Serpent Ceremony

21/10/2024

Today’s health system is founded upon colonisation and colonisation is founded upon Fear.

Dig deep, find your roots and connect to it. This is where you will find freedom in yourself, freedom in your mind.

We, ourselves, have created everything around us. There is no one to blame here. May we forgive, move on and find the right way, always 🙏🏼

Know that you are not alone in your path of reclaiming your sovereignty. There are many that are here to guide you and I am one of them.

And remember, you carry within you all the wisdom and knowings of your ancestors within each of your cells. When you create space for stillness you will instinctively know what course of action is required in your journey and I’m so here to support that 🙌🏽

With unconditional love,
Nisah 💗✨

16/05/2024

The womb medicine we have been gifted as women, to allow our transformation from maiden to mother, is a sacred rebirthing process which must be honoured, acknowledged or at least recognised.

A woman’s pregnancy (through to motherhood) is a journey of self-discovery to self-actualisation. It is within this space of reflection and self-care, is where she unearths her truths and traumas, her trials and tribulations, her power and joy.

And what is not resolved, and that which requires resolution in order to be a mother to her newborn child, may manifest in the birth-giving process.

There is not enough attention provided to women within this arena. The journey of her psyche, her wild emotions and all the things that the birth portal opens her up to: inner safety, vulnerability, fear, confrontation.

There is no space nor time within the parameters of the system guidelines. Hospitals are akin to a factory line and beds to manage…

Natural physiological birth is becoming an extinct phenomenon. I am left wondering how this is going to affect our children of the future. Slowly, slowly, the information from our ancestors in our DNA of giving birth using instinct and intuition will slowly be decoded with fear.

We cannot let this happen.

And so, it is with great love and respect, that I will no longer be supporting births under the present day maternity healthcare system. There are many doula’s who do and you guys fu***ng rock ❤️

What I am here for is to bring the attention to where it is needed. To the realisation of the medicine journey that is pregnancy and childbirth. To bring that honour back to the sacred feminine, the divine mother, to the wild primitive body we have as our powerful and able vessels.

A space to practice our sovereignty and then live it.

From July 2024 onwards, I am in service to the realms of Sovereign Being as Birth Mystic. For this is where I can truly do my work 🙏🏼🌙💗

05/04/2024

Available late August, September & October ✨

May & June are now filled 🙏🏼

13/03/2024

Available spot in May and early June ✨✨

13/02/2024

Sarah was the first mama I supported straight out of doula training. What a way to enter into the birth world. If you want to know why women are freebirthing, have a listen to Sarah’s story and you’ll get an idea!

My Perfect ‘High Risk’ Freebirth

Today on the show I speak to the wonderful and bubbly Sarah. Hailing from Ireland - Sarah is a natural story teller and you just won’t be able to stop listening to this one. Sarah has 3 children and has had 4 losses. She is the epitome of ‘high risk’ for the system! Having had a c-section with her first, an advanced maternal age because she is 40, she’d had significant postpartum haemorrhages and also had taken a cocktail of drugs to ‘sustain’ this pregnancy - she had all the high risk boxes ticked. Sarah talks us through her absolutely horrific first birth where she was taken for a c-section at 10cm dilated - she was separated from her baby and only met her many hours after. Her second was a VBAC in hospital and although at the time is was comparatively amazing - in retrospect she realises all the flaws there. For her last pregnancy - she decided to freebirth late into the pregnancy and had the most amazing perfect birth. Sarah tells us how she handled her postpartum haemorrhage at home - clue - just look to nature. She finishes by telling us how amazing the feeling is after a freebirth and how she believes every mother deserves to feel this. You can hear in the interview how genuine and necessary this feeling is. Sarah is an absolute delight to listen and I hope you get as big a thrill out of listening to her as I did.

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/natalie-rees/episodes/My-Perfect-High-Risk-Freebirth-e2fku8k

19/01/2024

An 11,600-year-old figure of a woman giving birth breech, discovered in Göbeklitepe. Additionally, she is the only female figure found in Göbeklitepe so far. Şanlıurfa Archeology Museum.

31/12/2023

✨ Firstly, know that there are many options out there and know that it is possible to birth your way.

✨ Set & Setting 🪷 If you have ever entered into an altered state of consciousness from a previous natural birth, from plant medicine, through meditation or breath work, you will know that the people around you (aka your care-providers) and the environment (your birth space) are key players as to how events can unfold. So choose your birth team well and choose the space where you are most calm and relaxed.

✨ Address your fears before birth. Most of the time it is a case of filling the knowledge gaps. Other times you will need more work on nutting out the root cause and sometimes it’s a matter of just being heard.

