Earthy-Birthy "magical baby preparation"

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  • mamajill
  on Feb. 12, 2008 at 2:01 PM
• Spiritual mamahood book suggestions:
  
  Blessingways: A Guide to Mother-Centered Baby Showers--Celebrating Pregnancy, Birth, and Motherhood (Paperback)by Shari Maser Blessingways: A Guide to Mother-Centered Baby Showers is a resource especially for planning and hosting Blessingway baby showers that foster a bond of community, support and connectedness for the mother-to-be. The distinguishing feature of a Blessingway baby shower is that it is a woman-centered celebration, that especially focuses upon the strength, beauty, and metamorphosis of the female powers of the expectant mother, rather than the more typical baby-centered parties used to accumulate goods for the newborn.
  
  Mother Rising: The Blessingway Journey into Motherhood

  The newest edition of Mother Rising has been published by Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press and is being distributed nationally and internationally, so please check your local bookstore. To order Mother Rising, visit the Celestial Arts website: www.tenspeed.com ©2006 ISBN-13: 978-1-58761-267-1
  
  Mother Blessings Honoring Women Becoming Mothers
  by Anna Stewart 
  This book gives women a hundred ideas for honoring women in the community through ceremonies, celebrations and creative expressions. “This book is the golden ticket to deliver us from the pastel, game playing baby shower that belittles and makes ’cute’ the sublime transformation of a women into a mother. Herein lies the real thing – full acknowledgement of the splendor and challenges that mothering brings to a women’s life. Beyond that, this book masterfully guides the new mother and her support community in creating an intentional ceremony that celebrates, honors and nurtures the new mother, all in an artful manner, befitting the majesty of her new role.” -- Beth Osnes, author of Twice Alive: A Spiritual Guide to Mothering Through Pregnancy and the Child’s First Year.

          

     

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  • mamajill
  on Aug. 8, 2008 at 9:44 AM

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  birth poems by Jeannine Parvati Baker

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  Ten Moons Give Light
  
  Women are like plants.
  
  We turn light into matter.
  
  Plants do photosynthesis -
  
  We do embryogenesis.
  
  How do we do this magic?
  
  No one knows.
  
  Women take the light
  
  in our lovers' eyes and
  
  in ten moons give light
  
  in the form of a baby.
  
  
  
  
  FIRST FLUTTERING:
  THE QUICKENING
  
  
  I feel the baby move:
  First fluttering.
  The sensation cocoons me.
  I enfold myself more deeply
  into this pregnancy.
  
  Insular, fleshing about creation:
  A hidden magic, like a camera.
  I've snapped the picture
  of what our love looks like
  and am silently growing it within.
  
  How bold to fall in love
  with my unseen child.
  Soon, self-developed, out
  you will slide. The picture of
  our ecstasy becoming
  clearer as you dry.
  
  Adoration: You
  of the original face.
  Do I see a butterfly?
  Some winged possibility
  thrown here into my womb.
  
  I look and peer inside.
  You spin out yourself secretly:
  A labyrinth of wet desire.
  Sometimes I glimpse
  a chaotic light, a firefly
  blinking into existence.
  
  These previews comes
  before dawn, after dark,
  at the changing times.
  You soar then, weaving mystery.
  
  Mostly I feel you.
  As you hide from my eyes
  you cannot from my skin.
  I contain you, my baby:
  As surely as soul holds me
  or the ocean cradles the earth.
  
  You are the lightest substance,
  the tentative leap into matter.
  I feel you like wet seaweed
  around my thighs.
  I feel your heart, twice
  as fast as mine.
  I feel your breath
  reminding me of enlightenment.
  I feel your hopes to be, quickening.

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