01/01/2025
It's Christmas Eve and I'm officially off call until the new year. The Universe sent us one more baby full of Wisdom Beyond Our Understanding before the new year, and her arrival was singularly perfect and incredibly special like each baby's arrival before hers. Mother was calm, focused, housed safely in her own body. She knows the process of birth: how it works, how to listen to her body, follow its lead with her own intuition. Father was calm, present and attentive, trusting Mother's body and instincts; excited to joyously receive into his hands this newest little being.
I just needed to sit still in this quiet birth center on this Christmas Eve and be grateful. I am incredibly thankful for all the birthing families that work with me, trust and teach me, and are receptive to my guidance, love and support. I am grateful for all the babies that show me the beauty, wonder, and simplicity of the web of life, and how we are all connected to Spirit, despite how hateful and cruel the news will show that we can be to each other. I am grateful that all those families and all those babies have come safely through.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you families. Thank you friends. Thank you deep ancestral wisdom. Thank you education and understanding, questions and science where we ground ourselves. Thank you, intuition. Thank you generous grant providers for believing in me and the Little Birth Center That Could. Thank you, Midwives, fearless, gentle, earnest and brave, with hearts two sizes too big who stand alongside me in supporting this work and loving on these families.
In the upcoming year, may we be strong, may we be bold, may we be safe, and may we stick closely to what our souls know is the right thing: caring and looking out for each other. I look forward to the privilege of caring for the smallest of us, housed inside the strongest of us.
Let's all hold hands and sashay into the new year.
~Nikki
