Honestly, this is the kind of episode you can't write a description for.

Our beautiful friend Ixchel Prisma talked with us today about the depths and beauty of her second trimester loss with her spirit baby, River Nova.

This story goes back at least a decade to her initial connection with a baby spirit. Ixchel has spun lead into gold, experiencing death and grief in pregnancy as a profound portal to herself. To her own growth and connection to spirit. And to a greater understanding of the workings of spirit baby connection and soul contracts.

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You can find Ixchel -

Her beautiful song - Birthing Spiral

All of her music on Bandcamp

And Spotify

And her beautiful floral earrings!

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If you have anything you want to hear more about, or any questions you'd like us to address, please reach out at catskillsbirthcollective@gmail.com. We welcome your feedback.

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Check out our online, comprehensive birth education course Wise Woman, Sacred Birth to go deeper into self responsibility, trust and connection with your inner self, and knowledge and wisdom of the biological truths of the childbearing year, and connection with other beautiful mamas.

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When asked about their postpartum plan, so many women say "Well, my husband is taking 3 weeks off work...". While thats great (although we'd be more into all fathers being given paid paternity leave for at least a month), that alone should not be your postpartum support in an ideal situation.

We talk about:

• How we envision the ideal postpartum time to look and feel
• How sinking into this design can allow the blessing of a different time perception and brain wave state to come aboard. A delicious, relaxed, healing, state.
• Postpartum is designed to be slow - we need to have enough support to hold the energy of slow
• Partner needs slow as well! Mother can't fully relax if everyone around her is running around and feeling hectic.
• Fathers need also need time to integrate as well! This is a huge transition for the whole family.
• Father's can’t be doing constantly and expect to also have space to feel
• The theory of everyone in the postpartum time needing two layers of support
• Creating healthy fatherhood begins with the birth of the father!
• It's often more difficult, but extremely important for men to practice dropping from a space of doing to a space of being
• Sometimes new fathers experience a crash as way of slowing down. We need postpartum support to allow them to stay present.
• Your next tangible steps spelled out to creating sacred space for both parents postpartum

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Mentioned in the show:

Our Postpartum Planning Guide

Rachelle Garcia Seliga of Innate Traditions

Birthfit postpartum program

Wise Woman, Sacred Birth

A few of our relevant previous episodes:

Manifesting Your Ideal Postpartum Time

Your Motherhood is For You - with Nicole

The Vital Energies of Receiving in the Postpartum Time

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Thanks for listening!

If you’re enjoying our show, please leave us a rating and review!

If you have anything you want to hear more about, or any questions you'd like us to address, please reach out at catskillsbirthcollective@gmail.com. We welcome your feedback.

Follow us on Instagram @catskillsbirtheducation for more musings and information on wholistic pregnancy, physiological birth, and intuitive motherhood.

Check out our online, comprehensive birth education course Wise Woman, Sacred Birth to go deeper into self responsibility, trust and connection with your inner self, and knowledge and wisdom of the biological truths of the childbearing year, and connection with other beautiful mamas.

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Postpartum care provider and educator, mother to 4, this postpartum was probably perfect, right? Beautifully, postpartum is an ever deepening, ever challenging, ever incredible spiral into yourself. With the opportunity for new lessons, new messages, and new challenges each time. Sara and I had a lovely walk and talk about her fourth postpartum after the birth of her son, Akiva.

We talk about:

• She hosted her first nesting party at 36-ish weeks pregnant. (Highly recommend.)
• Boundary medicine in postpartum time!
• Yes, everyone wants to see the baby, but it’s so important for you to protect your energetic bubble.
• You are so sensitive and so vulnerable in this time, so while you need so much support and love and care, you also need to be discerning with who is in your space.
• How her husband, Z, and her three kids mentally prepared themselves for her to be resting and less available for many weeks.
• Sara’s top baby gear recommendation (vacuum snot sucker)
• Her baby, Akiva, made milk (curse of the midwife?)
• Sara’s relationship with her own body! This is so strongly passed down the matrilineal paths, often in a not so helpful way. Sara opens up about her own relationship with her body and body image, and how she is choosing to teach her kids to relate.
• Sara’s early menstrual cycle return
• And what she’s been doing starting at a few days, postpartum to care for her body, heal, and feel strong.
• How we can have an understanding of the ideals, while also flowing with the realities of life.

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Mentioned in the show:

Our Postpartum Planning Guide

Nicole's incredible offering - rooted

Our podcast episode with Adrian Dimatteo

Restore Your Core - postpartum movement

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Thanks for listening!

If you’re enjoying our show, please leave us a rating and review!

If you have anything you want to hear more about, or any questions you'd like us to address, please reach out at catskillsbirthcollective@gmail.com. We welcome your feedback.

Follow us on Instagram @catskillsbirth for more musings and information on wholistic pregnancy, physiological birth, and intuitive motherhood.

Check out our online, comprehensive birth education course Wise Woman, Sacred Birth to go deeper into self responsibility, trust and connection with your inner self, and knowledge and wisdom of the biological truths of the childbearing year, and connection with other beautiful mamas.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.