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Birthstory: the best of both worlds
I think what Geboortpad team did for me, in one sentence, is give me back my self confidence . Both as a mother and as a woman. It is not that I have had lost it, but more like it was never honoured in such a way that it creates the foundation to rely on it in the most vulnerable times. My journey with them started around February 2024, when I was almost mid-way in my pregnancy. I was determined to have a homebirth and I was looking for “the” team.. In Belgium, I find that i
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Birth and Empowerment
Birth and a « quiet » source of power There is a kind of power that doesn’t announce itself with speeches or titles. It arrives in a room, sometimes dim, sometimes loud, sometimes ordinary, and it changes a woman forever. Birth, when experienced in a way that supports a woman’s full capacity, can become a deep knowing: I can do hard things. I can move through intensity. I can bring life through me. I can trust myself. That knowing can echo for decades. Not because giving birt
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Op 18 april 2020 werd onze tweede zoon Siebe met een spoedkeizersnede geboren.
Over ons borstvoedingsavontuur na een keizersnede.
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How the practice of zazen could help women give birth.
During the last decade, I’ve been an on and off zazen practicioner. This means that regularly, I sit on my meditation cushion, and if...
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