Birthing Conscious Humans: Recent Episodes
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How best can we support incoming souls from conception to birth in this time of change and rapidly evolving human consciousness?
This podcast series is dedicated to all those babies which live inside of us and who perhaps were not seen, who were not heard and were not acknowledged because of a lack of time, ability or awareness.
"I created the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS podcast because babies and children do not have a voice but sense and feel a whole lot more than we remember." Sophia Michalopoulou
The 2nd series of BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS - WITH WATER is going live on Tuesday May 11th.
A fun, light and deeply enlightening chat about the benefits of Water Birth with the amazing, magical and loving veteran midwife JENNY WEST LM CPM BSM CST from New Mexico, USA.
I had the pleasure and honour of receiving Jenny in Corfu, Greece for a SUPPORTING PREGNANCY AND BIRTH WITH WATER retreat. I think she taught me more than I taught her!
We are both in service to birth, passionate about water and mermaids at heart. Thank you for listening in.
If you would like to get in touch with Jenny please do so at https://jennywest.com/
We are all born with unique gifts, skills and abilitities.
We've come to remember them.
Dear Elena, this is an open letter to you.
You are the mother of a future baby.
How, when and where you conceive your baby impacts all of us.
Please listen in.
I am here for your baby and you.
In service of Love,
Sophia
"I am a shooting star
An explosion of spirit
An expression of light
Still finding my way into physical form..."
Inspired by pre-natal imprints.
Sophia Michalopoulou - January 2022
This is the 8th and final episode of BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS - WITH WATER podcast recorded live on Zoom with Sophia Michalopoulou, Laila Sell, Sophia de Rosa Ortiz, Els Soetaert, Anastasíia Kutkovska and Matt Thornton.
With a brief round of introductions, aquatic perinatal therapist and birth doula, Sophia Michalopoulou weaves the story of how each presenter arrived into her life and inspired this wonderful collaboration over the past six months.
The conversation unfolds through water's main therapeutic quality of ALLOWING. Rather than following a pre-determined set of questions or ideas we all agree to allow space in ourselves to share what feels alive in us and at the right moment, in flow.
ALLOWING water to run its course is one of the ways and reasons water lends itself so naturally to birth. Allowing our bodies and baby's to unfold naturally and in their own time is one of the fundamental principles of natural birth.
Similarly, the conversation flows easily and each presenter feels when it is their time to speak.
Some of the themes which arise are:
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How does water support and enhance a more conscious pregnancy and birth preparation?
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How does water support birth from a baby's perspective?
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What qualities of water will allow the next generation of water conscious humans to thrive?
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How does water engage our consciousness?
All podcast conversations are also available on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6fJxlNcM46JZ6jIfsEqt_g
If you would like to share your feedback, contribute financially or support this work in some other way please contact Sophia Michalopoulou at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com or donate to: paypal.me/waterhappy
Your contributions will go towards the creation of a purpose-built container of water to support life in.
Sophia is also available as a public speaker for the ways we can support the next generation of conscious human beings with water.
www.birthingconscioushumans.com
For the 7th episode of the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS - WITH WATER podcast, aquatic therapist and baby doula Sophia Michalopoulou is in a flowing conversation with Els Soetaert who is an Integrative Aquatic and Somatic Therapist based in Belgium.
"I was lucky to meet Els as a supervisor for David Sawyer's Integrative Aquatic Therapy training programme."
In this conversation for the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS - WITH WATER podcast Els allows the listener to feel into the tempo of remembering experience in water.
Some of the themes we touch upon are:
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Becoming the Compassionate Witness
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Elements of Holding Space in Water
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Becoming Curious
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Gauging the tension and allowing space for integration
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Els's personal experience of remembering
You can find out more about Els's work with babies and adults at www.els-aquatouch.com or follow her Facebook or Youtube account.
If you would like to share your feedback, contribute financially or support this work in some other way please contact Sophia Michalopoulou at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com or donate to: paypal.me/waterhappy
Your contributions will go towards the creation of a purpose-built container of water to support life in.
www.birthingconscioushumans.com
LISTENING LIKE WATER is the 6th episode of the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS - WITH WATER podcast with aquatic perinatal therapist Sophia Michalopoulou in conversation with Laila Sell who is an experienced aquatic bodywork practitioner, a somatic yoga teacher trainer and a new parent. Her classes are an invitation to explore and experience new ways of moving, breathing and being, of finding a harmonious flow.
