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💖#positivebirthstory “If a woman doesn't look

💖#positivebirthstory
“If a woman doesn't look like a goddess while giving birth then someone isn't treating her right." Ina May Gaskin
This was a quote that really spoke to @camfi1819, she had this and other affirmations on her wall.
To call Camis experience a positive birth story would be more than an understatement! It was empowering and transformative in all the best ways, and most importantly HER positive birth.
She did indeed look (and sound) like an absolute goddess while birthing! This was in part due to being treated right, but also due to her mindset and all the vital work she had done towards her birth journey both physically and inner. Her spirituality, her wise women and guides both seen and unseen, her strength and determination to heal and birth in her divine power.
In addition to hiring me as her doula Cami did work around trauma, debriefed her 1st birth, changed midwife, took hypnobirthing classes, cared for her body and embraced her spiritual practice and did some very important letting go. Making a plan A,B and C
Real inner work and ultimate self kindness, asking for what she needed and leaving the rest. Ready for a magical full moon birth.
Understandably Cami had some wobbles during labour, some self doubt and fear of the unknown. Fear that most birthing people have that they may not cope with the intensity of labour. Myself and her love were there to hold her and reassure her through this.
This birth went from the homebirth service being suspended and preparing for the possible plan B to the homebirth service returning in the morning, plan A, the beautiful home water birth of her dreams with a supportive, respectful and loving birth team! Cami used prayer and song as her main pain relief, she sang her baby into her arms with 3 verses of her song and experienced no pain. This true powerful birthing goddess, held & supported by seen and unseen love.
Free to be and free to birth just as she was. Cami truly worked for and achieved the birth she deserved. What an honour it was to serve her!
#fullmoonbirth #positivebirth #empoweredbirth #birthprep #sacredbirth #birthdoula #birthjusthappened #birthsong #birthgoddess #goddesswisdom #fullmoon

Posted @withregram • Today little Leo was born

Posted @withregram •
Today little Leo was born into the hands of a likely overworked midwife, a midwife working in service of parents and babies under a system in desperate need of change. Parents should not have to enter the birth room worrying that their midwife may not have had adequate rest that day. A midwife should not have to wonder if she’ll be able to eat, drink or pee before her shift end. Parents should not have to gamble on their home births being possible thanks to dire staff shortages. My sister should not have been left anxious for hours after being told “we’ll be right back.” For all these reasons and more, people all over the UK marched today for us all. Safe birth is not just a woman’s issue.
@labour_of_love_doula
Today we gathered. Midwives, doulas, expectant parents; all in support of midwives having functioning, safe working conditions. In support of midwives not having to work ridiculous hours with unpaid overtime. In support of all the big hearted midwives who just can’t keep on in this broken system. #marchwithmidwives #marchwithmidwivesbrighton #betterbirthforall

💖 Early labour 💖 I often bake lovingly with

💖 Early labour 💖
I often bake lovingly with my client in my heart when I get a little message that I may be invited into the birth space at some point. If not then my family get cake, it’s a win win! More often than not though the cake is enjoyed in the birth space.
Baking is actually quite a good and gentle nesting activity for early labour, plus the comforting scent is an oxytocin booster not to mention keeping well fed with love foods such as chocolate cake will only do good! There is a birthing room tradition of the mother making a ‘groaning cake’ to feed her and her birth keepers. It would have traditionally been a rich fruit cake from what I remember reading but I’ve gone chocolate as that’s what my client has been craving!
❤️If I’m asked what to do in early labour I always say rest and distraction is often best. There’s often a temptation to be doing.
Go for long walks, bounce on the birth ball, walk up and down the stairs, douse yourself in clary safe and generally chase the labour, I mean it’s pretty exciting the thought that the event you have waited so long for may be underway plus we’ve been generally been conditioned to aim for efficiency in life and labour isn’t really a measurable thing as much as they’ve tried!
This can not only switch the brain on in an unhelpful way but also exhaust a labouring person too soon, causing your body to hit pause and take the rest it needs. Which then causes anxious “is my body playing tricks on me” feelings and a loss of rhythm. Not helpful.
For early labour, all being well
❤️Rest, nourish, soften, trust, relax and treat yourself so kindly in the ways that are authentic to you, if that’s binging a series on Netflix then go for it. Move when it feels right, rest when it feels right. Maybe start beautifying your sacred birthing space. Eat some cake. No rush. You’ve got this!
#ealylabour #sacredbirth #birthroomcake #birthspace #birthdoula #birthinyourowntime #birthtime

