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Why do women compare their needs to everyone elses and go, ‘well I’m just going to tough it out.’ …Don’t wait until life implodes. If you are struggling now when things are relatively normal, what tank are you going to draw from when things get hard? [...]  We have just returned home from an amazing trip to the Whitsunday Islands and Great Barrier Reef! Travel is always a great teacher but this time it seemed particularly so. I’ve been pondering so much lately but one o the biggest things I’ve been pondering is my seeming inability to shift the extra 20 kgs I’ve gained these past couple of years and how certain foods make me feel so ill. [...] In an effort to simplify my life and provide the best services possible, I have split the Mumma Nurture Service into four different packages, effective immediately. We also have a beautiful new package available just for [...] Women put themselves last in the birthroom. They can be made to feel like they are the poor cousins visiting the luxury mansion of distant relatives. The message is loud and clear: “This is our turf. Don’t even think about running a bath without our say so, but you are more than welcome to partake of our smorgasbord of interventions that may or may not be evidence-based.” Most midwives seem to spend the vast majority of their time doing paperwork and don’t even try to connect with the birthing woman. Some may think this sounds harsh but when you understand what makes it easy for a woman to birth, it seems like nothing short of [...] One of the reasons I started Mumatopia as a social enterprise was because I can see the wisdom behind the saying “gentle birth heals mother earth” (coined by humanitarian and midwife Robin Lim from Gentle Birth Bali). My birth experiences and my experience of losing a much wanted baby and nearly losing my life in the process, have taught me how gentle beginnings can nurture a mother’s love for her baby, can create a sense of empathy and patience and a strong sense of [...] Well, it has been a tough week of deliberating but we have finally chosen a winner! I have to say this has been one of the toughest competitions I have run. How do you choose who is more deserving of a week of nurturing? The truth is, we all deserve it! So, in the end we chose based on the best written entry, which in our opinion was this one by mum of six, Rachel [...] We are delighted to be partnering with Chef Leith James from Hospitality1 to offer mums home-delivered, nutritious family meals. I am still cooking for clients as part of postnatal and mumma nurture packages. However, an increasing number of clients have been asking for food to be prepared and delivered rather than prepared on-site. [...] Today I am celebrating Mumatopia’s first birthday by offering up a week of pampering and nurturing to a lucky mum via a blog [...] Moving your body in labour is also part of the process of moving into and accepting the labour journey. It’s an amazing transition, that moment where a woman walks up and down stairs in early labour and notices that the activity makes the contractions longer and more intense. She may resist doing this knowing what it brings, but then I gently remind her that the longer the contraction, the more effectively it is working to open her up to give birth to her baby. She has a moment where she realises that she has to move through and into the intensity in order to meet her baby. Avoiding that intensity or distracting oneself from it, can make labour longer and [...] Yesterday I invited a lovely 19 year old girl into my home to give me a hand with the kids as I’m pretty snowed under. We don’t use regular daycare so it really helps to have someone available from time to time and when I have a client to attend to. Below is a guest blog post by a fellow WAHM, Kate Christie who runs Babysitters & More that I thought would be useful for [...] |
   
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