Hi, I'm Madison.
A woman who learned to trust life more than the stories we've been conditioned to believe through embodied pregnancy and birth.
BELIEF #1
The body is not an object to manage, but an intelligence to listen to.
BELIEF #2
Life unfolds through relationship rather than domination.
BELIEF #3
Women flourish when they reclaim their capacity to participate in their lives.
I remember listening to my first freebirth story in 2019...
All my mind could say is, "What do you mean this woman birthed her baby in the middle of nowhere, in a snow storm, in a yurt, with only her partner and her dog? Did she just say midwolf? What the actual fuck. She's nuts."
I laugh now because my body knew something then that my mind wasn't yet ready to accept: this is for me. It was as if my bones were vibrating in resonance and remembrance as she spoke her story.
I listened to the entire season over the next few weeks. I cycled between amazement and awe, and the story of I could never do that.
I put birth down for a few years. Didn't think anything of it. I got married in 2022, and in 2023 my husband and I were willing to consider a baby in our lives.
Little did I know then, I would end up birthing my first daughter at home with my husband, supported by my midwolves and a circle of ancestors drumming with fire around our home.
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