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Womb Phases I’m Jade and I’m a Birth and Bereavement Doula specialising in Hypnobirthing and Home birth
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Out of the womb and into the light,A brand new being, pure and bright,A tiny body, delicate and small,With endless poten...
11/04/2023

Out of the womb and into the light,
A brand new being, pure and bright,
A tiny body, delicate and small,
With endless potential, and love in thrall.

A cry echoes through the air,
Announcing a new life, beyond compare,
The joy and wonder, that fills the room,
As a new family is born, in love to bloom.

The miracle of birth, a wondrous thing,
As a new soul emerges, with a heart to sing,
A future filled with endless possibility,
And a journey of growth, with hope and tenacity.

So let us celebrate this miracle of life,
With love and joy, and without any strife,
For every birth, a new chapter starts,
A precious gift, that fills our hearts.
- J Wood

Join me for 12 hours of childbirth education from the comfort of your own home! Classes take place online, via Skype eve...
03/03/2023

Join me for 12 hours of childbirth education from the comfort of your own home! Classes take place online, via Skype every week for 4 weeks!

PLUS you get access to me as your virtual doula for the duration of your pregnancy, birth and postpartum journey 👼

Group Course dates for March/April: 
27 March, 3 April, 10 April, 17 April
6:30PM - 9:00PM

Private Classes are held in a time that is suitable for your schedule.

Please feel free to dm me if you’d like to find out more or if you’d like to make a booking.

Jade ###

😂 it’s funny cause it’s true!That’s why re-birthing is so special 🥹💖
07/01/2023

😂 it’s funny cause it’s true!
That’s why re-birthing is so special 🥹💖

I'm so grateful for our birthing session with you Jade. Not only did you guide us and give us the tools to help us plan ...
28/11/2022

I'm so grateful for our birthing session with you Jade. Not only did you guide us and give us the tools to help us plan and prepare for the birth of our baby girl, you truely embody what you teach.

Your on going support after the session is also something that is so rare these days. Helping us integrate and giving us the support and courage to stand in our truth and ask for exactly what we wanted from the doctors for the birth of our baby.

You gave us all the resources to show our doctors exactly the type of birth we wanted. It's because of these tools that we were able to have the exact birth we hoped for.

The doctors completely respected our birth plan and honoured everything we asked for. After the birth we had three of the professionals thanking us for showing them a different way.

They were so grateful to us for helping them see a different perspective and for giving them an opportunity to meet the needs of their client.

They thanked us as they know that the way they delivered put daughter India, will appeal to so many future clients, focusing on a more gentle approach, where the family is in complete control over the birth of their baby.

I’m grateful that this will open up to future soon to be parents too in Bali. I'm forever grateful to you Jade. My birth process was everything I hoped for and it allowed me to move into motherhood with ease.

It felt like such a graceful process for me and I believe with every fibre of my being that is was because of your incredible guidance in creating our birth plan and standing our ground, it was exactly as we anticipated.

Thank you for sharing your light, you are a gift to this world 🤍

With love, Sherri

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Top Tip Tuesday 🤞Labour can be many things that you want it to be but the truth is we don’t choose when we go into labou...
14/09/2022

Top Tip Tuesday 🤞

Labour can be many things that you want it to be but the truth is we don’t choose when we go into labour and we (sometimes*) don’t choose how long it will take for our baby to be born, in some cases we don’t even know who will care for us on the day of our birthing if we don’t have a private midwife caring for us.

Here just a small handful of advice I personally found helpful as a birthing mother - and which I now pass on to everyone that asks me for advice or that attends my classes 👌

*there are women that have used hypnobirthing techniques to choose how long their labour would be and on occasion, it was spot on to their experience. Mind over matter 😍

Do you have a tip to add or a question as a birth partner? 🥰

It’s no shock to me that the Love Hormone, Feel Good hormones and Fight or Flight hormones are some of the primary hormo...
12/09/2022

It’s no shock to me that the Love Hormone, Feel Good hormones and Fight or Flight hormones are some of the primary hormones working to make birth happen effectively.

