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"Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation. Where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body a miracle of wisdom."

~ Harriette Hartigan

Over the years, I have shared in a rather raw form about my postpartum journeys, often with the hashtags of #takebackpostpartum or #honestpostpartum. Here below I offer a smattering of those posts about my 3rd postpartum time collected in one blog post, to paint a portrait of the multifaceted adjustments that a mamababy dyad goes […]

Honest Glimpses of Postpartum: Walter Edition

January 17, 2024

Old IG posts chronicaling some of my postpartum journey with my fourth baby, a winter baby.

Honest Glimpses of a Postpartum: Maeve edition

January 14, 2024

Over the years, I have shared in a rather raw form about my postpartum journeys, often with the hashtags of #takebackpostpartum or #honestpostpartum. Here below I offer a smattering of those posts collected in one blog post, to paint a portrait of the multifaceted adjustments that a mamababy dyad goes through in the first days […]

Honest glimpses of postpartum, Agatha edition

January 11, 2024

a diary-style glimpse of my first 3 weeks postpartum with my 6th baby, which was an intentionally planned and supported lying-in period

Honest Glimpses of a Postpartum: Gilbert edition

January 11, 2024

nighttime, outdoor freebirth wild pregnancy in Michigan with birthkeeper Brooke Collier

freebirth story :: lissa

October 20, 2023

the home water birth story of Gilbert Ignatius, in photos.

my births: gilbert ignatius (photos)

August 1, 2023

Dear mama-to-be, Take inventory of all that you are, that which you care about, andthe ways that you move through the world. These are parts of who you are,The way you have been divinely created.And it is good And soon, as you labor to bring your baby out into the light (And as you mother […]

On the occasion of becoming a mother for the first time (an open letter)

May 8, 2023

4 of the most common hesitations for hiring a birth photographer

Why NOT to hire a birth photographer

January 20, 2023

Background Info and Context Our last birth was an unassisted one and I loved it. But this time we hired a midwife, due mostly to my husband’s desire for one, but I also sensed the Lord wanted to show me how to lean into others and receive care (something I am not great at). We […]

my birth stories :: gilbert ignatius

November 15, 2022

(This post is a sequel to my last post called What Is A Birthkeeper?) I’ve written before about what this new-ish and confusedly thrown-about term means in a general sense. And my conclusion was that you really must have a conversation with the person calling herself a birth keeper in order to really know what […]

Who I am as a birth keeper

August 16, 2022

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