After a calm pregnancy with little discomfort, I lived the last few days with a bit of nerves. The due date had already passed and the obstetrician wanted to schedule an induction for us. I asked her to delay it as long as possible and she suggested waiting until the day I reached 42 weeks,…
Choosing love instead of fear is what led us to the Equip Mudra. A turn towards trust, full surrender and light in my second pregnancy. From the very first moment it felt like a wonderful chance to experience this process again, this time well supported, allowing us to relive and relearn, to understand and place…
At week 36 I connected with the wish for our second daughter to be born at home. In truth I’d been preparing for this idea for months, but not consciously. Over the summer I’d done a family constellations workshop, to put past matters relating to birth in their place, and I’d also worked through unresolved…
(The birth of our daughter Ona Lua) On 24 January 2016 I woke up very active. Before we got up, we made love wildly —as much as was possible with the giant belly I had—, we had a good breakfast, went to fetch firewood from the woods, and went for lunch with my in-laws because…
A story of birth, Roger and Anna… Around 4 in the morning came the signs telling me that the big moment wouldn’t keep us waiting many more days; I remember thinking: “sleep, you have to save your energy” (my previous birth was very much on my mind, with four days of painful pre-labour contractions and…
It’s Tuesday, 28 February, and I’m 41+5. I wake up very disheartened, it seems I’ll never give birth. I take Pol (3.5 years old) to school. When I get home I write a post in the Dona Llum group to hear positive birth experiences from 41+5 onwards. From the hospital where they did my monitoring…