Those Early Days:  a story of my final straw

Those Early Days: a story of my final straw

  Although I don’t remember the year, exactly   (those early days are all a blur)   I remember   that I was driving down North Street.   In my mind’s eye it was late Fall, because the sky was darkening as I drove home from work...
The Change That Changes Everything

The Change That Changes Everything

You may have noticed   that everything around here has changed.   I have put Nalumana, the former name of my company, quietly to rest and I am stepping into this work just me ME.   I can’t say what propelled my decision but a great number of...
A New Postpartum Paradigm:  Seven Practical Tips

A New Postpartum Paradigm: Seven Practical Tips

  You spent 853 hours searching for the right cloth diapers.   You feel like you spent 853 hours in labour. You read all the books, you spent hours drinking tea and scribbling down birth preferences with your doula. And now   it feels like you’re...
Six Things I Know About Motherhood

Six Things I Know About Motherhood

  After ten years of supporting women to birth and mother their babies, and six years of doing so myself, here are the things I know:   –>  Motherhood is a rite of passage; a modern-day Heroine’s Journey.  It’s so much more than learning...
How to Create a Momifesto

How to Create a Momifesto

I remember the weekend like it was yesterday.   It was cold, for July, and I was writing so frantically in my journal that I had forgotten to collect firewood and light the fire.  The sweat from my afternoon hike cooled my skin as it dried and I began to shiver....