🌀Lets go on a journey here, this is a beautiful story of birth told from the words of a mother that has encompassed her work and life with the gifts that each child brought her. Meet Julia, specialist in the body from a background of anatomist to working now with women in pelvic mapping and Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy®. We head on an interesting journey here and learn extensively about what each birth can teach us and how we can embrace the journey and find ways to support others in our blooming mother path. Julia was an absolute delight to listen to, her voice resonated a divine message of wisdom and she spoke her stories thus to show the intrinsic and intuitive nature of us as human beings. Find a nice cuppa for this episode and snuggle into some wellness podcasting! We began with Julia’s interesting journey from starting Reiki as young teen and then transversing through her studies in human science. Fascinating how Julia describes listening to her callings in life. From here we talk about her mothering journey. As the modern (young) age of 24 Julia come into their pregnancy and her and her partner went along the path of the birth centre, the discussion leads into the space of the shut down process during this pregnancy and what that looked like for her. Julia felt in hindsight that she was not ready and fearful. Julia, working with this feeling found out that baby was in breech position, she had to leave the familiar and comfortable birth centre space and head into the hospital. Cesarean was booked and we walk through the process for Julia as a young woman experiencing baby coming through the veil, very quickly and very big to process. With Julia’s next birth, she had a university degree under her belt in human science, this young family spent allot of time travelling and adjusting to a new phase of their family life. We talk about the next birth being a planned C Section. This birth being a planned experience offered more of a leeway into the journey and offering insight where Julia was heading with her work and her own personal growth. So not long after this birth Julia conceived again. This pregnancy was a head down baby and Julia was looking at letting the baby decide on this birth. Her doctor was supportive, the hospital not so much and Julia talked about the fear processes that come to her during this time. Already she has a midwife that handpicked her wanting to support her at the birth in the hospital and helped Julia with the navigation of the system. We entered into the space that Julia went into feeling labour for the first time, the labour once she released her blockages went along very fast. We talked about Julia’s growth in her work (see the resources for great info) she come to the sense that there was strong messages to her to have a homebirth. Julia describes the birth as incredible, the midwife arrived at around 9cm, this was described as the most connected, empowered birth. Baby was born into the water. Julia describes baby as smiling when he come out. They had a lotus birth and describe the experience being home this time. Having your first baby births you into becoming a mother. From these inspiring journeys we talk in depth on how Julias work is reflected from these journeys. Julia is practicing Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® and also Pelvic Mapping (see resources). This is where we deep dive into mensuration, body shame, pelvic mapping, exploring the womens mysteries. This is the essence of who Julia is today!   From Julia “I know the very second that my body shut down and closed”. “New parents need more support”. “I always said that I will let the baby decide how to come”. “I felt really honoured as a woman during my birth”.