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Beautiful Mumma 🧡 Your love and commitment to w Beautiful Mumma 🧡 Your love and commitment to welcoming your baby in the most natural of ways will always be honoured. #welcome #babyboy #birthday #melbournedoula #melbournebirthphotographer #newborn #motherslove
There’s no moment like this moment in the world. There’s no moment like this moment in the world. To finally have your love in your arms, against your chest. During the cesarean this Mumma was found to have Bandl’s Ring. A very rare condition where the upper segment of the uterus is thickened, the lower segment is thinned and there is constriction between the two. The muscles create a band and the baby becomes trapped. You never personally expect to be one of those rare cases when they tell you statistics, but I guess someone has to be. #birth #babyboy #skintoskin #ceseareanbirth #bandlsring #melbournedoula
Wiping her tear stained cheeks, waiting for the fi Wiping her tear stained cheeks, waiting for the first cry, for this new being to enter their arms ✨ #tearstainedcheeks #waitingforbaby #cesareanbirthisbirth #cesareanbirth #melbournedoula
Sometimes despite all the choices, planning, prepa Sometimes despite all the choices, planning, preparation, hoping, focusing, educating, surrendering, decisions and intentional dreaming, something bigger than us overrules our efforts. All we can do is trust the necessity of the path we are forced down and surrender with love. This mumma is one of the bravest and strongest I know and I was so blessed to be able to join her in theatre to welcome her little one. #otherplans #lettinggo #theatrebirth #melbournebirthphotographer #melbournedoula
One of many changes I’d love to see in maternity One of many changes I’d love to see in maternity hospitals is birth suits located on the ground level. Women instinctively ‘go to ground’ to be anchored in their internal journey and I don’t think that being on the 3rd - 5th floor of a multi story building is very grounding on an energetic level. The warmth of water on your back here I’m sure is bliss.... #grounded #showertime #labour #melbournedoula #doulamelbourne
Making peace. Trying to reconcile your heart and i Making peace. Trying to reconcile your heart and it’s yearning for one path when your body seems to be choosing another. Holding hope but feeling it slip away... this is often a time at birth where silent holding is most potent, often there are no words. #acceptance #lettinggo #holdingspace #birthphotography #melbournedoula #birthsupport
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