You can get through anything with the right love and support. Don’t underestimate the power of connection, touch and understanding.
Who will work with you on your birth journey? Your partner? Your mum? Your doula? All three?
Message me for doula support. I’d love to support you.
FYI put toilet paper in the toilet bowl bowl before you poop in public toilets people!!!!!! Stops the plop sound (hate peeing next to someone plopping) and keeps the toilet clean for the next person you dirty mofos. #CommonSense
My Grandmother, and my Great Grandmother. Both beautiful aboriginal women from the Biripi tribe whom I never had the privilege of meeting. Today I think of them, and my ancestors, and what they endured and lost as Australia became the nation it is today. #changethedate
M: “Did we talk about an episiotomy?”
W: shakes head no. “I don’t want one”
M: “you’re going to tear, what about a little one”
W: shakes head during contraction. “No”
M: “what did she say?”
H: “She really doesn’t want one.”
M: sighs heavily “oh well you’re going to tear.”
Choice.
Hire a birth photographer, they capture the scrumptious details for u. Looking at ur frames prolongs ur highs, heals ur lows. Your photographer brings light to the dark, calm to the chaos. A defining moment of ur life, a family is born. Its raw, real & fucking achingly beautiful.
I hate it when birth workers call themselves “birth keepers”. I feel it takes away from the birthing persons power. Like, if you don’t have a “birth keeper” present, you’re fucked?
“If you don’t try harder I’ll take you upstairs for a cesarean”. ~ actual words I heard an OB tell a 22yr old first time mother as she was trying to push her baby out. #helpfulNOT
However ur babe leaves your body, it’s birth. Some say having a c-sec is easy, not true. Ppl who have had one can experience more difficulty, pain, & longer recovery. BUT a vaginal birth that was difficult or caused extensive tearing can be just as challenging as c-sec recovery.
I didn’t breastfeed. Chose not too. Was very supported by friends, family and care providers.
Except for that one friend (who of course is childless) who decided to send me 6 litres of CAMEL MILK to give my baby. Because you know, it’s way better than formula 💁🏽♀️💁🏽♀️