✨ Be informed. I cannot stress this enough! There are tonnes of resources out there which can feel overwhelming. Birth Mapping will prompt you to ask the right questions so you can go forth and find the information that is specific to you and your needs.

✨ Read and watch positive birth stories and learn about birth physiology (what your body does to grow baby and birth baby). You will be so amazed at how awesome our bodies are and you will know how to give it maximum support to do its’ thing!

💫 If you feel you need more help, hire a doula. Ensure you find the doula who resonates with your beliefs and your values.

💫 I offer consultations pre-birth to guide you into building your dream team, Birth Mapping sessions to build your birth plan, and guidance on finding evidence-based resources specific to your circumstances.

💫 I’m a damn good listener and my heart is open to hold space for you throughout your pregnancy and birth journey.

If this inspires you, please feel free to send me a DM for a no obligation chat 💕✨

19/12/2023

The medical system falls under the mechanistic paradigm. Ask yourself if this view serves you and if it doesn’t, find the care-providers that will because they’re out there.

Although a healthy baby is what we all want, unfortunately the mother is put in the back seat to get to this outcome resulting in the epidemic of birth trauma we have today.

I struggle to see a maternity system that serves women when there is a lack of education on birth physiology and when we’re so trigger happy with our scissors, knives and synthetic drugs.

It may seem like it’s hippy dippy boloney to create a calm, peaceful, dark birthing environment with music, and essential oils. But alas, it is none other than a form of bio hacking and based on science.

I hope to see a world where this is commonplace in the birth space.

02/12/2023

This is exactly what we need in the birthing suite of the maternity wards in hospitals. Light does the exact same thing to humans giving birth too! Disrupting the melatonin production can inhibit the release of oxytocin sometimes causing “failure to progress”.

15/11/2023

My books are open for 2024 for mothers with due dates in Feb and beyond! ✨

Send me a DM or shoot me an email to Nisah.razad@motherbirth.com.au

I have spent the past decade delving into natural health for my family, learning about everything low-tox and environmentally friendly. And it is time I share my riches with all the mothers and mothers to be 💖

I am in the process of completing my studies in Health Science and I can’t wait to tinker further to combine herbalism, homeopathy and naturopathy into my services in future! 🌻

14/11/2023

My daughter always asks me to paint with her. This one I painted a day after I had spent countless hours holding space and sitting with a beautiful woman in labour.

Now, I am by no means an artist, but this doesn’t stop me from materialising my visualisations.

Just think about the enormity of sacred power that lies within each birth-giving human, supported by the hands of Mother Nature herself.

Therein lies a portal from the unknown and unmeasured space to this biological and physical world.

My daughter often asks, “but where was I when I wasn’t born yet?”

Birth is deeply spiritual to me. It’s not all based on what we can measure through science. It’s not all objective facts and numbers. It is an intuitive process and as females, we are literally born to do this.

05/11/2023

~ Ceremonial Cacao Smoothie ~ 😋

Yes, this is an empty cup of what was a really delicious mineral rich and nutritious chocolate smoothie - excuse the non-glamorous picture 😝

I needed to note down the ingredients pronto before it is forever forgotten. And I thought I may as well share it too 💖

✨ 2 super ripe bananas
✨ 2 medjool dates
✨ a handful of frozen raspberries
✨ a few tablespoons of Greek yoghurt or coconut yoghurt
✨ 2 teaspoons cacao powder
✨ up to 15g ceremonial grade cacao
✨ 1 - 2 teaspoons maca powder
✨ 1 - 2 tablespoons cashew butter
✨ 1/4 teaspoon vanilla powder / vanilla bean paste / extract
✨ a good glug of water or coconut water

💥 make it with love and blitz it baby!!

💗 food is best eaten with love. This means, put down your device and saviour each sip or bite. Notice how it makes you feel. Make love with what you consume, connect with it, feel the sensations that arise in your body and mind. Food is medicine! 💗

🌿 Pantry ingredients are from none other than my fave shop which is also where I spend some of my time working!

☮️

20/10/2023

This is the story of birthing the beast within me. Of realising how as a society, we discredit the wonderful female anatomy. We give birth and then we put so much pressure on ourselves to go back to our pre-birth body, without taking time to appreciate the immense transformation that had just occurred in the past 9 months.

We discredit the female anatomy with disbelief in its capability to birth without external assistance.

We glorify the fear in movies and teach our girls that it’s scary and painful.

We believe that we are not strong enough because our ‘stronger’ counterparts, the majority of males who rule the world, who have medicalised childbirth, cannot understand the physiology of childbirth.

Childbirth is women’s business after all. So, let us be our own experts on our own bodies and decrease the level of trauma that is experienced within these external care settings. We will ask for help when we require it, thank you.

I’m calling for the de-medicalisation of birth, so more women can meet their true power.