I met Laila in Ischia during a Presence of Being retreat with our beloved teacher Shantam. Laila and her family are one of the many gifts I received in my life over the past year by moving to live very close by, on the island of Corfu.
Many of our conversations revolve around conscious parenting, supporting life with water and the wish for a warm water therapy pool. Some of the themes which show up in this gentle and sensitive conversation are:
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The meeting of another in their essence.
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Layers and maps of listening.
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The many languages of perception.
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How listening like water might inform your way of being a parent.
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What do I do if I don't know what to do for my child?
You can find out more about Laila's classes and retreats or get in touch with her as a parent at www.yogalaila.com or follow her beautiful Instagram account.
If you would like to share your feedback, contribute financially or support this work in some other way please contact Sophia Michalopoulou at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com or donate to: paypal.me/waterhappy
Your contributions will go towards the creation of a purpose-built container of water to support life in.
www.birthingconscioushumans.com
For the 5th episode of BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS - WITH WATER podcast perinatal water therapist and birth doula Sophia Michalopoulou is in conversation with Sound Water therapist Javier Gonzalez who is a dear water brother and an inspirational colleague from Mendoza in Argentina. Javier and Sophia were the inspirers for the SOUND, WATER & BABIES international collaboration facilitated by Aqua Sensory in the UK in 2019, which was also contributed to by international baby swimming tutors Laura Piest and Jo Wilson.
SOUND, WATER & BIRTH is a deeper conversation into the vibratory nature of our early beginnings in utero. By bringing sound, crystal and light vibrations into the water Javier Gonzalez has been creating ripples of change. Javier captures the listener's imagination with what's possible by turning the invisible into visible form.
Deepening our work and connection for SOUND, WATER & BIRTH has been possible thanks to the interpretation skills of Anastasia Kutkowsa with whom both Sophia and Javier have worked in water with, on different occasions. The conversation unfolds slowly to allow space for translations and is energetically full and resonant.
To better attune listeners to the pace of the conversation which is in English and in Spanish, we recommend you view this conversation on video raw and uncut which is published on Youtube.
We touch upon the following themes:
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How we impact babies on a vibrational level
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The subtle reality of birth
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What are we remembering about being born
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What are we choosing as parents and guardians of babies and children
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How are we born in every moment
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Why now?
You can find out more about Javier's work at https://sound-water.com
If you would like to share your feedback, contribute financially or support this work in some other way please contact Sophia Michalopoulou at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com or donate to: paypal.me/waterhappy
Your contributions will go towards the creation of a purpose-built container of water to support life and birth in.
www.birthingconscioushumans.com
For the 4th episode of the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS - WITH WATER podcast aquatic perinatal therapist and birth doula Sophia Michalopoulou is in a dynamic conversation with Zara Peasland from the United Kingdom, whose Aqua Spiralis "womb room" was one of Sophia's inspirations for visiting the UK a few years ago.
As well as being an international baby swimming tutor, Zara is an Aquatic Reflex Integration & Movement Therapist and Tutor who explores conception, birth and early years in water to help babies and adults overcome physical and emotional challenges.
Zara was one of the first baby swimming instructors to train in the recall of a baby's birth story as a therapist and to start an active conversation and training programme about it for the parents and teachers in her swim school.
In this BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS - WITH WATER podcast episode we explore themes such as:
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Observing movement patterns and layers of a baby's birth story
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Creating new paradigms in baby swimming classes
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Encouraging parents to connect with themselves
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Inviting a conversation with baby and facilitating communication with their parent
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The practicalities of connection, the environment, the nurturing as well as the space and time needed for a child to cycle through
You can find out more about Zara's work as a therapist or as a tutor at http://www.aquaeducation.org/ or contact her personally through Facebook.
If you would like to share your feedback, contribute financially or support this work in some other way please contact Sophia Michalopoulou at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com or donate to: paypal.me/waterhappy
Your contributions will go towards the creation of a purpose-built container of water to support life in.
www.birthingconscioushumans.com
A conversation with independent midwife Sophia de Rosa Ortiz, who recently moved to Corfu, Greece with her Greek husband and two children and founded Holistic Midwifery.
