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 | 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 | Nov 24, 2018 | Child development, Parenting
As babies, our little ones need us to give generously to care for them. Our wholehearted responsiveness to their needs of all kinds creates within them a sense of trust in relationship. We respond with ‘Yes, my dear one’, as much as we are able. Babies...
by Catherine | Nov 26, 2013 | Active baby in birth
Your baby is the prime instigator of labor in a physiologic birth. He begins the whole process of birth via dynamic fluid communications through his placenta. In utero your baby tracks all of her own internal development. Researchers seeking the triggers for onset of...