Reproductive Justice, PrEP and Birthworkers
Women living with HIV in the UK are often diagnosed during antenatal care. Yet birthworkers are not always trained in, or aware of the most current HIV prevention strategies. It is useful to learn more about these strategies and their benefits for women. As...
What is Yoni Steaming?
Yoni Steam, vaginal steaming, v-steam, womb steaming, pum-pum steam, chai-yok, or bajo these are the different names for this impressive ancient remedy that has been used for centuries by women all over the world to support deep reproductive wellness. I was lucky...
Mama Breastfeed
Let me share with you the importance of breastfeeding, the benefits of breastfeeding for mother and child and the risk of formula feeding. I recommend that all women learn about breastfeeding during pregnancy and share the information they have gained with their...
Why i want to decolonise everything!
How the Decolonising Health symposium made me want to decolonise everything!!! OK, so it’s World Health Day today and there is no time like the present to hand in my review of the Decolonising Health (in society, science and museums) symposium at the...
Erica Garner – Say Her Name
What a way to end 2017. With the death of another beautiful black woman. An activist. A woman who shouted out her father’s dying words ‘I can’t breathe’. A young mother of two, one a baby born just a few short months ago. She died of a heart attack. Her heart...
Scientification and Sacred Reverence of Birth. Part I
As a doula and holistic therapist the busy-ness and business side of the work can make things seem a little carnal. Paradoxically, you can 'feel' a little mechanical and almost robotic as you get lost through data, journals, emails, contracts, assessments and so on....
Nutritional therapy for feminine and postnatal health
When a client comes to me for nutritional therapy we have a consultation and during that consultation a picture of the health needs become apparent. There is usually a clear link between what and how they eat and the symptoms they are experiencing. Here is short post...
Listening to the Legacy of Feminine Laywork
As I sit down to plan my short piece as a guest for Nyumbani kwa Mama, academic jargon from my A level media lessons enter my mind. I think about intertextuality. I remember that class, it gave me 'a' piece of vocabulary that I needed. Accustomed to speaking broken...
Being a Postnatal Doula
Most people I meet have never heard of a doula, the people who have often don’t know that some doulas, like myself only work postnatally. I did a full doula preparation course and I was excited to work with pregnant and birthing women but I didn’t see how being at a...
Othering
othering ˈʌðə/ verb gerund or present participle: othering view or treat (a person or group of people) as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself. “a critique of the ways in which the elderly are othered by society” Like many I am so raw today. There is no...
