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21/10/2024

7 weeks of Iris Nova 💫

04/09/2024

Iris Nova, born free at home on Sunday morning after a very speedy, fiery labour.
Her feminine energy was felt from very early on. During this pregnancy I felt so strong, whole and I underwent a profound transformation as a woman and midwife.

I birthed her, rebirthed myself as a stronger, wiser woman and the whole family dynamic changed.

I can’t even begin to describe how lucky I feel being embraced by the women in my community while I soak up all the feelings of this early post partum, we feel held, we feel safe, we feel loved ✨

28/08/2024

Zwischen ✨

In between worlds…I could birth in a day, a week or a month.
Oh how overwhelming, how intense, how emotional this phase is.
I am 38 weeks pregnant today and both of my previous pregnancies culminated in birth at 38 weeks exactly. Tomorrow will be the most pregnant I have ever been.

I knew in my heart this pregnancy would be longer. My body is so ready and is asking my mind to surrender and lean into the labour sensations I’ve been feeling for the past week.
My soul is not ready as this will likely be my last pregnancy and I’m not ready to let go of it.
My baby is not ready as I can feel them having a growth spurt and feeling safe inside me for a little longer.

I haven’t been doing anything to encourage labour, I haven’t harvested colostrum this time, I have been resting as much as possible for the past 2 weeks.

I wonder if my intuition on who this baby is will end up be true. Not long until we meet earthside little baby.

Reading Portal by ✨🙏🏻

11/08/2024

Yesterday these amazing women came together to bless me and my baby before we embark on the transformative process birth is. With my sons I did have a baby shower and although I cherish the memories of those days I can honestly say I have never felt so celebrated, safe and held like I did yesterday during my mother blessing. There were happy tears, laughter, baby giggles and delicious food. There were lots of intimate, loving chats and there was a song. A song written by the most talented mama and friend, a song I know I’ll be playing as I bring this baby forward ✨ I wish every woman out there could experience a moment like that in her life ✨

06/08/2024

Somewhere between 34 and 35 weeks pregnant.

Along this journey I have felt the most whole, spiritually awakened, instinctual and feminine since the very start.

I am not only gestating our third baby but a completely new version of myself as a woman, as a mother and as a midwife.

I am expanding and the edges are getting blurry now, where do I end, where does everything else begin?
A truly psychedelic state.

Of course I have doubts: is this baby growing well? Will I make it to “full term”? Will I be able to truly surrender to birth this time? Will I be able to embody the bliss that could be available to me? Will I truly choose it?

Everyday I give myself a moment to tune in and just allow my body to be, to grow, to discover.
What a blessing to embody intuition, what a blessing to be a woman ✨

03/08/2024

World breastfeeding week ✨

I don’t think I can put into words how much breastfeeding means to me but I’ll try.
I have breastfed the boys for a total of 4.5 years and it has not come easy at all but it also felt like second nature after a while.

Atlas was first, with his ravenous, super frequent feeds, with his lip and posterior ties. Although I was already a midwife I had so many doubts, “why is he feeding so so frequently? Do I have enough milk?” Were daily thoughts.
But we learned together and made it to the morning he latched on, looked at me and said “mama, I don’t like your bo***es anymore. I’ll give you a hug instead” 🥲 he was 2 and I was 15 weeks pregnant with his brother.

Then came Silas and wow, what a challenge. 100% Anterior tongue tie and CMPA. I had to change my diet completely but we made it to the day he stopped feeding and said “I’m giving bo***es to baby” 💛 he was 2.5 yo and I was 15 weeks pregnant with this baby I’m carrying.

Breastfeeding has been the hardest, the most all consuming and the BEST thing I’ve ever done and I can’t wait to do it again 🙏🏻

If you’re struggling or just want to talk about breastfeeding or weaning I’m here ✨ just DM me.

08/07/2024

Wow, It’s been a while.. there has been so much growing, both physically and spiritually. It’s such an intense time in my life. Transitioning from medical regulated midwifery to traditional birth keeping, from being in my head a lot to being in my heart space. Growing a third little soul who will soon enough join our crazy family and trying to nurture the wild boys already here. Birth is nearing and I’m preparing for it by preparing my mind, visualising what birth I want to call in and making post-partum plans. Such a special, expansive time ✨

06/06/2024

Happy international home birth day ✨ Home birthing is often sadly seen as a selfish act, there’s a common belief in our culture that if a woman chooses to birth at home she does it only to suit herself best, how irresponsible. Truth is being born at home is a gift for baby, home birthing is safe and a respected gentle birth has a huge effect on mother-baby for the rest of their lives.

05/05/2024

This year the 5th of May feels different. It is indeed as it always is on this date and I am still a midwife.. or am I not? Well, I have recently de-registered so technically I am not allowed to call myself a midwife anymore. And it hurts. Do you know why? I am a midwife, it’s my soul, my core. I am a woman, a mama, a midwife and will always be. This is not a profession, it’s who I am. I love serving women, families. I love being there to support them through matrescence. I just can’t do it in a way that ends up harming them anymore. I can’t remain silent. I can’t work in fear and can’t be truly with woman if I am fearful, if I have to obey protocols and guidelines not rooted in evidence and if I can’t recognise full autonomy of the mother I work for. So yes, I de-registered. And I am a traditional midwife, a birthkeeper, a mother who believes in birth and women. These hands of mine have witnessed so much. Have held so many new lives. Have massaged countless sore backs, have wiped so many tears. They have skills and empathy. They are here to hold space. The hands of a midwife.

01/04/2024

👩🏻‍⚕️ Welcome back to Midwifery Monday!

Today we’re discussing the Glucose Test (OGTT) and what I’m going to say is no April fools joke unfortunately!

The OGTT is “offered” to pregnant women between 24 to 28 weeks into their pregnancies or earlier if multiple risk factors are identified.

Everyone with a BMI>30, age>35, with family history of diabetes, from African, Caribbean, Asian or Middle Eastern backgrounds, who previously had gestational diabetes or a macrosomic baby (more than 4.5kg at birth) will be offered the OGTT.

The glucose test consists of 3 blood tests taken at arrival to the clinic (fasting for at least 8 to 10 hours), 1 hour after drinking the glucose Pro drink (75 g of glucose=almost 19 teaspoons of sugar in one go!) and then at 2 hours after the drink. In between blood tests you won’t be allowed movement as that could use up more glucose to feed your muscle mass and change the test results.
Some centres only test at 2 hours mark and fasting.

Between 15 and 66% of women diagnosed with gestational diabetes DO NOT have gestational diabetes as this test is not accurate (but it’s cheap and easy to perform so 🤷🏻‍♀️).
This will get so many healthy women into the dreaded cascade of intervention as the guideline as it stands today is induction between 38 to 40 weeks of pregnancy with birth desired to happen before 40+6.

This is supposed to mitigate the risk of stillbirth and macrosomia but in terms of stillbirth we know that there is no scientific evidence to support that women who were induced had better outcomes compared to women who waited for labour to start spontaneously. We know though that in the induced group there were more babies who suffered from jaundice and more women who ended up birthing via caesarean.
So again, harm caused to babies and women with no evident health benefit. If you wish to monitor your blood glucose in pregnancy it would be better to continue your usual diet and check your levels at home via finger blood sampling.

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