His little body was working just as hard as hers. Dropping down, wriggling from the comfort of the womb, his home. He began his big journey, just as she began hers. Both bodies working together to create the miracle that is Child Birth. He moved to pass down through...
She cried out for God her whole labor. She arrived at 6cm, only 4 more to go. She was an older woman. Saying this was her fifth baby, I would soon learn it was her fifth living baby, but her eighth birth. She had been through this before. She was tough. The grit in her...
October 3rd Something very beautiful happened in Concepcion, Chiquirichapa on the evening of October 3rd*. A week earlier there had been a young boy, 22 years old, from Concepcion who was killed in Maryland; he had gone there to work. This young boy happened to be...
I felt Her Waters on me today. My naked body plunged into Her blue depths. She tossed me gently, soothing every crevice of my skin. I felt Her touch: That of a Mother, with a deep power, a deep wisdom that moved between her volcanic shores. I was not without Fear. There...
The Lake shouts as she lays still, basking the whole land in depth. From our heights we can feel her blowing, shining, igniting her long arms to embrace our naked bodies. She is not just the Water, She is the Wind, She is the Sunrise that dances on her very...
The clinic is called ACAM (Associacion de Comadronas del Area Mam). The birthing center was built and created 12 years ago by a group of 35 traditional indigenous midwives who had come together in community. Their dream was to create a clinic for the women...
One of the more different and distinctive things that I have witness while studying at ACAM is the process of cord clamping and cutting. At ACAM the cord clamping is a gentle process that feels like it is safe for the mother and baby and...