For the first time ever on Substack, I saw this post hidden for explicit content and had to click through to see it. I’m not sure how I feel about that, but always love stories of reverence for placenta and the transformations of motherhood across babies and the growth in experience and maturity that comes along with the journey. Thank you for sharing, Makeda, and best wishes.
This spoke straight into a place I’ve long held quiet.
I’m a mother in South Africa, and while I also had financial support to access a birth center (we saved since the day knew I was pregnant to have this it was not easy to access either as we live in far from any major cities and no willing midwives to travel to where we live on game reserve) I too was the first in my lineage to walk a natural path led by intuition at 20 years old, not tradition, no inherited map, no guidance, no education inspiration from social media. 🫣
What you name about how first-world narratives dominate the “natural mama” space while erasing the impact of trauma, access, and inherited scarcity rings so true to what I witness in my community daily, especially in rural areas around my hometown.
Thank you for putting voice to what so many carry. Your words are medicine.
congratulations on the birth of your sweet child, and congratulations to you for laboring into the next evolution of your motherhood. cheers from vermont usa!
For the first time ever on Substack, I saw this post hidden for explicit content and had to click through to see it. I’m not sure how I feel about that, but always love stories of reverence for placenta and the transformations of motherhood across babies and the growth in experience and maturity that comes along with the journey. Thank you for sharing, Makeda, and best wishes.
This spoke straight into a place I’ve long held quiet.
I’m a mother in South Africa, and while I also had financial support to access a birth center (we saved since the day knew I was pregnant to have this it was not easy to access either as we live in far from any major cities and no willing midwives to travel to where we live on game reserve) I too was the first in my lineage to walk a natural path led by intuition at 20 years old, not tradition, no inherited map, no guidance, no education inspiration from social media. 🫣
What you name about how first-world narratives dominate the “natural mama” space while erasing the impact of trauma, access, and inherited scarcity rings so true to what I witness in my community daily, especially in rural areas around my hometown.
Thank you for putting voice to what so many carry. Your words are medicine.
congratulations on the birth of your sweet child, and congratulations to you for laboring into the next evolution of your motherhood. cheers from vermont usa!