Birth is a process with many moving and working parts. When you look at it as a whole, it’s really very simple. It would be natural that when we unnecessarily interfere with the natural flow of birth hormones, birth becomes complicated.

Meet some of your Birth Hormones🥰

Leisle is an amazing Support for mommies and of course their babies! ❤️
02/08/2022

Leisle is an amazing Support for mommies and of course their babies! ❤️

Boobalicious! Just for your baby. Ok husbands and partners to😜
If you are not sure if you can or want to breastfeed. Why not come for a chat💕

It is baffling that women of colour have a higher chance of dying during pregnancy and childbirth- due to a lack of adeq...
19/07/2022

It is baffling that women of colour have a higher chance of dying during pregnancy and childbirth- due to a lack of adequate care from the system meant to protect women and babies.

“AFTERSHOCK”, will premiere on Hulu, Disney+ and Star+ NEXT Tuesday, July 19, 2022


AFTERSHOCK depicts the tragic and preventable death of Shamony Makeba Gibson who died in 2019, just died 13 days following the birth of her second child. The film picks up two months following her death, as Shamony's surviving mother, Shawnee Benton Gibson, bereaved partner, Omari Maynard, their family and community begin navigating their new normal.

Amber Rose Isaac, a 26-year-old first time mother, died due to an emergency c-section after medical providers failed to address a treatable condition that she had during her pregnancy. Within weeks of Amber's death, Omari reaches out to Amber's surviving partner, Bruce McIntyre, and a lifelong bond is formed. Together, Omari, Bruce and Shawnee begin the fight for justice for their lost loved ones while caring for the children that were left behind.

Through the film, we witness two families who become ardent activists in the maternal health space, seeking justice through legislation, medical accountability, community, and the power of art, ritual and healing. Through their collective journeys, we find ourselves on the front lines of the growing birth justice movement that is demanding systemic change within our medical system and government.

IMPORTANT: We encourage every person who is able, to watch Aftershock individually to amplify the views on the Hulu platform and to demonstrate that we are committed to stopping the scourge of black maternal morbidity and mortality.

Please visit hulu.com to access the film. If you don’t have an account, create a free trial today!

For more information about the film, visit:
https://www.aftershockdocumentary.com

It took becoming a mum, for me to finally find my rebellious side. I've been described as 'nice' and 'inoffensive' my en...
17/07/2022

It took becoming a mum, for me to finally find my rebellious side. I've been described as 'nice' and 'inoffensive' my entire life.

But with motherhood came a realisation, an awakening. Because as much as I love being his mum, I’m not so enamoured by the institution of motherhood.

And I’ve discovered that I'm not so good at following its rules. Or its books. But what I once saw as failure, was in fact failure to comply to an imagined framework of impossible ideals written by somebody else.

So, forgive me, but I will feed to sleep. I will rock to sleep. I will (god forbid) indulge in eye-contact with my child at bedtime.

I will embrace the danger nap.

I will skip a bath tonight if we are both beyond it.

I will let go of 'he should be doing this by now'.

I will stop beating myself up for not having arts and crafts available at every turn.

I will let him get bored occasionally.

I will let him snack just before meals to avoid the mother of all meltdowns. I will choose my battles.

I will buy the shop-bought birthday cake.

I will incorporate 'lazy' moments into the course of our day, so that I am not left spent by the end of it.

I now revel in these quiet acts of rebellion; with the knowledge that he is fed, he is safe, he is LOVED.

And I am sane.

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Words: Karen McMillan (Mother Truths)
Image:

Words taken from 'Lessons: Reflections on Early Motherhood' Available to buy worldwide: http://linktr.ee/mother_truths

They don’t teach you how your body works in schoolWhy would they want to?The less you know, the more it benefits them.Yo...
27/06/2022

They don’t teach you how your body works in school

Why would they want to?

The less you know, the more it benefits them.

