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25.01.2022 #ithank all the beautiful, strong, resilient midwives supporting women and babies during the #coronavirus pandemic. Help us support midwives to offer care for women at home by donating to the #CrisisResponseforBirth crowdfunding campaign. (link in bio or below..) https://hub.benojo.com//crisis-response-for-birth-during-c #Midwives2020 #IDM2020 #birthincrisis #COVID19 #StayHome #ithank #hygieiahealthltd

25.01.2022 Love this!! So many of us only find our boundaries in motherhood.

25.01.2022 May you be treated like a goddess in pregnancy, labour and life. #Repost @doulapassion.de with @get_repost #schwanger2020#tuebingen#doula#blessingway#schwangerintübingen

24.01.2022 Who’s for a pub birth? If you want to have support in labour and birth, you’d best go into labour down the local boozer. Australia, getting its priorities yet again. #birthmatters #covid_19 #straya #humanrightsinchildbirth #twopintsandababycheersmate #homebirth

24.01.2022 This is so brave, so heartbreaking- and so unnecessary. The cascade of policy-driven (not individual care-driven) interventions must cease. Let women birth with respect, and in their own time. #birthmatters #Iamthe1in3 #birthtrauma

23.01.2022 Hospitals are not safe places for pregnant women and babies right now. We need urgent action to provide care for our birthing women. Please click through to read our call to action and add your voice to protect mothers and babies NOW. Link in bio. https://www.change.org/p/crisis-response-for-birth-get-wome ... #crisisresponseforbirth #protectingthemamatotos #covid19 #Coronavirus #stayhome #stayhomeandbirth #pregnancy #birth #humanrightsinchildbirth See more

23.01.2022 Such beautiful words. I too wish this for all birthing mamas. May you be held and nourished at all stages of your journey to and through motherhood. Posted @withregram @zoe.roxonhunter My wish for all birthing women is that they feel this peace, joy and safety after they bring their baby into the world. In the week since I watched @birthtimeworld I have felt so inspired and moved by the stories shared by the women in the documentary, and so aware that how we birth and how we feel and what we experience during our births never leave us. I felt this way during and after my second birth, and my wish is that all women feel this way. This will truly change the world. #birthtimedoco #birthaffirmationsaustralia #normallabourandbirth #humanrightsinchildbirth

21.01.2022 Do you remember this feeling? Im betting the majority of new mums felt that jolt of fear, an overwhelming lack of support as they took those tentative steps into new motherhood. I know I did. You? We can do better than this for mothers, mothers-to-be, and the new generations theyre nurturing. #motherlode #dontfuckitup #Repost @helenetheillustrator with @get_repost... I know youve had no experience whatsoever and you have absolutely no idea what youre doing but youll be fiiiine. By the way the hours are 24/7, oh and theres no pay..and you start now, dont fuck it up. . . . #newborns #mumlife #mum #babies #fourthtrimester #newjob #newmum #honestmotherhood #birth #honestparenting #newparents #illustrator #illustration See more

20.01.2022 Strong truth. #motherlode #birthisnormal #birthmatters

19.01.2022 Absolutely! #Repost @thewarriorwithinbirthservices with @get_repost

18.01.2022 This image is the way we want women to feel about birthing - whatever the circumstances of your birth, we want you to feel the strength, majesty and power of your motherhood journey. Lets hear you roar! #Repost @astrid.serpentine with @get_repost GIVEAWAY!!! I have this amazing print of a painting by Pam England that Id like to giveaway to a lucky woman. Its a perfect addition to a birth altar or birth space or maybe even something you can take to your birth at hospi...tal to remind you of your primal power. Its about A3 size. Its been with me for almost 10 years and has the energy of all my births and the births of 100s of women who have come to my classes and workshops at my home. . If you would like to be in the running to win this you need to do the following:. -LIKE THIS ACCOUNT on INSTAGRAM @astrid.serpentine -TAG 3 WOMEN WHO WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THIS. FOR THOSE WOMEN TO BE IN THE RUNNING THEY HAVE TO LIKE this account AND TAG 3 women too. . -IF YOU WANT EXTRA POINTS, share this in your stories or feed, tagging me in!! . Results shall be drawn by Sunday 2nd MAY Australian EST 8pm Im running a Prenatal Workshop at @modern_organic this SATURDAY 1st JUNE. BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL. JOIN US!! . #prenatalyoga #primal #birth #pamengland #birthpreparation #yoga #giveaway

17.01.2022 Whos for a pub birth? If you want to have support in labour and birth, youd best go into labour down the local boozer. Australia, getting its priorities yet again. #birthmatters #covid_19 #straya #humanrightsinchildbirth #twopintsandababycheersmate #homebirth

