by Catherine | Nov 17, 2025 | Active baby in birth, Babies, Birth, Newborn, Prenatal, Services, Somatic mamas
Innate resources from the beginning While in utero your baby is developing many capacities that she will bring to the birth as resources. Her abilities to move and to sense started from the earliest days. Among the very first experiences that your baby perceives is...
by Catherine | Aug 9, 2025 | Babies, Breastfeeding, Newborn, Prenatal
While breastfeeding is a natural activity for mothers and babies, we can never know how it will actually go for a nursing pair. How your birth goes can greatly impact breastfeeding. Your best shot at easier, pain-free breastfeeding is a vaginal birth and learning...
by Catherine | Jul 16, 2025 | Living in harmony
Take kindly the counsel of the earth gracefully surrounding the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortunes. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born in fatigue and loneliness beyond the whole discipline. Be...
by Catherine | Feb 22, 2025 | Active baby in birth, Mindfulness in motion, Prenatal
Working with Catherine gave me the confidence to know exactly which positions I could use to make my birth natural and relatively smooth…AND be brave enough to let the medical staff know that I insisted on being on all fours, so gravity could help, even when they told...
by Catherine | Dec 13, 2018 | Birth
Looking towards birth for a beloved mother & baby, we all put safety first, without question. What does safety mean to each one of us? When we start to unpack safety at birth, it has many dimensions. Health and well-being of mother and baby are foremost....