Your skin is bad at 16? Take this contraceptives pill, we won’t tell you about the side affects.

Every month she writhes in agony, “it’s the Curse of Eve” they say.

But they failed to mention Lilith who chose to do things her way.

They didn’t teach you that you’re the Earth, too. That every month you go through four seasons. They didn’t tell you that you can track your cycle and avoid falling pregnant other ways, too.

They didn’t tell you what happens when you miscarry a baby, or when you need to terminate. They don’t prepare you, for labour - because that’s what it is.

They don’t offer support, I mean, why would she need it? “She chose to have unprotected s*x, right? She chose to open her legs and let a man in. She chose to put her own life first, again- that’s a sin”

I’ve seen how they mistreat women, regardless of where she’s at. She can be birthing the very same baby she was forced to keep and she will still be treated like trash on a dirty street.

Unless she’s privileged with a doula that knows how to manoeuvre the red tape. Women also hire doulas to support them through their abortions, yet so many are afraid to publicly state that they serve in this way- how dare you walk that fine line between life and death? How dare you support a woman regardless of her choices.

How dare you go against the plan set out against us? Take our autonomy, bit by bit. Ignore the issues as they spit poison at those who have no options but to sit with it.

Do not crumble under the pressure, do not become stifled by the words they utter. Remember that we are all standing up, together, my sisters ❤️

Your God and mine cannot be the same
25/06/2022

Your God and mine cannot be the same

I always mention this in my hypnobirthing classes! There is such a deep and beautiful conmection between the throat and ...
21/06/2022

I always mention this in my hypnobirthing classes!
There is such a deep and beautiful conmection between the throat and the pelvic floor- allow them to be open in a way that feels most natural to YOU ❤️

I think it's time for these births to receive some admiration too 💪

While we mostly focus on & admire all the "calm & gentle" births, I feel like it also sets the stage for your more aggressive & intense births to be disregarded or even frowned upon; it's like we're all silently saying "if you don't have a calm, gentle birth, then you didn't do it right."

Women work so hard at all of these breathing & relaxation techniques with hypnobirthing, meditation & endless practices on how to have a 'calm birth' but it can also lead a woman down a road of potential disappointment & subtle feelings of failure or weakness if this was not achieved. We NEED to embrace & acknowledge the beauty & power of aggressive births too so that women can feel confident going into the birth room regardless of the type of birth she has - whether she breathes her baby out or screams.

I love telling ladies to "be aggressive" during labour, especially towards the end of transitional phase & more so if that phase is taking long & she is beginning to feel exhausted, defeated or losing a bit of hope. Almost always, I find that once a woman releases tension through acts of aggression (growling, shouting, screaming & even swearing; whatever suits her, individually), there is a sudden shift in progression of the last stretch of labour which enables her to birth her baby more easily.

Not remaining calm does not make you a failure.
Being loud & frustrated does not make you weak.
Shouting at your baby to "GET OUT!!!" does not make you a horrible mother.
Growling, screaming or shouting instead of gently breathing does not make your birth any less beautiful!

Vocalization is IMPORTANT for the release of endorphins & more often than not, acts of aggression can be a more effective mode of tension release for some women than what we've been told otherwise with relaxation methods.

You CAN be aggressive & it should be more encouraged & invited in the birth room. As long as you're not hurting anyone, aggression can be a very useful tool for coping too.

Were you aggressive?

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To find out more about my Gauteng doula services or products, you can visit my website here:
www.yourdoula.co.za

Or follow me on Instagram where I post a lot more content on a wide range of topics:
www.instagram.com/yourdoulanatalie

Thank you My Birthing Kit - Tools for Mindful Birthing ❤️❤️❤️
20/06/2022

Thank you My Birthing Kit - Tools for Mindful Birthing ❤️❤️❤️

Meeting our practitioners!

Introducing Jade Viljoen 🥰 Jade Viljoen Sacred Soul Birth Services

“I am a Full Spectrum Doula and Childbirth Educator residing in Jeffrey’s Bay in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

I have had a varied range of experiences in my own birthing having had an elective Caesarean at 19 years old - followed by a healing Vaginal Birth after Caesarean and then Home birth after Caesarean.

