WellPregnant

22/07/2022

😯 Al het afval wat 1 (ongecompliceerde) ziekenhuisbevalling veroorzaakt in een kunstwerk vastgelegd. 😔🌍❤️

De kunstenaar Maria Koijck :

'This video shows the waste from an uncomplicated hospital birth, more than three garbage bags full. Of course, hygienic work has to be done, but the question arises: Is there another way?'

Uit 'My first little footprint' door Maria Koijck 🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽

https://youtu.be/KLEWQd0T55U

10/07/2022

Baby’s choose where and when they want to be born (if we tune in and listen to them) 🥰

Birth just happens. 🙏🏽 In dit geval in het washok in het huis van haar ouders... De mama ging er vanuit dat de bevalling wel even zou duren. Dus brachten ze onderweg naar het ziekenhuis eerst hun zoontje naar haar ouders. En, nou ja, toen ze daar toch waren kwamen ze ook even binnen zodat hun zoontje wat tijd had om te wennen.

En toen kwam de baby... Naar de aarde begeleid door zijn vader en oma die nog heel efficiënt de omstrengelde navelstreng loswikkelde toen het hoofdje werd geboren... Wat een power en tegenwoordigheid van geest.

Het lijkt een noodsituatie, want ze wilden in het ziekenhuis zijn. Maar is het niet eigenlijk heel geruststellend? Die geboorte gebeurt gewoon. Waar en hoe kun je niet bedenken. Als het eenmaal zover is dan is het allerbeste en allerveiligste wat je kunt doen naar je lichaam luisteren en je eraan overgeven. 🙏🏽❤️

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05/07/2022

Weer je niet wat te doen met je zwangerschapskleding nu je niet meer zwanger bent?
Wel geef ze een tweede leven in iemands anders klerenkast 🥳

Heb je nog een hoop zwangerschapskleding liggen die amper gedragen is? Wil je die graag verkopen zonder moeite? Maak het jezelf gemakkelijk en verkoop je zwangerschapskleding via Re-Belly! Hoe dan? Kijk op:
https://re-belly.be/nl/content/10-verkopen

23/06/2022

Patience isn’t cultivated in our culture.

The transformational spaces of limbo aren’t honoured.

Shed fat in a day,
Make a million this way,
Choose the babies birthday.

The patriarchy seeps into birth in the form of yoni exams not only during labour but in the weeks before.

Our society digs around in vaginas and stretches cervices.

It doesn’t wait for full completion of vaginal sphincter dilation because only the widening of the cervix seems to matter.

Forget placentas being left to vacate in the comfort of a dark space.

There’s no patience for pause.
For the Quietitude.

There’s emphasis on work.

Is it any wonder that we have a world of women who are subliminally devoted to the Saint archetype?

The grandmothers accounts of washing floors and making bread and tending to children, basically being as a means of bringing a baby down are overtaken by only the old wives tales that meet the rushed pace: eat this, stimulate that, even s*x is made into a chore rather than a pleasure, a way to get ‘er done rather than an organic intimate process that naturally facilities the oxytocin state.

Common ease that’s costs nothing is now relegated to fancy.

When women are left to their own devices and given space from expectations they are juicy and open. When they’re told what’s not working, they’re brittle and tight.

We open to birth like we open to love making. On demand hardly cuts it.

Those who tend birth, we have a responsibility to stop. this. s**t.

Not being cavalier, just shining a light on patience.

It’s our role to mirror back to mothers the capability of their body rather than providing her with insidious messages that she isn’t performing, which come through in the form of ‘to do’ lists and projections of what ‘we can do if baby isn’t here by this date’.

It’s uncomfortable waiting to be born but you can’t just push past that.

No more get up, get at it, get through it.

More delta brainwave.

More juice.

More yes.

We tend birth because we understand that being a gatekeeper is about preventing breaking and entering, not becoming a part of it.

Submitting to the latter means spiritual burn out. Gosh, I’ve been there.

We can be...so...gentle.

-Reposted from Siân Marie Pilkington

22/06/2022

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02/06/2022

Last day! 🥳

Wist je dat wij een doula traject ter waarde van 600 euro geven op ons Insta - kanaal? Meedoen kan tot en met morgen! ✨️💕

31/05/2022

My focus? You as a parent 💕
https://www.wellpregnant.be/

“To doula or not to doula?"

Too many mamas-to-be and their partners, ask this is a big question. We are here to tell you, unequivocally, if hiring a doula is an option for you, GO FOR IT, MAMA. (Don't get us started on how insurance should cover them already 🙄) Regardless of your birthing preferences or venue 🏰, having a doula is one of the best ways to set yourself up for a better birth experience and outcome. One of the major reasons? Continuous labor support from a professional who's been there before and is devoted to your birth and your birth alone. Call her your BFF, coach, personal trainer, or she-sherpa, a doula is there to support ONLY YOU for the duration of your labor, vs. medical staff that also have other patients and tasks. This means pressure point massages 💆‍♀️, educated questions/answers 📋, help with breastfeeding 🤱, and snack breaks for your partner 🍿 (+ so much more)” Words and Repost .life
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Thanks to for sharing her doula's one heck of a hip squeeze 💪
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27/05/2022

Tonight at 20h (Brussels time) we’re going live with 🥳.
Be there to learn more about me as a Doula and Yes, we have a surprise for you guys!
So don’t miss it, if you want to be the one who gets lucky tonight 🤩.
(The live is going to be in Dutch)

Bevallen met een doula, het is een fenomeen dat afkomstig is uit Amerika, maar ook hier in België zie je het meer en meer verschijnen. Wat is het, waarom is het er én hoe verloopt het in de praktijk?

24/05/2022

Oh yes it was 🥰!
It’s amazing that we can create and carry life inside of us.
Still can’t wrap my head around the fact that my now 5 month old boy was every inside of me 🥹. Our bodies are amazing!

Thank you Petra for capturing my second pregnancy, forever grateful 🥰

“It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.” — Beyoncé

24/05/2022

It’s been awhile 😅.
We’re still alive, kicking and thriving.

Zen (the bloody one on the picture, duh 😂) was born on the 5th of January.
And to summaries his birth -> amazing 🤩!
Got the home birth I longed and prepared for 🥳.

Other quick updates:
- Just attended an empowering and amazing home birth as a doula 🥰
- As of today you can book me for baby welcoming ceremonies
- I’m focusing more on being offline

Biggest change after my 2d pregnancy and birth:
- I’m now so in love with the pregnancy journey
- Would love to experience the magic of a home birth again
- Ready to have more kids of my own, but not planning to have more at the moment
- Enjoying the baby stage much more than with my first.
- Giving birth now feels almost like an addiction and drug. Yes, giving birth can be amazing and such an amazing trip if you let go and prepare mentally.

See you when I see you!
love, Seraphine