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Guest: Essential Care for the New Mother

  Well, October, it's amazing you're here already. These warmer days hold the promise of Kambarang and are starting to smell like summer and we are here for it! I'm so pleased to have kept this special guest blog project going, with…
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Welcoming Emily

  If you haven't met Rachel and her family, where have you beeeeen?! We've followed their pregnancy and birth and now, in the final instalment of this story, a family and bath session to welcome Emily. If you need to catch up, I've…

Birthing Emily

It's such an honour and a privilege to be friends with amazing women like Rachel, be invited to capture her homebirth, and then, when you ask if you can capture the whole pregnancy and story, be granted full access and permissions. What. A.…
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Blessing Rachel

A Blessingway is a beautiful traditional Native American ceremony conducted at the end of a woman's pregnancy to pass on wisdom and prepare her for birth. Mother or Birth Blessings are mother-centred baby shower events inspired by this idea.…

Homebirth midwifery - what does a homebirth prenatal appointment look like?

I have two bebes, now 4 and 7 years old, and I had two homebirths, both very different from each other. During my first pregnancy, I did not get any maternity photos, and the thought of birth photos made me laugh out loud hysterically. As.…