I was completely uninformed with my first born, thus my choice to have an elective caesarean. I was separated from my son for 6 hours after birth and was told I had the wrong ni***es for breastfeeding by nurses attending to me post birth; I simply believed them. I developed postpartum depression and struggled through motherhood and later lost my son in a tragic accident as a toddler.

When I fell pregnant with my second born, I knew how critical every decision I made was in the bigger picture. I immediately scoured the internet to find out if vaginal birth after caesarean was possible and found out that I would benefit from hiring a doula.

In my search for a doula I came across a local organisation running bereavement doula training and my heart swelled with a knowing - it was my purpose to support other parents through child loss. I was also lucky to find my own birth doula at the training and walked away a very pregnant bereavement doula.

The beginning of my VBAC journey was frustrating, I was told I would die if I attempted a VBAC but that only made me more determined. I went on to birth with a midwife, my doula and my husband at a birthing centre. I had a beautiful birth and I was fuelled with passion to help other women experience a healing birth, too. Within a few months I was a certified birth doula and pregnant again!

This time I knew that I wanted to birth at home and attended the My Birthing Kit practitioner training during my pregnancy. It was wonderful that the training coincided with covid lockdowns and my own pregnancy; as I could truly feel the benefit this level of childbirth education provides in such a vulnerable time. I birthed my daughter at home and she was born in her caul, I finally managed to exclusively breastfeed and had what many called a “unicorn baby” - she just didn’t cry! She was the epitome of the “calm” I focused on so much in my own childbirth preparation.

I love supporting women as they come into the awe-some realisation that their body is fully capable of birthing. I adore listening to birth stories, birth hopes and desires - and I really, really love helping families navigate a system that is somewhat flawed.

It is my hope to support as many families as I can, so that they may have the same privilege I have had to have an informed, positive birth”

A little girl was born And the first words she ever heard were the words she asked to hear first “I love you I love you ...
14/06/2022

A little girl was born

And the first words she ever heard
were the words she asked to hear first

“I love you
I love you so much“

Words uttered through tears of joy, emotions gushing out of a heart newly burst

Burst open by an experience of pure divinity
Granted to me by some Wise Creator

How could one describe the power of creation as it moves through you?

How could I make it believable that one could feel a tide swell and choose to ride each and every single wave- even when it feels like they could knock the breath out of you?

Could I ever make it tangible, the sensation of the sheer force of Apana energy as it drives downward, as a baby comes spiralling out of you?

And somehow lands as delicately as a feather on a pond of water, into your arms?

Sometimes birth requires a lot of intense hard work on both the part of mom and baby. This sweet girl was shocked by own...
12/05/2022

Sometimes birth requires a lot of intense hard work on both the part of mom and baby.

This sweet girl was shocked by own her quick entrance into the world.
It was an intense fast birth and she weighed - 4,54kgs!

📸 and by
・・・

It’s so much easier to listen when I am silent ☀️✨
11/05/2022

It’s so much easier to listen when I am silent ☀️✨

A testimonial from a client who started her yoga journey referring to herself as obese.As weeks have rolled by I've noti...
28/02/2022

A testimonial from a client who started her yoga journey referring to herself as obese.

As weeks have rolled by I've noticed less and less negative body talk. I've noticed her fully dropping into self awareness. I've noticed her breathing deeper. I've seen her gently and softly smile to herself while guiding her through an inner child meditation.

It's beautiful to me, how the practice of yoga can transform lives.

It's not about being flexible in the body or looking good. It's about being flexible in the mind and about feeling good. It's about transcending the "I" that often pollutes potential moments of peace.

