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The Story of Luna’s Birth
This is the story of the birth of our beautiful daughter, Luna. The options I made and preferences I had were personal and individual, and in no way a judgement of anyone else’s who’s made different choices and had different preferences for their own birth(s). Birth is personal and very much a space for your own intentions and intuition. The blog post below includes pictures with nudity. The night before I knew I was definitely in labour, I wondered if it all might be starting. I had a feeling it might. I was 40+5 weeks pregnant (according to my dates, further along according to the NHS’s) and, throughout my…
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Guest blog – Supporting a new mum with a history of mental illness during the coronavirus pandemic
The blog post below is written by Roz Littwin. I had the pleasure and honour of supporting Roz and Zak during the pregnancy, birth and postpartum of their beautiful baby. This was during the coronavirus pandemic, in 2021, a trying time for us all but especially for expectant and birthing parents. Afterwards, Roz kindly offered to write a testimonial about the support I’d offered her and Zak. I was very excited and grateful to hear that – when Roz started writing her testimonial – it organically grew into a guest blog post that I was of course more than happy to share! The story and account below are Roz’s, in…