Meltwater Birth

02/23/2025

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04/14/2024

so beautiful

03/19/2024

I became fascinated with birth after I became a mother at the age of 20. It was 2001 and I was living in Victoria, BC. My doctor’s office was in her house, my friends were having homebirths and encapsulating their placentas, and I learned what a Doula was that year.

07/27/2021

Feminist, Germaine Greer, described episiotomy as the western equivalent of FGM.

The Perineal Tear Bundle has been one of the most harmful bundles of practice implemented routinely that has now bled across all hospitals who weren't involved in the original roll-out.

How is 20-35% episiotomy rate okay? How does evidence continue to be ignored? How does the system think so poorly of women that routine cutting has become so normalised?

Makes me f #$%ing wild!

05/16/2020

04/07/2020

From Gloria Lemay: Do you like birth stories from 100 years ago in Canada? I really do and a lot can be learned. Two birth attendants in Saskatchewan decided to find and interview older women who had given birth at home. The interviews were conducted in the '90s but have just been transcribed and posted on this blog. Enjoy.

An Oral History Project

03/31/2020

😭❤️

"This is not what you had planned. This is not what you’d envisioned. There are no visits from friends, no loving doula bringing you soup, no “mommy and me” yoga classes, no coffee dates, no stroller walks through the park. There is empty space where you had planned comfort and company. There are long days with no one but your little one to talk to and this big transition to navigate all alone.

I know it’s lonely, mama. I know the walls of your house feel tight and the days feel so long, and you crave a warm hand on your knee and the soft embrace of a friend. You wish for someone by your side to marvel at this beautiful baby of yours and to wrap an arm around you when the feelings get too big and scary.

We were never meant to do this alone. Motherhood has never been a solitary sport. And yet here we are, in this odd chapter of isolation and distance, with no choice but to do it by ourselves.

But mama, know this- We are alone. Together. You are surrounded all the other mothers who are navigating this tender time in isolation. You are held by all of us who have walked the path before you and who know how much you must be hurting. You are wrapped in the warm embrace of mama earth, as she too settles into this time of slowness and healing.

This too shall pass. And when it does, hugs and coffee dates and visits from friends will taste so much sweeter. Soft kisses on your cheek and arms around your waist and gentle laughter in your ear will be the joyful medicine after this trying time.

Until then, hunker down mama. Find the coziest, warmest spot on your couch, sink into the pile of unfolded laundry, and sleep the Spring away, with that sweet babe warm on your chest."

You are not alone mama.

Image and words by the stunning Spirit Y Sol
https://www.instagram.com/spiritysol/?hl=en

03/21/2020

Home birth❤️

02/13/2020

Actress Busy Philipps was among critics of the ad's rejection, writing on Instagram that she was “sick of living in a society where the act of simply BEING A WOMAN is rejected by the gatekeepers of media.”

01/30/2020

This is me! I thought that my fifth child, almost 9 years after my fourth, would be different. But nope, I have postpartum anxiety yet again. I’m thankful I have the awareness this time around I’m mothering from a place of PTSD, but wow, a spider bite turned into me thinking he had blood cancer and that’s just the tip of that iceberg. Being in the hospital at one month old for a week didn’t help as it upped my level of alertness. I know I’m not alone in this, and since it’s not a depressive feeling at first it can really just feel like it’s normal concern/being a diligent mother. But then the feeling of dread comes and it just kind of stays. Last time talk therapy (CBT) worked for me and it’s time to go back! DM me if you’re a mother who can relate and wants resources! ❤️

Right after I had my first child, my worries seemed like normal new-parent concerns. Then they snowballed into postpartum anxiety. I constantly worried my baby would die of SIDS, that someone would steal him, or that he had cancer. Here’s how to tell if you might have postpartum anxiety and how to...

01/21/2020

Gender neutral language in childbirth and the maternity care system may feel “polite,” but harms women.

12/16/2019

Word.

Just a reminder.