Being able to guide others through this practice means the world to me. It's such an honour ❤️

If you would like to learn more about beginning your yoga practice, please feel more than welcome to be in contact with me via DM 🙏

Hari Om Tat Sat 🕉️

Finally on my way to yesI bump intoall the placeswhere I said noto my lifeall the untended woundsthe red and purple scar...
22/02/2022

Finally on my way to yes
I bump into
all the places
where I said no
to my life

all the untended wounds
the red and purple scars
those hieroglyphs of pain
carved into my skin, my bones
those coded messages
that send me down
the wrong street
again and again
where I find them

the old wounds
the old misdirections

and I lift them
one by one
close to my heart
and I say holy
holy.

~ Pesha Gertler, from “The Healing Time”

This is so true!
18/02/2022

This is so true!

I'm often asked "what will we learn in your course?And I want to start with what you WON'T learn.You won't learn to subm...
09/02/2022

I'm often asked "what will we learn in your course?

And I want to start with what you WON'T learn.

You won't learn to submit to a system that disregards tha Physiology of Birth.

You won't learn to" take things as they come"

You won't learn to accept interventions without knowing the WHY and the HOW.

You won't learn to disregard your own birth wishes for the comfort of another.

You will learn to reclaim your sovereignty, to reclaim birth as a miraculous Rite of Passage. To stand in your power for the sake of both your baby and yourself.

My next course starts this Saturday 12 February at 8am.

Send me a Direct Message if you have any questions or follow the link in my bio to learn more.

Continued from previous postI remember sitting in those Antenatal classes and finding myself correcting everything being...
09/02/2022

Continued from previous post

I remember sitting in those Antenatal classes and finding myself correcting everything being said, in my head. I was shocked that people were paying money for classes that were only telling half a story.

I recall we had been given a notebook for the classes and that my notebook was empty after those two days. Part of me felt arrogant and part of me felt annoyed that people were being told half a story about the miraculous nature of birth.

On the second day, when I mentioned that I wouldn't be birthing at the hospital but that I was planning a Water Vaginal Birth after Caeserean at a birth centre - heads spun around. "Aren't you scared?" "what if something goes wrong?"

I just didn't feel that way, even after a gynae laughed in my face when I told him my wishes and said to my husband, "you don't want your wife to die, do you?"

I trusted my body, I trusted the process of birthing. In fact, what I was most afraid of was being a Mom to a newborn again and knowing that my grief journey was going to take a whole new route. I was less concerned about birthing as I was about being a good mom to my newborn. I was more concerned about how I would react to my newborn when my heart was still so deeply aching for my late son.

This came up during my labour and I had to do a lot of mental work before I could surrender fully. I realize this was why I had a very intense 24 hour prodormal labour - there were so many unconscious fears I had around parenting that kept me holding on to still being pregnant.

This is why I absolutely adored attending the very same Antenatal Classes that I now teach, while pregnant in the height of the c-vid pandemic.

Just knowing what is taking place physically is a beautiful way to surrender to the process of birthing - but what really holds us back is the subconscious mind. All the stories we heard about birthing either through our own parents' experience and especially through the media.

This is why Antenatal education that includes rewiring our deep set beliefs is imperative to having a positive birth experience. We have to look deeper to find what our intuition already knows.

Link in Bio for more information❤

Mindful Childbirth PreparationWhen carrying a new life and getting ready for birthing, being prepared is imperative.Sadl...
04/02/2022

Mindful Childbirth Preparation

When carrying a new life and getting ready for birthing, being prepared is imperative.

Sadly due to the medicalization of birth, many families have been left disappointed and sometimes traumatized by the level of care that they received during their pregnancy and/or birth.

Having worked in this field and having experienced three different types of birth, I myself, have felt the very real benefit of having attended Childbirth Preparation Classes based on Hypnobirthing philosophy.

Fear and anxiety are common in both first time Moms and Moms who have previously birthed.

In such a special and vulnerable time, families should be able to embrace and enjoy the journey, relaxing and surrendering to the miracle that is pregnancy and birth. Yet Moms find themselves, suddenly, in a new world entirely!

Well-meaning advice from family can add to the already long lists of questions and moms find themselves overwhelmed.

