06/28/2023
As I grow older the more it makes sense to me, my love for the earth, the soil, and food and my love for mothers, birth and babies. You see, they're the same on so many levels. Pregnancy and birth in America is and has been industrialized just as farming has. As the knowledge of how to respectfully care for this land that we all once held is slowly being lost so is the knowledge on how to physiologically carry and birth our babies.
We work our land until it has nothing left to give us anymore, soil once filled with diversity now being sprayed with organic matter, multiple tons to the acre. Women being fed birth control basically from the momentiu of their first bleed until they're ready to start a family. Their bodies in a state of false menopause for the first years of their womanhood. Women wondering why they can't conceive, why they need another IVF treatment, why their bodies can't carry their babies to term.
For millennia farmers have passed down the knowings of when to plant, what to plant together, when to harvest just as the womb keepers have passed down the innate knowings of our reproductive system; when we're fertile, to pick a partner that is right for us, to rest when we bleed and the ancestral power we all hold as women. It's all connected. Since the dawn of time the health of our earth and the health of women have been connected. The same argument can be made for men as well, different day different post.
Rachelle Garcia from says "Mothers are the soil from which humanity grows". Just as our soil is being depleted, mothers are being forced to raise their children from a state of depletion. Taking care of the mothers in our community is just as important as supporting our local farmers, and the two have and will go hand in hand from the beginning of mankind until we no longer inhabit this planet.
As a community based doula I promise to always nourish women by supporting the farmers who are working the hardest to bring us the most nutrient dense food. In doing so I hope to inspire the people I work with to do the same to their friends, sisters, cousins, etc... I truly believe this work can change the world.
When I'm in my kitchen cooking food that was raised/grown 15 miles from my house to package up and bring to a new mom, everything comes full circle for me. My
journey started with a passion for the land, food and nourishing people, and along the way it brought me to the world of women's reproductive health and now here I am stepping through the door of birthwork and nothing has ever felt more aligned for me. I know for the first time in my life, this is where I'm supposed to be. This work is what I'm meant to be doing.