💖Self nurturing How might it look and feel to

💖Self nurturing
How might it look and feel to answer your body and souls call for joyful movement, to move and stretch in flow, breathe deep, give your hips, tummy and all of you some love? connect with and celebrate your softness, messiness and shed some layers? What playlist would you choose for that?
I believe that like art dance and joyful movement is a primal need. But like creativity and making art the importance of joyful movement that comes so naturally to us as children is often lost with age and so often a neglected part of your movement diet. I’ve read @thejoyofemilie so perfectly use this term in relation to slouching before and I love it, your movement diet!
There seems to exist this idea that all we do with our precious time must have a ‘useful’ purpose and it can seem that simple joy isn’t a good enough reason to move or create. But it is, and it’s a deep, primal, vital need, one that your body and heart will call out for in many ways.
💖Today I felt as I have done for a while stuck, my body and heart quite out of sync. I placed my hand on my womb space and asked, what do you need. What is missing from your movement diet? I need to move and dance, Fridays (the goddess day)used to be my day for dance and self love, it was the highlight of my week and an almost 10 year long self nurturing ritual since my discovery of #5rhythms , one that has recently been neglected, filled with work and chores and other ‘important’ things. My soul was telling me it had been too long and a go on the cross trainer would simply not cut it today! So after the school run I threw open the patio doors and danced through the whole Daft punk Alive playlist, sweaty, happy, in love with the day dancing to my shadow and a very unimpressed dog. Simple joyful, celebratory movement, just the self care I needed! I will be back to Friyays soon @grooveforu
#dance #joyfulmovement #selfnurture #selfcare #movementdiet #movewithjoy #listentoyourbody #loveyourbody

Mother guilt The moment we are born as mothers it

Mother guilt
The moment we are born as mothers it seems that mother guilt is born with us. There are days where it can feel all consuming!
It’s exhausting to give as much of ourselves as motherhood seems to require and we should allow ourselves to not enjoy every aspect of it because it’s just not realistic and it’s not very kind to ourselves. I believe that it’s a practice in itself, an imperfect one of course to be just as kind and patient with ourselves as we would our dearest friend because Gentle parenting is so much more than just being gentle with our children, we must also be gentle and accepting with ourselves.
It is so normal and not at all ingratitude to not enjoy the less enjoyable aspects of the motherhood experience. It’s normal to find hard things hard, the harder days and moments of motherhood are just as relevant and worthy of discussion and recognition as the good. I am here with loving arms and an open heart for the honest discussions around motherhood. You are so welcome however you are experiencing motherhood today, we must hold each other in kindness on those days and inevitable stretches of time that are messy, tiring, frustrating or boring. That’s just reality, some days and moments will be less than wonderful and when you’re feeling exhausted, lonely, messy or bored know that you are simply having feelings, you are not those feelings.
We as mothers experienced an earth shattering soul explosion to get here. Just as our babies entered a whole new universe when they joined us earth side so did we, what a profound and heart expanding transformation and one that is in no way 100% awesome 100% of the time, it does not simply become easy after your 4th trimester is over. It is so much more than hormones that plunge us into what feels like another dimension. We put so much pressure on ourselves to be better than, different than, do as well as. Let’s just be kind, kind to ourselves as much as we can and hold each other with love and kindness in all our messy, magical, motherhood experience however we are experiencing it because Motherhood is so much more than the good days
#motherhood #mothertruth #motherhoodunplugged #motherguilt

Absolutely! Birth keepers, doulas and some wonderf

Absolutely! Birth keepers, doulas and some wonderful midwives are not anti intervention. We are anti unnecessary and questionable intervention. We are pro birthing people having choice and ownership of their bodies and the right information about those choices.
Posted @withregram • @drsarawickham There are some stunningly good reasons to offer to induce someone’s labour.

