Because when we are held, that is when we most become

In it all, in motherhood and in birthing and postpartum, we are supposed be held. It is the most sacred of seasons, this becoming, and yet it is so very often forgotten. We need a remembering, a remembering of what it is to hold mothers as they need to be held, and how necessary it all is. How very human, it all is.

I believe deeply, and strongly in the power of being held and heard during the birth continuum. A time of metamorphosis, transformation, and surrender.

I have seen and felt the power of birth. The kind of power that can exist in homes, in birth centres, in hospitals, in operating theatres.

I’ve witnessed the sanctity of postpartum, the raw beauty and the brutality that sit side by side as you traverse the liminal space of transforming into the mother that you need to be.

You are the expert of your body and your birth, your baby and your becoming, and I am here to support, and not assert, as you lean into your intuition and make those decisions.

Pregnancy is an unravelling, birth is the journey you take to collect your baby from the stars, and postpartum is a time of softness and rawness as you come slowly back to earth, irrevocably changed and infinitely stronger.

Supporting women and mothers as they do so is the most sacred of work, and I’m so happy to be here.