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Love Birth. Will Travel.
In July I had the privilege of attending a birth, over 1800kms from home. I've known the Mumma for four years through the Joyous Birth network. Back then we were both pregnant (her with her second, me...
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Placenta Printing To Start The New Year
Happy new year, readers! It's been a long time between posts, I know! I've been very busy with non-birthy things, lately. In December our baby celebrated her 1st birthday! And New Years Day marked one...
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Dad Harrassed by Police for Babywearing in Australia
It has been an interesting week for my family. Looking back I'm dumbfounded by how one little moment can change everything. If my 12 month old daughter had fallen asleep at home on Sunday afternoon, as...
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20 Australian mums die after birthing in hospital in a single year
But mothers dying after planned hospital births is not news. The tragic death of 1 Australian mother after her homebirth, however, has made headlines. The media's coverage of the story has been as...
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Shit People Say To Full-Term Breastfeeders
In the same vein as "Shit new age girls say" and "Shit crunchy mamas say" I give you a "shit people say to full-term breastfeeders" tumblr blog (sorry, me and my webcam would have suuuucked, so you get...
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Homebirth Ryan Gosling Meme
My friends introduced me to Ryan Gosling Feminist Flashcards last year, an appropriation of a tumblr project entitled: FuckYeah Ryan Gosling. Many of the flashcards made us giggle and we were delighted...
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Scenes from the 36 week meet
The thirty-six week meet with a homebirth support team is one of my favourite birth-servant-experiences. The birth is just around the corner, there is an air of excitement and a great sense of...
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Blessingway, belly art & a special gift for the birth servant
Today I had the great honour of attending a blessingway at which the Mumma of hounour received a belly-casting from her first and third born daughters. When I focus on the warm, delicious feeling the...
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My New Arrival
The Birth Pool in a Box Eco (regular size)!Images sourced from hereI LOVE this pool. According to their website, this pool is "perfect for expectant mothers up to 6' (182cm) tall!" My husband and I...
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Dear Oscar
***trigger warnings for birth trauma survivors*** Dear Oscar At the time of writing this you are 74 hours old. You are in your Mother's arms and you know how very loved you are. You are such a blessing...
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Empowering Birth Book Launch
Zaslavsky at launchOn the weekend I attended the launch of A modern woman's guide to a natural empowering birth, a new book by an Australian author. The author, Katrina Zaslavsky opened the launch by...
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Face of Birth Screening & Discussion
Rhea Dempsey reflecting on the filmI had the pleasure of attending a screening of a new Australian made documentary about maternity services and childbirth:Face of Birth. This documentary is fantastic....
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Trust in Birth? We Need Another Australian Birth Documentary
I realise in my previous post I gave an account of some of the stand out moments and themes of the Face of Birth documentary that stayed with me after its first viewing and in so doing I neglected to...
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Do you "like" Ilithyia Inspired on Facebook?
If not, now might be a good time to jump on and click "like" because...I'm having a giveaway! JuJu are sending me two menstrual cups for review. JuJu are the only company I know of who provide an...
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Reimagining Menstruation
'The value we place on menstruation has a direct correlation with the value we place on ourselves as women' - Lara Owen My cycle is slowly sorting herself out since returning in November, almost eleven...
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Menstrual cup give-away!
Feeling slightly Oprah-ish this week, hosting my first online give-away. I invited a handful of cup companies to help me spread the cup love and was delighted to receive positive responses from JuJu,...
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Win a Free Diva Cup
I am giving away one size 2 Diva Cup to one of my Facebook likers, to review. To win this cup click this link, like the photo and share on your Facebook wall. I will draw the winning name and announce...
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Scarlet Eve
Jo with her menfolkAfter years of blogging, I am delighted to announce that Ilithyia Inspired has its first ever sponsor: Scarlet Eve! I refuse to end my ad-free-blogging on any old company, there are...
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Breastfeeding a 4 year old
Full-term breastfeeding has hit headlines again thanks to Time Magazine's controversial cover story about Jaime Lynn Grume breastfeeding her three year old son. Because I'm a lactivist, who happens to...
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Diva Cup Review
Diva Cup gifted me a menstrual cup to review, a few months ago. Three cycles later I am feeling ready to share my thoughts with readers about the product and my experiences with what was a steep...
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