Sophia and I worked together in the bilingual production of the Vagina Monologues theatre play but little did we know back then, that we would also be creating the Pregnancy and Birth Network of Kerkyra during a pandemic.
In this conversation we talk about:
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the benefits of a water birth
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the possibility of a water birth on the island of Corfu
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how a water birth might impact birth from a baby's perspective
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bringing birth back to the birthing person's body, knowledge and innate understanding.
"Holistic Midwifery offers antenatal yoga, birth preparation classes, care in labour, breastfeeding and early parenting support.
Empowering women and families to connect with their innate knowledge and create their unique birthing and parenting experience."
sophiaderosaortiz@gmail.com
If you would like to share your feedback, contribute financially or support this work in some other way please contact Sophia Michalopoulou at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com or donate to: paypal.me/waterhappy
Your contributions will go towards the creation of a purpose-built container of water to support life in.
www.birthingconscioushumans.com
Matt Thornton is a water sommelier, an Emoto Hado Instructor but perhaps best described as a multi-dimensional and inter-disciplinary human being who is bringing about change for and with water on a global scale.
Water itself is the natural container for life to grow in but water is also impacted by what it is contained by, what is immersed in it and the consciousness with which it is being perceived.
This is a deep and resonant conversation that introduces the listener to an expanded spectrum of possibilities when thinking about building a container of water to support pregnancy and birth in.
This is a slightly longer episode than most in which Matt offers the listener a more intricate understanding of how water might impact the entire birth journey and how we can work with water rather than just in it to support a new generation of water conscious human beings.
This episode creates a beautiful container in itself for the listener to enjoy and contextualise all the wonderful episodes of BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS - WITH WATER podcast that follow.
Some of the themes we explore are:
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Becoming cocreators with water rather than just participants
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The bioenergetics of water in creating human structure and form
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The relationship between consciousness and water
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Practical considerations when building a pool or a container for water
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When water becomes a path and a spiritual practice
You can find out more about Matt's inspiring water projects, philosophy and services at www.maatthor.com
If you would like to share your feedback, contribute financially or support this work in some other way please contact Sophia Michalopoulou at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com or donate to: paypal.me/waterhappy
Your contributions will go towards the creation of a purpose-built container of water to support life in.
www.birthingconscioushumans.com
While immersed in warm water I began to remember more of who I am. It wasn't what I was intending to happen it just it. Many hours of aquatic immersion later I was able to re-member much of my own birth story back into a fluid continuum and began to see birth from a baby's perspective.
My name is Sophia Michalopoulou and today I am an aquatic perinatal therapist, a newborn and baby swimming educator as well as a pregnancy and birth baby doula.
My work in water arose through my own journey of remembering more of who I am. I have trained in and experienced many different aquatic modalities, therapeutic disciplines as well as pregnancy and birth care programmes in order to support my own awareness, with the integrity of practice this delicate work involves.
For this second series of the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS podcast, I dedicated my attention to water and invited friends and colleagues who are dear to my heart, with whom I have experienced their therapeutic work in water or I have a personal resonance with. What we have in common is that we all work WITH WATER to support the birth of conscious human beings.
Your caring and sharing of this podcast with friends and colleagues will hopefully inspire even more responses and contributions to the growing field of conscious birth and our evolving capacities as conscious human beings and an awareness of the value of water in raising our conscious awareness of ourselves.
Your financial support would be greatly appreciated in allowing me to dive deeper into this field of research and would contribute towards the creation of a purpose-built container of water to support life in.
You may contact me at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com or if you appreciate this work and would like to support it please donate to: paypal.me/waterhappy
www.birthingconscioushumans.com
Welcome to the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS podcast.
This second series is about supporting birth and newborn life WITH WATER.
While immersed in warm water I began to remember more of who I am. It wasn’t what I was intending to happen. It just it.
Water helps us remember more of who we are by teaching us how to adapt and rise up to meet the waves of change we encounter in life, while also re-membering us back to a sense of wholeness from the inside out.
My name is Sophia Michalopoulou and I am an aquatic perinatal therapist, a newborn and baby swimming instructor as well as pregnancy and birth baby doula.
