip their cow's milk.⁣
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People tell us not to nurse or rock our babies to sleep while they sell us the latest gadget that’s supposed to do the exact same thing.⁣
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People tell us to let them cry, while they go comfort a friend.⁣
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People tell us responding to our child is creating bad habits, while they smoke and drink.⁣
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Man, do they tell us! But I'm not them and neither are you. Because we hear our instincts loud and clear and they will not be silenced.⁣
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Because even though we are exhausted, we know our baby’s cry is not a protest, but a communication.⁣
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Because we know their need for us at 3am is not a manipulation.⁣
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Because even though our backs and hips ache from sleeping in that dang c position, we know that little indent on the right side of our bed will soon fade away - and we would welcome that pain in our body just to feel them latch one more time.⁣
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People tell us, but we know. we know this is important, we know that this is right for us and our baby, and we know this is just how it’s supposed to be.⁣
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We know mama, they may tell us, but let’s rest in our know.”⁣
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~ Melissa Ostroth

www.milkitivity.com

Art by Catie Atkinson
www.linktr.ee/spiritysol

"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?"

Words and Art by Catie Atkinson

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As you navigate your thoughts around birth may you find the peace to guide you towards a magnificent journey. 🕉️
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Hey Labor and Birth Nurses!
What do you do when a mom comes to your labor and birth floor and
wants to have a natural birth? Are the majority of the woman you encounter
saying they want an epidural as soon as they get to the birthing unit?
How do you help a birthing mom without an epidural?

Hey I know what it is all about, I am a Nurse and we only learned what could go wrong in nursing school and how to fix it, but what about births that don’t need to be fixed?
We were trained to be fear based, and if we see births that outcomes are not so good then we want to make sure that never happens again. We become hypervigilant with medical interventions.
We also know that when you are busy it is easier to take care of someone who has an epidural so the machines do the work while you are running around doing everything else Right?!
So, what does a natural labor look like? Would you feel more comfortable knowing ways to support a woman in birth and be able to stay with her and honor her birth in the time it takes to get the epidural, start the Pitocin, insert the foley etc. etc.?

I would love to hear from you and what your thoughts are.
Cheers to many Happy Birthdays!
dee*

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I am worthy of a positive and empowering birth experience.

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It is mothers day weekend coming up!😍
Do you remember the birth of your baby with love and joy? I love celebrating the brave women warriors who got to experience one of lifes' most amazing transtions. I am grateful for the birth of my 3 amazing humans and honored and humbled to have witnessed over 500 babies being born into the loving arms of their mamas. There is nothing that compares to attending a birth. Please comment below if you have emotions of joy and peace or do have regrets if you hoped the birth of your baby would have been different. What can be done to help you release any pain or guilt? How can we help other mamas to be?

Sending you all love and light dee*

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They told you about the contractions, but did they tell you about the expansion? Did they tell you how your body would open to make way for the whole universe to pass through? Did they tell you how your heart would explode with a love bigger than anything you’ve ever known as you pulled your baby to your chest?

They told you about the ring of fire but did they tell you about the crown of stars?

Did they mention that there’s a moment when your baby enters the world and you leave your body and touch the heavens and become the light of a million galaxies? Did they tell you how the pain of stretching to receive your child would be more exsquisite than any sensation you’ve felt?

They told you would scream but did they tell you about how you would roar? Did they tell you about the power that would rise up from your belly as you called your baby forth with your mighty voice? Did they tell you how you would embody the wild woman within you and breathe fire with your song?

They told you would bleed, but did they tell you how that sacred blood wouldn’t scare you? How you would feel grateful for that magical liquid of life as it trickled down your leg- how you would honor its flow and how it would help you heal a lifetime of hating your body’s bleeding cycles.
They told these stories and taught you to fear birth, to fear your power, to fear yourself. But you’re stronger and wiser than that mama. You know that birth is your divine dance, your soul’s song, your moment with God, and you walk fearlessly into her open arms.
- Reposted from Spirit Y Sol

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To their credit, my kids have always handled it really well 😂

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