You are so much more than a container for growing a baby.

But mainstream maternity care likely won’t treat you that way.

Women are often made to feel that they are selfish, or even reckless, for having a plan for their birth - especially those who deviate from the standard protocol.

You want an alternative to the glucose tolerance test? Want to forego ultrasounds? Don’t want to be induced at 39 weeks? You must not care about your baby.

It’s almost as if providers don’t understand that a healthy baby doesn’t have to come at the expense of your physical & emotional well-being - that you don’t have to become a martyr and sacrifice yourself in order for that to happen.

You can have a healthy baby AND an amazing birth experience. They don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

You should emerge from your birth feeling like you can do anything, not battered and broken in the name of “health”.

You are important. What happens to you matters. You are more than a vessel.