24/06/2022
A small window into a very intimate moment in our lives.
This is the moment newest wawa was handed to me, blue and wet, placenta still attached, cord still pulsing, after we had seen him be lifted out of my belly in the operating room.
Even though neither of my births ended being the homebirths I’d dreamed of, but instead something very different, I am endlessly humbled and grateful for the thinning veil, my intuition, my visions, my babies and my body, that made it possible for me, to bring both of these amazing beings earthside alive and whole.
As a homebirth midwife, the process of integrating traumatic birth within my own body, has taken years, and is a work in progress that is still very much moving and shifting, especially now after my second wawa has come.
I don’t have many, if any, pictures from my first birth, and so this time, while we had more time than last time, my husband made an effort to take pictures through it all, so we have them 🙏🏽