Allowing Birth

17/04/2025

To me- this is the heart of birth. The greatest gift. During birth surrendering can feel terrifying, and in life as well. In order to evolve, create something new, birth, and even grow we have to let go of the known in order to allow for the unknown. This is birth’s greatest offering. For me, my first birth showed me this, and ever since the echo of surrender has been luring me to follow. Just when I think I’ve surrendered enough, there is more. Birth is amazing….and it’s just the beginning of on echo that will resound through each moment.

13/04/2025

Knowledge is the precursor to experience….

10/04/2025

I am offering private sessions to women and couples preparing for birth. My approach is through the paradigm of wellness, wholeness, and expansion. Exploring the design of the entire birthing process, postpartum healing, and early nurturing of newborns- all through the biological requirements of mammalian life 🌈 You can reach me at allowingbirth.com

25/05/2022

03/02/2022

Finding time do nourish myself feels like waiting for the right time to jump into a game of double Dutch. The jump ropes keep revolving …one- two…one-two. If I jump too early or too late the rhythm is lost. Timing is everything.

I’m sure I’m not alone in creating an impossibly long to-do list mentally while watching the jump ropes ebb and flow, waiting for the time when I can accomplish something. Sometimes the lack of time can drain me and I can feel really grumpy- and other times it feels like a gift. The gift of purification- or curation- of really honing in on what is necessary.

After several days of missing the window- I knew that when the window opened up I wanted to light some candles, pull some cards, and say some prayers. The prayer lately has been to my ancestors to continuously guide me and help me stay on the highest path.

And today the candles are lit for my nephew who is 13 today! An initiative celebration of reaching the teens. The other candle is for my father who would have been 78 tomorrow. The last time I saw him he was 64. I enjoy tending to these relationships in these ways -

who else out there feels the potency of alone time after caring for children 24/7?✨✨✨✨✨✨

16/01/2022

Starting a new class today for couples birthing at home.

I truly love my work. The people I meet always blow me away. Each group feels like no accident- in who signs up, what comes out of my mouth, and what we exchange together.

Birth is an enormous rite of passage. How can you see yourself through this transformation?✨

28/12/2021

2022 🥂🍾🥂

All you pregnant folk out there birthing at home this march or April- I still have spots left in my January/February class and would love for you to join!

Classes meet on Sundays in January starting January 9th. Message me for details or contact we through my website✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

The couples that sign up are all amazing parents to be- I am so lucky to get to work with such amazing people!

24/11/2021

✨9 months 3 day in / 9 months 3 days out ✨

A celebration of you Willow.
All the growing.
All the love.
Was there a time before you?

A celebration of me.
All the growing.
All the love.
Isn’t *this* who I’ve always been?

20/11/2021

Day 5: The Future Postpartum

I really think my purpose in this lifetime is to reconnect my family line to birth and all the richness and answers and health that lies in the experience when we allow it to be what it can be.

Knowing that my children have all witnessed each others arrivals and tender first few weeks and months feels meaningful in the biggest sense.

My intention is for them is to know from a felt sense - how to birth, feed, and be WITH, not separate from, their own children. To have cellular memory being cared for outside the cultural norms of disembodied practice.

They will feel rooted in physiology and not question near as much as did. My role was to reconnect, and their role I hope, will be to live fully in the connection. And to show up for each other in these ways when they begin their families.

19/11/2021

Postpartum Challenge Day 4: The Later Postpartum 🦚



Postpartum is forever! We just aren’t the same people as before we have children, or experience pregnancy. The veil has been lifted and we see everything differently.

Our bodies will never be like they were before, and the fact that we are so afraid and confused be that reality only highlights how little we are prepared for this rite of passage.

We are born too - the day day our baby is born. And with each subsequent baby, born again and again. We must be mothered as we learn how to mother. We need holding and nourishing and checking in on just like our children do. Where will this come from? Not just from our partners? We need the women to gather.

I try to see myself as new and fresh and deserving of love, support, and healing. I hope you can see yourself that way, and your own mother that way too. We mothers are the containers for life. Creating the boundaries for our families. We deserve and require care and tending to and containing once we are postpartum forever.

17/11/2021

Day 4: The Again Postpartum

No two postpartums have felt the same- for good reason! There are always other beings around needing support that weren’t there before. And I’m a totally new person with the wisdom from last time.
I’ve have been lucky in many ways. My family has always given me so much, even when it hasn’t been convenient- I know they haven’t wanted to miss marking this special transformational time with me and honoring me and my new family. And they have been wonderful practical help.

After my second birth- we were living together with my MIL. This was so nice because my first child got so much attention from her and I didn’t really struggle that much with caring for two. My husband was working a lot- but also present when he could be. I know I was fed well and able to rest with the baby. I will always feel grateful for that. My mother and sisters also came to help and witness me.

My third postpartum felt different because I had two active children who needed to be moving a lot and outside a lot. My mother and mother in law came to help and my husband took the big kids out a lot- again I know I ate well and was able to rest- but felt lonely some.

This fourth time around I finally hired a postpartum doula. She came for 12 three hour visits. Her energy was such a bright spot in our week. The kids enjoyed her and my husband felt good being able to leave knowing she was coming. My mother and two sisters came too to help and be with me. And at 4 months pp I decided to go to Denver for the summer to be around a larger family unit.

Taking care of yourself really does take a village. It’s not really about the doing- it’s mostly about the rest….slowing down….and connection with others. That took me a while to realize and to give myself. so worth it! .riddle

17/11/2021

Day 2: The hidden postpartum


There is so much shame that can be felt in loss. In 2019 I found out I was pregnant after actively trying to prevent pregnancy. I was really scared. It’s a long story, but after getting on board with where I was- about a month later the baby decided not to stay. I felt confused and ashamed…like somehow my slow acceptance of the pregnancy caused the miscarriage. I know that isn’t true but it was hard to talk to others about.

The passing of the pregnancy felt like a mini birth. Talking to people about that felt awkward. It’s shocking- who can hold space for it? Who wants to tell you “these things happen”. Some people implied I dodged a bullet with the miscarriage. Who wants to hear the downloads I got from this experience? Not many. People are uncomfortable with loss and with how we make meaning of it. I bled more in my miscarriage than in all my four live births combined. I wasn’t prepared for that and had to spend time rebuilding my iron.

I am so grateful for the people in my life who recognized me in this postpartum. It meant a lot.