07/17/2025
When homes are filled with family, waiting, patience, service, food and love.
We were called to serve a family welcoming there very first baby. It’s so special to walk along side someone as they discover an entire new way of being in the world. The learning, opening, expanding and integrating is so humbling to witness.
The fun, really made up , ‘guess date’, comes and goes. Waters open during the pre-dawn light and the waiting continues. The day unfolds with excitement and the ordinary. Beloved family members arrive from afar to support and love this family through their journey and beyond. Everyone settles in for a night of rest and some random belly embraces begin. Some hours of awakeness, to ease into this new rhythm.
As the next day arrives we connect to explore desires for catching up on rest. The family strongly desires an enhancement of these sensations that are now slipping away. We explore how the two individuals within one body have a synergistic relationship in ways we can barely begin to understand and that the pause in the belly embraces is likely part of the way for this labor. We also explored honoring this dyad's way of knowing what was the path for them, that we trusted the wisdom only they had.
‘There inner knowing’ said lets gently encourage an enhancement of the belly embraces. A breast pump, or loving hands applied, are helpful tools and the surges found growing strength and rhythm again. Support from our team arrived as part of our support circle was supporting another family welcoming their first baby. It was a full and festive day.
As late afternoon arrived, surges began to again slow and this beautiful dyad slipped into another night's rest. Dawn arrived and the returning surges were building. The full circle of support arrived and holding space, witnessing, preparing, assuring, supporting unfolded. This family of three, each with a vital role labored with growing sensations and wonderment. Soon to be grandparents, slipping in and out of their space, to encourage, wipe brows, press hips and assure. In and out of the birth pool, lunges, sidelying releases, belly lifts, hands and knees, sitting on the toilet backwards, continual nourishment, hydration, dimly lit spaces, fan’s, cool wash cloths, all allies in support of this journey.
During this loving and thoughtful families journey, meals were prepared for everyone present in the home. This was a reversal of our usual roles, we are usually the ones preparing food for the laboring family:) This is never anything we expect, we are great at bringing our own food, snacks and hydration and it was such a gift to have warm nourishing food during our stay.
The birth song arrives, the beautiful vibrational toning, that both calls everyone to come close and announces that the sacred is oh so near. Swimming into the world, this cherished little one is picked up by their parents and embraced for the first time. There are a few moments of supporting baby in releasing lung fluids, parents fully involved, talking to baby, holding and stroking baby and welcoming baby fully in. Baby assures us all they are now thriving and so in awe of this new world they have entered.
We cherish this family and the journey they invited us to walk alongside. We love intergenerational birth and bonding, when it's a beautiful fit for the family.