This is where the My Birthing Kit Syllabus comes in. Along with an in-depth ebook written by Creator and Founder of MBK- Kim Young, printable affirmations and pre-recorded relaxations; the syllabus covers everything (and more) that an expecting family needs to know. Geared toward both the birthing mother and her partner, these classes leave families feeling confident and excited for their birthing.

Classes are held weekly for 4 weeks, online via Skype.

Group Classes are R1800 (including your downloadable materials) for both mother and her birthing partner.

Payment plans available on request. 💐

Do you want to have a positive, informed birth? 🔜Something I emphasize in my  Mindful Childbirth Preparation Course is h...
31/01/2022

Do you want to have a positive, informed birth? 🔜

Something I emphasize in my Mindful Childbirth Preparation Course is how fear and anxiety not only affect our pregnancy journey but the physiology of labour too!

I've seen countless birthing couples begin these classes fearful, unsure of what the best course of action is to prepare for their ideal birth and quite frankly disempowered in a time that they should feel the MOST powerful!

Childbirth Education is proven to improve birthing outcomes, especially when the partner of the birthing person is also fully informed and aware of how the role they play can affect their partner's experience.

4 Weekly Classes- one month to explore, learn and reprogram your mind from fear to confidence. To understand who is the best person to care for you during this time, to feel into what we really want for our birthing and to release limiting beliefs that tell us stories about why we "can't."

My passion is in birthing but there's something quite amazing about empowering women to remember WHO they are without the fear of what is to come.

Link in my bio via my Linktree (which will be updated with some beautiful new offerings for women in all seasons of their life soon!)

Share this post with someone you know that is expecting, check out my website to learn more about what it is that I do and know that NONE of my services will ever be inaccessible. If what I do calls to you, know that I will always do my best to accommodate your situation.

Now is the time to reclaim our sovereignty - sometimes it starts where life does ❤️

20/01/2022
*Online Pregnancy Yoga*As a Birth Worker and a Mommy that has given birth 3 times, I have seen and felt the positive ben...
05/01/2022

*Online Pregnancy Yoga*

As a Birth Worker and a Mommy that has given birth 3 times, I have seen and felt the positive benefits of practicing Yoga.

💭What are the benefits of prenatal yoga?💭

Much like other types of childbirth-preparation classes, prenatal yoga is a multifaceted approach to exercise that encourages stretching, mental centering and focused breathing.

Research suggests that prenatal yoga is safe and can have many benefits for pregnant women and their babies.

Prenatal yoga can:

💜Improve sleep
❤️Reduce stress and anxiety
💙Increase the strength, flexibility and endurance of muscles needed for childbirth
💖Decrease lower back pain, nausea, headaches and shortness of breath

All Levels are welcome, I meet you where you're (m)at! 😉

Interested? Pop me a message and let's chat!! ❤️

Today is 7 years since my Sun went to the water and marks the beginning of the 10 days of his transition from Earth to H...
04/01/2022

Today is 7 years since my Sun went to the water and marks the beginning of the 10 days of his transition from Earth to Heaven.

A few nights ago Malakai asked to sleep in his own room and and I lay down with him so he could fall asleep. Jasmine was sleeping in our room.

Malakai was super sleepy and said "someone... someone is missing" and we asked him l, "Who?" and he said "Sissy!!" We told him that she's okay and that she was sleeping in our room and he felt better. He laid there in between us and I watched his eyes flutter into sleep.

Then it hit me, like ton of bricks. That's how it feels, everyday. Someone's missing.

To feel someone with you all the time but not to feel their warmth.

Someone's missing.

There's a little boy angel boy with blue eyes who likes to cause technical problems on my devices. Yes, he does that.

He is happy, where he is in Heaven, he told me. He eats ice cream EVERY DAY and his Great Grandad never says no to more!

He said that his Mom and Dad have pictures of him and he likes them. He said his Dad has his name written on him and it makes him smile. Our tattoos of him are like a letter written in skin "I can't ever forget you"

He races around leaving a trail of stardust and laughter, carving out raceways in the Heavens. He said that when he left it was easy for him.

