the NewHuman story...

When I gave birth to my first child in 2023, I spent a lot of time preparing for birth. It was something I had a lot of curiosity around because my mother had been a midwife trained in the UK (some of the best!). She died 8 years before I got pregnant and the experience of pregnancy and culmination of childbirth provided me with a path toward feeling closer to my late mum. It helped me process grief in a way that brought healing, not darkness. I had no idea the power that was possible and the impact birth would have on parts of my life outside of mothering. It changed my life story in a way I could never have expected. This sparked deep curiosity in how our perspective and our emotional trajectory can change depending on how we process & integrate our experiences into our personal narrative. I began to notice that we often tell stories during big life changes, accomplishments and endings. Every time we transform, we reflect on the stories that got us to these moments of transformation.

 

My birth story has parts that were hard, parts that were emotionally and spiritually transformative, parts that were funny, parts that were not in the plan. As time goes on, I become more aware of how all parts of my birth experience have influenced different areas of my life. Birth is a big part of my story now, a reference point I return to often when navigating the continued emotional journey of postpartum and beyond.

 

I'm someone who is surrounded by community, I have really close friends & family and access to paid resources. Yet, I still found it hard to find one person who would just listen to me talk about my experience, unedited and uninterrupted. Someone without personal attachment to or opinions of my experience. So it has become my passion to help birthers to tell their birth stories, for the sole benefit of themselves. A neutral, quiet listener.

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I am the descendant of The Dancing Nurse (my mum's nickname) and I'm now a parent myself. Both of these honours have taught me the significance of having and being a descendant. Through NewHuman, I am keeping my mothers legacy alive in a way that  represents my personal passions within the same field.

 

The name NewHuman is meant to to represent the new human you are bringing into the world: your baby. And the new human you become as a birthing person: a parent and the new identity you will inevitably adopt. Whether it be a major or minor shift, it’s different for everyone.

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My mum used to say “what goes around comes around.” This is me heeding the call, jumping in to participate in one of the most monumental steps in the circle of life: birth.