Reflections on birth, matrescence and the profound transformation of becoming a mother. Written from the threshold, as a doula, a practitioner and a woman navigating this journey herself.
Only about five percent of babies are born on their due date. That fact alone, so simple, so rarely communicated, changes something about how we hold the final weeks of pregnancy. I attended a postdates pregnancy workshop recently, and what I came away with was not primarily clinical information, though there was plenty of that, but a clearer sense of how much anxiety surrounds the due date in the current maternity system, and how much of that anxiety is not necessary. A due
