02/25/2026
*Long post*
**Grief & loss mentioned
Huge joy-filled ending**
🍃When a birth worker is pregnant, grows a baby for months and then labors… births a baby… there’s a weight to it…There’s the buzz of a thousand moments impressed upon her heart- the moments of others.. their joy, hope, excitement, fear… the very essence of life (and death) lives within them. Often, quietly🩷
🍂When a birth worker is pregnant, grows a baby for months & her baby is lost and she births…the weight is held...swallowed….The buzz is of her own cries and the stretching of her own soul… there’s a new understanding that lives inside her now…
✨When a birth worker goes back to “working” after that loss…her bruised heart then finds the ways in which it holds others. Long after her body has healed, her heart is slowly mended..bearing a new scar…
It’s clear she is not doing this work for any earthly reason… it is because she is built for and nourished by it and in someways adequately healed within it.
🌈When a birth worker is carrying a
rainbow inside her for months and it grows and grows in spite of the feeling of holding breath, holding fear.. holding hope..holding other mothers…it grows… and the next time you hear her heart and soul groan, it sounds different and the the breath, the fear and the hope is released… that rainbow has breath, heart, life…
When you hold the hearts of your community as they grow their families while YOU are growing yours… it hits differently.
There’s not enough words that can express or even remotely describe what an honor and a joy it’s been to watch this family grow and evolve through the last couple years of their experiences. Watching these big brothers and sisters observe such a life event and participate w excitement was so fun and special 🥹 They will always remember their sister’s birth.
✨Welcome Home Baby E✨
H Family, thank you for the invitation 🩷
Second Midwife as Assistant : Taryn of
Support: Lindsi of
Doula: Kait
The room: supported with love from various community members, you know who you are, 🙏🏻 🩷