13/08/2025
How will you describe this feeling?✨
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Just a little second of quiet if you will, for this very raw and intimate moment where a mother realises she’s just birthed her beautiful baby in the water, straight into her arms without a single interruption, as she dreamed of for years 😭
I met this mama on a connect call at around 4ish weeks pregnant. She knew she was setting our call up early, but after an extremely traumatic first birth, she knew she wanted to do things differently the second time, and a huge part of that was rallying her support crew.
And a crew it was.
From her partner and son who were her constants and her physical supports, to her postpartum doula who made sure she was held throughout her fourth trimester. To her private midwife team, Tracy & Heidi from .coast.homebirth & her mum, who flew here from the other side of the world to support, and lil old me, .doula who was her pregnancy cheerleader and birth support.
We were the crew that tended to our brilliant, strong, resilient, warrior mum who wanted better for herself and her family.
What eventuated was a blissful birth at home, without a single interruption. It was everything her first birth wasn’t, in the best possible way.
Birth, at its best, has the power the heal us.
Not by erasing what came before, but reminding us that we are so much more than our hardest moments.
To the mothers who carry more than they should into birth and find redemption, no matter how their birth unfolds, know you are truly remarkable. And to those still holding pain, your story is not over either.
I’m so overwhelmingly grateful to be able to share this footage, from a birth that will quite literally be with me forever. ❤️
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🎥 me, & shared with permission.