We were supposed to travel to Michigan for the holidays. Instead, we are moving to Palm Desert, so this Christmas will be surrounded with boxes and big feelings, and we will, hopefully, be moving into our first home on New Year’s Day, which also happens to be Ian’s fifth birthday. I hadn’t been feeling the […]Read Post ›
A doula as photographer. A promised midwife as doula. A promised midwife as new mother (for the fifth time). A mother midwife who guides us all. We were on a tropical island as mama made her own waves, listening to ocean sounds from an iphone with a ceiling fan as the breeze. The birth was […]Read Post ›
An honor to attend my fifteenth birth and my third home birth. I’ve never seen Kristi’s husband and daughter so happy, and Kristi was her usual sweet, sweet self. PS: This babe lifted his head, latched by himself, and found his fingers in the first hour of life. And had the longest cord I’ve ever […]Read Post ›
Baby awoke mama with first contractions just before dawn and was earthside for dinner. This little family was a beautiful team and I, as usual, was astonished and humbled by their love.
I don’t even know what to say. My midwife opened The Community Birth Center which is encircled by a magical group of women healers who show up and do what needs to be done and poof! Babies are being born and green beans are being harvested from the garden and Ina May and Pamela Hunt […]Read Post ›
I’ve been posting my old Facebook status updates for the past few days. December 28: Retail therapy. Cute pink nursing bra and soft cotton loungy pjs in 3 different colors. Bring on the baby! December 29: Weekly check-in with midwife, grocery shopping, blog post stockpiling and man, this rain makes me want to bake something… […]Read Post ›
Mama Mandy 