He said he just went to sleep. He didn't feel any pain. I always wondered what it felt like, for him. He just fell asleep. He just fluttered away from here. From me, from us.

The warmth of his body now replaced by a warm breeze, a tug on my dress from one of his siblings..

That's how it feels when you lose your child, like something is missing from you. A chronic longing even through the acceptance of it all.

I am always missing, you Kaeden. Today we will go get ice cream for your brother and sister and you will show us something to remind us how true it is, when we say that you are alwaaaays with us.

Please forgive me as I shed tears for you. As I hang out in the love I cannot physically give to you. As I thank God for giving you to me, even though you went back earlier than I could have know.

I love you, forever.

If there is anything I witnessed this year as a birthworker, is that women birth beautifully when they have been thoroug...
27/12/2021

If there is anything I witnessed this year as a birthworker, is that women birth beautifully when they have been thoroughly educated in their beautiful and sacred physiology.

They birth beautifully because there is no room for fear when we are in awe of the sacred dance of our hormones and anticipate, instead of fear, the beauty of a time suspended between heaven and Earth.

They birth in a manner that brings peace to their hearts and to their minds. They understand the duality of the transition from Mother to Maiden and they are prepared. First, by knowing what we all go through in those first few days. They prepare their loved ones by holding fast to their worthiness to bw fully held and to relax into Motherhood.

They do not feel imprisoned by this experience but inflated in love and awareness of their own sacred nature.

They feel God present in every moment, in every tear shed, in every drop of blood spilling from the Sacred Portal that manifested as a flower blooming, coursing with electricity.

I've spent so much time, this year- watching women bloom. Maiden to Mother. I've watched women take the birth they want, just with a tiny nudge as God works through me.

I've stepped out of my role as a teacher and asked women to question if they are making decisions from a place of fear and seen how so many of us already know that we can do whatever we truly want in this life. So many of us feel the need to seek permission and yet, birth doesn't work that way.

Birth comes when it wants, birth takes it's time- like a rosebud or it comes hot and heavy like a lightning storm being pulled from the edge of the Earth- by the force of Air.

I am in awe of women. I am in awe of the shift taking place in the world of birth. I am in awe as I see, feel and hear Mother Earth rejoice each time a baby is born gently.

I am so grateful to every mother who trusts me to guide, hold space, to lay hands on them in such sacred moments. I am so grateful to be a channel from the Divine, enabling me to step into my power ❤️

An art collaboration between myself and my beautiful husband and my favourite birth companion ❤️

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At the tender age of 18 years old I fell pregnant with my late son, Kaeden. Being young and having very little support, I opted for an elective caesarean with little expectations for his birth as the idea of being a young, single Mom, alone, was frightening and consuming all my energy.

When Kaeden was born, I felt overwhelmed, out of the loop and highly offended by common chit chat about coffee and traffic by the surgical staff as my son came into the world. I gave birth to him at 7:20am and met him for the first time at 5pm that afternoon. I was left alone, scared and confused. I was told I had the incorrect ni***es for breastfeeding and never had the chance (or the knowledge) to breastfeed him.

On the 14th of January 2015 Kaeden passed away after 10 days in Paediatric ICU due to a near drowning accident. This tragic event changed my life and shook me to awaken to the reality of how sacred life is. I began my very own path to spirituality, redefining everything I knew of myself, about my life and what I had experienced and created and vowed to live each day in gratitude for each breath I take. When I fell pregnant with my second child, a lovely little boy who we named Malakai- I felt a tremedous amount of discomfort knowing he would be brought into the world in a way that seemed, to me, to be cold and not respecting of his soul’s journey.

I did my research and found myself with a gynae who told me I would die if I tried to give natural birth, however, I had already educated myself on the statistics and decided that I would prefer to have a midwife led-birth in a birthing centre with a Doula I had met while training as a Bereavement Doula.

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