Laughing Moon Midwifery

The art of midwifery embraces many lost but powerful practices.

The art of deep listening, of holding the edges of liminal space so that you can go through the center and back. The beautiful skill of palpating a round, swollen with life belly…hands like eyes peering into the uterus telling the story of how a baby is positioned inside. The forgotten importance of walking alongside someone while they are doing hard work but not trying to do it for them, and the hanging sling scale….a baby wrapped snug in soft fabric, suspended by a brass scale, toes peeking out as everyone holds their breath anxiously awaiting to hear the weight of this new little human.

Midwifery weaves human stories, the sacredness of life, and the magic of science into an art as old as human creation. And the parts of it are just as beautiful as the whole of it. 📸 :