Serious pre-eclampsia, for one. That’s a brilliant reason to recommend induction.

Or where the baby has a health problem or condition that will certainly get worse if they stay in the womb for longer. Also a great reason to recommend inducing labour.

Being Black, Brown, Asian or mixed race?

🙄🤦🏿‍♀️

Being older or a bit fatter than average? Or having conceived via IVF or ARTs?

Having a suspected big baby, when we know that there’s a 15% margin of error either way on ultrasound estimation?

In some of these situations, some data show that there’s a slightly increased chance of stillbirth in those groups compared to some other groups.

But it’s complicated.

Sometimes, different studies show different things. The difference can be tiny. Most importantly, we often don’t have any robust studies showing that inducing labour will reduce the risk. And we DO have studies showing that induction has short, medium and long-term health consequences, leads to more intervention, can cause distress and trauma and a whole load of other things that aren’t ideal.

So there’s more to it than just recommending induction for anyone who is deemed to be “at higher risk.”

If you want to read more about the evidence, see www.sarawickham.com/iol

Because there’s nothing wrong with induction when it’s appropriate, justified and done after someone has made an informed decision that it’s right for them.

It’s just that this isn’t always what’s happening.

#midwives #midwife #midwifery #health #doula #birthdoula #childbirth #childbirtheducator #childbirtheducation #happybirthday #informedchoice #drsarawickham #whatsrightforyou #whatsrightforme #birthday #positivebirth #evidence #induction #birthdecisions #womanempowerment #youdoyou #birthright #women

🖤 Halloween baby shower & Halloween party with

🖤 Halloween baby shower & Halloween party with some of my Portsmouth loves! I’m covering up my newest nephew but you can almost see his lil bald head behind me 😆 Looking forward to our new little friend joining us earth side soon, between us sisters we will have 9 babes!
🖤 Sending warm Samhain blessings to you all as we step into and welcome the dark, restful times ahead. Like nature let us rest, replenish, feast and reflect on this “Fire of Peace” How will we tend to and nurture our selves during the colder and darker months ahead?
#wheeloftheyear #samhain #fire #haloween #familyday #babyshower #tendyourfire

❤️Big Food hugs for a goddess❤️ I had a gr

❤️Big Food hugs for a goddess❤️
I had a great time lovingly preparing this big package for a dear mother sinking into her time of in between. What a joy to have the opportunity to feed her in her postnatal season for the 2nd time!
These bags contain:
Chicken ginger broth
Chicken, wild mushroom & squash pie
Seedy granola
Sweet potato pate
Sticky toffee pudding
banana, peanut butter brownies
Dark chocolate & orange energy bites
Postnatal cookies
Love tea
Sweet dreams bath soak
Whipped body butter
Vital fire tincture
💖Doesn’t that sound super nurturing! Every new parent deserves such nourishment prepared with them in mind because who wants to be thinking about cooking when they could be resting, replenishing and receiving.
Have you planned for your postnatal season? Make sure you include nourishment in that plan. How will you ensure that you are fed, nurtured, warmed and nourished?
Contact me for this season’s offerings!
#postnatalrecovery #postnatalnourishment #feedthemother #foodhugs #thefourthtrimester #4thtrimester #fooddoula #postnataldoula #motherhoodrising #postnatalplan #postpartumrecipes #lifeafterbirth

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