For this second series of the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS podcast called WITH WATER I invited friends and colleagues who are dear to my heart and with whom I have a personal resonance and experience of their therapeutic work in water.
Contributors to the second series are:
Sophia Michalopoulou - REMEMBERING MORE OF WHO WE ARE
Matt Thornton - A CONTAINER FOR BIRTH
Sophia de Rosa Ortiz - WATER BIRTHS
Zara Peasland - INTEGRATING BIRTH WITH WATER
Javier Gonzalez - SOUND, WATER & BIRTH
Laila Sell - LISTENING LIKE WATER
Els Soetaert - WATER & BIRTH MEMORIES
The 2nd series of the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS - WITH WATER podcast will be released on Tuesday 11th May 2021.
The music track for this series is called "In the Belly of a Whale" and has been contributed by Igor Ezendam from "Feeling Sound".
If you would like to share your feedback, contribute financially or support this work in some other way please contact Sophia Michalopoulou at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com or donate to: paypal.me/waterhappy
Your contributions will go towards the creation of a purpose-built container of water to support life in.
www.birthingconscioushumans.com
LISTEN IN to this inspiring closure of the very first cycle of the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS podcast.
Contributors come TOGETHER live to share their insights and takeaways on BIRTH FROM A BABY'S PERSPECTIVE.
The podcast CONTRIBUTORS in this series are:
Sophia Michalopoulou - Birth from a Baby's Perspective - www.waterhappy.net
Aldebaran Sandrini - Baby Birth Charts - www.aldebaransandrini.com
Dona Tumacder - Esteban - Conscious Conception - www.innermoonwellbeing.com
Igor Ezendam - Sounds in a Baby's Name - www.feelingsound.com
Ariana Artioli - Juicy Mamas - www.ariannabenedettait.weebly.com
Colleen Grassnick - Preparing the Vessel - www.corfunaturalhealth.com
Sacha Heath - Conscious Conception - www.yogawithsacha.com
You may contact each contributor directly for online support.
This podcast series is dedicated to all those babies which live inside of us and which perhaps were not seen, who were not heard and were not acknowledged because of a lack of time, ability or awareness.
I created the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS podcast because babies and children do not have a voice but sense and feel a lot more than we consciously remember and who are ready and waiting for us to become aware of them for more of WHO THEY ARE.
These are urgent times. I hope the conversations featured in the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS podcast, inspire new possibilities and pathways for you and your families, trigger you into healing processes and a greater awareness of your own birth journeys which will awaken a deeper and more authentic love for your selves and so for your babies and children.
THANK YOU for listening in and please do PASS IT ON so that the RIPPLE EFFECT of this creation continues.
There will be another BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS series coming soon WITH WATER.
With Love,
Sophia
Sophia Michalopoulou introduces the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS podcast.
Sophia is a baby doula, a baby swimming instructor and an aquatic perinatal therapist.
In this first episode, she shares how she became aware of her own birth experiences while immersed in warm water.
She also briefly introduces the inspiring human beings who will offer their own experiences and expertise in this first podcast cycle of conversations.
Before closing, Sophia offers us 5 insights she would like every parent, teacher, midwife or advocates for babies and children to know.
" This podcast series is dedicated to all those babies which live inside of us and which perhaps were not seen, who were not heard and were not acknowledged because of a lack of time, ability or awareness.
I created the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS podcast because babies and children do not have a voice but sense and feel a lot more than we consciously remember and who are ready and waiting for us to become aware of them for more of WHO THEY ARE.
These are urgent times. I hope the conversations featured in the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS podcast, inspire new possibilities and pathways for you and your families, trigger you into healing processes and a greater awareness of your own birth journeys which will awaken a deeper and more authentic love for your selves and so for your babies and children.
THANK YOU for listening in and please do PASS IT ON so that the RIPPLE EFFECT of this creation continues."
To contact Sophia for any support, contributions or feedback please contact her directly at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com
Sacha Heath is a devoted practitioner, a yoga and meditation teacher and a talented mantra singer.
She is also a new mum. Listen In to this honest and heartwarming conversation about what CONSCIOUS PARENTING means to her.
How do her choices affect baby Rafael and how does her dedicated practice support her in early motherhood?