17.01.2022 Every time I’m writing something for #Motherlode and start to think but maybe this is common knowledge..? I find something like this, and remind myself that education around pregnancy and birth in our culture is ABSOLUTELY WOEFUL. Even, I’m sorry to say, antenatal classes, which often miss out on critical information in favour of discussing pain management ad nauseam. So...onwards and upwards...and thank you, anonymous Redditor, for giving me the motivation I needed to...day. #writersblock #pregnancy #birth #idiotsofreddit #redditmemes #howdoyouremembertobreathe

17.01.2022 The fifth week of school summer holidays, brought to you by the letter AAAAAAAA and the number 1 (litre of oat milk latte, drunk straight from the carton). #parenthood #sixweeksofsummer #mamalife #sesamestreet #creature #schoolsoutforsummer #thankyoudaylightsavings

15.01.2022 ** URGENT ** Calling all pregnant women! Help us understand what support pregnant women need during the COVID-19 crisis in Australia - this short survey should take no more than 4 minutes to complete...... [https://forms.gle/ZbrpCmuy8TLNWhJs8](https://forms.gle/ZbrpCmuy8TLNWhJs8) #COVID_19Aus #mamatotocrisis #coronavirus #pregnantmamas

15.01.2022 Love this! Perfection is a myth. Brava @bravenewmama Motherhood is a practice. Not a quest to attain impossible perfection. Are you doing the best you can, with what you have, with who you are, in this particular moment in time? Yes? That is enough. No? That is enough. This is a practice, you guys. We grow as we go. || Words from #bravenewmama (page 74) ||#perfectdoesntlivehereanymore #recoveringperfectionist

14.01.2022 This makes *a lot* of sense. Although getting better educated about birth (Rhea Dempsey Birthing Wisdom's outstanding book Birth With Confidence is a strong start, written in a very accessible and relatable way) is also vital if we want to start to reverse the awful outcomes birthing women are experiencing in our current system. #birthmatters

12.01.2022 This beautiful human is live streaming her homebirth. So that we can see what birth can be: held, honoured and without fear. Thank you @emmaisaacs. Feeling the oxytocin from here. #bethechange #mamatotos #birthisbeautiful #shamanicwomancraft

08.01.2022 And yet we expect mums to do this work with little to no support (financial, social, cultural...) - no wonder the percentage infants being breastfed beyond 4 months of age drops to about 15% in Australia*. Because happy, healthy mothers need support - and sadly many just dont get enough. #Repost @thelittlemilkbar_ ... To all the late nights. To all the cluster feedings. To all the early mornings. To all the sleepless nights. To all the tears. To all the feelings of isolation. Breastfeeding is HARD.... and a full time job all on its own . * The 2010 Australian National Infant Feeding Survey -AIHW

08.01.2022 The struggle is real. And the answer is connection. Real life or virtual, we need our village.

07.01.2022 The incredible Jane Hardwicke Collings on dealing with fears arising in pregnancy, labour and birth. #birthhacks #feelthefear #birthwork

05.01.2022 Love the artists summary of what changed before and after birth for the women she photographed: Different gaze, completely different energy, maturity. #becomingmother #motherlode

05.01.2022 I just wrote a long and heartfelt post about the fridamom ad that the Oscars rejected for its graphic content. I wrote that I was sad but not surprised that the ad hadnt been screened, because we avert our eyes from the silent suffering and isolation of so many new mothers in our communities. I wrote that however amazing Fridamom products are, they cant give mums the support they need - emotional, physical, economic - and that we should use this as a reminder to reach ou...t to a mum who might need a hand this week. I waxed lyrical. Youll never see that post, because Facebook banned it. Theres no graphic content in that ad: it is raw and real, but perfectly safe for work. And now Im pretty angry, because Ive seen some horrible things on this platform be permitted by the same guidelines that say we cant see images of women breastfeeding, or after birth. That ad is not offensive, Facebook, but your policy is. #fridamom #bannedbodies #facebookcensorship #pagingmrzuckerberg #postpartumbodies

05.01.2022 Its sad, but not entirely surprising that this ad was rejected - were very good at looking away from our new mothers rather than seeing them, and offering the help they need. Of course, while fridamom products might be amazing, theyre still not going to help combat the isolation and lack of preparedness so many new mums feel. Watching the ad brought tears to my eyes - not just wincing at the post-partum pain, but at the loneliness and silent struggle it depicts so powerfu...lly. I see you, mama. Lets take this as a reminder to reach out and give our support to a mother who needs it this week. And bravo @fridamom - thanks for putting these usually invisible moments on the international media stage. #fridamom #thestruggleisreal #postpartum #newborn #newmums #bethevillage