Positive Homebirth with an Emotional Breakthrough - Birth Story of Baby #4 birth midwife positive pregnancy through surah maryam pregnancy Jul 26, 2023

"Hold on, get your chest on the ground, your bum in the air and try to wait for me!" said my midwife as she rushed to get off our call and into her car to drive to our house. 

It was 12:30am in the morning. September 2023. I had just called her (from the bath, where I was relaxing through...

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Preparing for birth and beyond - Part 3: Setting up the atmosphere and environment for labour and birth birth pregnancy Oct 16, 2021

(originally published in 2018)

[If this blog post interests you, you might want to look at my pregnancy course where I go much deeper into these topics]

This aspect of birth prep is, for me, very connected to emotional preparations for birth. French obstetrician Michele Odent talks about how women...

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Preparing for birth and beyond - Part 2: Emotional Prep birth pregnancy Oct 16, 2021

(Originally posted in 2018)

[ If these posts interests you and you want to know more - I go more deeply into the topic of preparing for birth in my pregnancy course which will be released soon.] 

Previously I wrote about how I'm preparing my body physically for birth and recovery....

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Preparing for birth and beyond - Part 1: Physical Prep pregnancy Oct 05, 2021
(Originally posted in 2018) 
 
 Birth has become rather medicalised and today most of us consider packing a hospital bag to be the majority of our "birth/labour preparations".
 
I've been blessed to have been exposed to a very different approach to giving birth and...
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