You can stay with Sacha and her family at Mandala B & B in Magoulades, Corfu or join one of her beautiful yoga sessions online at www.yogawithsacha.com
Your feedback, questions and contributions are most welcome at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com
What do optimal sperm preparation and the colour green have in common?
In this conversation with naturopath, Colleen Grassnick some pretty deep questions arise, about consciousness and the physiological body.
How, for example, can we prepare our own and our baby's body to sustain the increasing changes in our environments?
How can we naturally support mental health and immune system stability?
These are not easy questions to answer by anyone's measure.
Listen In to how the intergenerational effect of gut bacteria can be addressed naturopathically.
You may contact Colleen directly for an online consultation at www.corfunaturalhealth.com.
For any feedback regarding the conversation and the Birthing Conscious Humans podcast please write to aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com
Juicy Mamas is an intimate and juicy conversation with Arianna Artioli about the work involved in staying juicy as a woman, pregnant mother or birthing child.
What does being juicy look and feel like?
How to cultivate juiciness and generate nourishment?
What does nature have to do with it?
What flowers support birth from a baby's perspective?
Listen In while we explore some of these questions which encourage us to observe, enquire and dive a little deeper into the flow of life within.
For individual support, you may contact Arianna directly on facebook or through her websites https://ariannabenedettait.weebly.com/ and https://www.feelingsound.com/
Your reflections, contributions and feedback are always welcome at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com
"What's in a name?"
An intriguing conversation with overtone singer and sound therapist Igor Ezendam from Feeling Sound about the sounds in a baby's name.
The Sounds in a Baby's name have an impact on a baby's multidimensional being.
Try the exercise Igor suggests in this conversation with your own name.
Listen In and get back to us with any more questions, feedback and contributions at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com
You may contact Igor directly for an online consultation at www.feelingsound.com
Listen In to a conversation with Dona Tumacder-Esteban about women's cyclical nature.
Dona is a women's well-being coach from the Philippines who empowers women by becoming conscious of their menstrual cycles, rhythms and tempos and the impact this has when trying to conceive.
CONSCIOUS CONCEPTION is not out to set another standard to measure ourselves out by.
LOVE is the bottom line.
But what is the impact of a conscious conception FROM A BABY'S PERSPECTIVE?
From a consciousness point of view, there are at least three participants in the decision TO BE BORN into this life.
A lot of interesting perspectives show up in this conversation which was recorded online.
Your questions, feedback and contributions are always welcome and you may contact us at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com
You can also follow Dona on Instagram @Innermoonwellbeing who is currently sharing menstrual cycle prompts for you to follow.
LISTEN IN to a conversation with astrologer ALDEBARAN SANDRINI.
What is a Baby Birth Chart?
How can a baby's birth chart provide you with insights about your child's way of seeing the world?
How could you better understand your child's strengths and challenges so you can support her in a way which resonates best with her?
Is there such a thing as conception rather than birth astrology?
Are there any clear signs as to how we could be moving forward collectively with future generations?
If you have any more questions or insights please contact us at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com
You may contact Aldebaran directly at www.aldebaransandrini.com
I am joined on this podcast by friends, families and professionals seeking for ways which allow babies and children to be seen, heard and acknowledged for more of who they are.
Hi, my name is Sophia and I am a baby doula.
I support the entire birth journey and early childhood from a baby's perspective.
These are changing times. This is the time to LISTEN IN.
This podcast series is dedicated to all those babies which live inside of us and which perhaps were not seen, who were not heard and were not acknowledged because of a lack of time, ability or awareness.
I created the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS podcast because babies and children do not have a voice but sense and feel a lot more than we consciously remember and who are ready and waiting for us to become aware of them for more of WHO THEY ARE.
These are urgent times. I hope the conversations featured in the BIRTHING CONSCIOUS HUMANS podcast, inspire new possibilities and pathways for you and your families, trigger you into healing processes and a greater awareness of your own birth journeys which will awaken a deeper and more authentic love for your selves and so for your babies and children.
THANK YOU for listening in and please do PASS IT ON so that the RIPPLE EFFECT of this creation continues.
If you would like to contribute or support this work please contact me at aquaticdoulaservices@gmail.com