Pregnancy

If you are not pregnant, don’t wish to become pregnant, are not of childbearing age or maybe don’t even carry a womb in your body: this topic is still of major importance to you. How I can know that without knowing you? Because one thing is certain if you are a human: you have been in a womb and you were born. And both of these events do have a profound impact on us humans – which, I believe, most of us are not aware of. Neither as pregnant parents nor as (grown up) children.

I would like to invite you to watch this TED-talk by the brilliant Anna Verwaal, who is, amongst others, a nurse, midwife, doula and birth photographer. Anna has worked in a large number of different and very diverse countries all over the world, and who is today sharing her observations, knowledge, experience and research, as well as offering consultations for people with all kind of birth related challenges (incl. our own birth, fertilty challenges, miscarriages etc.). 

Before starting the video, please remember to meet yourself and others with compassion. Every person is doing their (!) best at any given moment, regarding their current knowledge and access to resources. Pregnancy often is assumed to be a walk on roses, always beautiful and fantastic. But many times, this time involves loneliness, sickness, pain, fear, stress and worries. Some pregnant women are experiencing abuse, war, homelessness, separation or any other experience which already is traumatic in itself. So embrace yourself (if you are or have been carrying a human in your womb) or/and that person who once carried you in their womb, and invite self-love, grief and forgiveness.