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Training Your Husband: A letter from a Friend

8th December 2023 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

Anyway, do you remember Karen? Well, I bumped into her at yoga and she told me she had the same problem with her wife and told me about this marriage consultant called Fina Gord. She's expensive, but her methods are said to be really effective. Apparently, I just need to leave him to cry. That way Continue Reading

Devolution: Birth in 2073.

6th May 2023 By doulamaddie 2 Comments

Fria and Hadies: The Ice & Fire Fria stands in the threshold to the kitchens, a bowl of fresh melon slices in her hand, scowling. She hates how these entitled girls order her around and she is very much enjoying telling the kitchen staff how annoying this one is, sending her off on wild Continue Reading

Birth in 2073: Episode 11. Demeter Reaches Down Into The Depths

20th March 2023 By doulamaddie 1 Comment

A bead of perspiration runs down Persphone's temple. Stray hairs have escaped her high pony tail and are stuck to her face. She is half sitting, half lying in the huge hospital birthing-bed, mauve hospital gown twisted around her body. Fria the Birthnurse tuts and sighs. Every time this one writhes Continue Reading

Birth in 2073: Persephone Meets Haidies

7th February 2023 By doulamaddie 2 Comments

  This extract has a fair dues warning. If you feel it might be too difficult to read about birth trauma, lack of consent and assault, even in fictionised form, don't read on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Walter sits in the Continue Reading

Birth in 2073: Persephone Enters The Underworld

24th January 2023 By doulamaddie 1 Comment

Walter awakens before this wife this morning. He can feel her soft breath on the nape of his neck and her bump squashed up against the small of his back. He holds his breath, feeling the unmistakable movement of his daughter, stretching and squirming inside her mother. The movement wakes Persephone Continue Reading

Birth In The Year 2073: Alicia and The Municipal Birth House

2nd January 2023 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

Alicia slips out of her jeans and t-shirt and pulls on the green birthnurse uniform, corporate logo emblazoned in large yellow letters across her breast: 'MegaMaternity Inc'. She stows her clothes and bag in the locker, walks out of the staff room and down the corridor to her clinic room and picks Continue Reading

Birth in The Year 2073: Malina Has Her Baby

13th December 2022 By doulamaddie 1 Comment

Derisa pulls her scarf up over her head as she hurries down her garden path and out onto the quiet, dark street. It is frosty; in the gardens icy fronds flash white in the light of a full moon, which is partly obscured by clouds pregnant with the possibility of snow. Once again Derisa reflects on Continue Reading

Frida’s Home Birth

8th December 2022 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

This is a guest post by my lovely friend Izzy. I was honoured and grateful to be one of her doulas, alongside my wonderful friend Becky Talbot. This is long for a blog post, but if you are a doula, midwife or parent preparing for birth, I urge you to read it all. Izzy leaves nothing out, so her Continue Reading

Birth In the Year 2073

9th November 2022 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

These snippets of fiction are written to help spread the word about our campaign #MarchWithMidwives 2022. I hope to paint a picture of how the absence of maternity care universally available, free at the point of contact, is so important. I hope to show how crucial midwives who are truly autonomous, Continue Reading

The eye is the lamp of your body

28th April 2022 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

What did I not want to see, inside of me? What weeds grew, unnoticed, in fallow ground? What was pressed down into the soil of my soul? What seeds took root in the darkest crevises? What shoots twisted up towards the light? What spores grew in my muddy insides? Was it anger, self loathing? Continue Reading

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