My home, water and lotus birth PART 1 – Preparing
The build-up to the home, water and lotus birth of Shyam Kirtan. Travels through India, working in trauma centres and walking labyrinths….
How a medical doctor becomes a Sacred Holder of Birth
It is not common for a doctor to have a homebirth….nor is it common to find a doctor who will support sacred births – at home or otherwise. This is my story of how my homebirth changed my life to become a Sacred Birth Supporter, lover, practitioner!
Motherwort – Mothering The Mother
The more I read about the herb Motherwort, Leonurus cardiaca, the more I feel so warmed and drawn to her amazing healing potentials!
Dignity is a basic human right in Childbirth too
I have seen racism, rudeness and force by the head of departments. I have seen disregard for consent. I have seen midwives joke and poke and stare at various vulva’s when the mother is conscious and her head is behind the screen in preparation for a caeserian section.
Don’t Let Them Take Your Newborn!
When a mother embraces her newborn baby, her third child to her chest with deep loving affection and relief, a few minutes old and you witness the most precious time in a life, and she says “this is the first time I am seeing a newborn”…you wander what is so wrong with the system that she did not have this with her first 2?
TRANSFERENCE IN BIRTH
“Will the baby breathe?
Everyone is holding their breath. Identifying with the baby unconsciously. We have all returned from our own births – fighting for breath just like this newborn baby; on the verge of suffocation……”