Postpartum Mapping & Support

What does it feel like to be held?

Supporting a woman through her journey from Maiden to Mother is a hugely under-resourced area of pregnancy and early childhood care. In ways, it feels like this vast and isolated minefield of hormonal shifts, physical and emotional recovery, on-the-job training as a new parent, and sitz baths. It’s the misty no-mans-land between the glory of pregnancy and the bliss of a new baby. So often, it isn’t talked about at all. And worse still, in our modern culture, the speed at which a woman “bounces back” after giving birth is celebrated as a badge of honor.