Blossoming Families

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Would you love to feel like a pampered goddess, knowing that every step of your journey thru pregnancy and giving birth, you will know what to do, to ensure that this beautiful phase is one of the most special and treasured times in your life?

Would you love to connect with and know your baby intimately before birth?

Would you love to experience a deep loving connection with your unborn child, know them personally, their nature, what they love and develop a loving heart felt relationship with them before they are born?

Would you love to have tools that will make your journey of parenting easier?

Would you love to access your inner wisdom to guide you on this journey of pregnancy, birth and being a parent?

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Oh what a glorious and beautiful time! During this time we can experience the exquisite beauty and joy of being a woman, expressing our femininity, appreciating and thoroughly enjoying our amazing feminine bodies.

Pregnancy and Birth can be a time of joy, elation, fun and heart felt love. Every woman innately knows how to nurture and birth her children. Yet, in our society today we sometimes don’t have that experience. Pregnancy and birth can become a very clinical time, where we don’t trust our intuition and our bodies to gently guide and lead us thru this journey.

How can we “know” what is true and right for us during this time? How can we trust our bodies and ourselves to birth life? Our feminine intuition and inner wisdom knows everything to guide us thru every part of this journey. Using our intuition we can connect with our unborn children to “know” them intimately and access their wisdom along this journey and create truth from their perspective. They can be recognised as a wise soul. A newborn child is like a blank page and having a new baby can be a daunting experience. You don’t know how they want to sleep, what will comfort them, what their likes and dislikes are, it can be a fraught time for parents and child.

However, if you are able to use your intuition, you can connect with your child before birth, they can inform you about themselves also your intuition will guide you every step of this journey. In the course you will come to know about who you really are, your special gifts and abilities, then you are well on your way to enjoying this beautiful new life together, as a wise, loving and connected family.

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Every woman knows what is “right and true” in her pregnancy and knows how to birth her child.

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How can you fully enjoy your pregnancy, time of birth and beyond?

At Blossoming Families we run a course called The Beauty of Pregnancy and Birth where you can:

• Experience the joy and wonder and the miracle of birth, rather than experiencing fear of the “unknown” in this time.
• Connect with your inner wisdom to guide you to what is true in relation to your pregnancy and birth.
• Develop a strong connection with your unborn child.
• Connect with your female body, open up and experience the amazing changes your body goes thru, in a very feminine way.
• Create the pregnancy and birthing experience that you as the mother, your partner and the unborn baby want.
• Know how your baby would like to eat, sleep, be comforted and what type of environment will suit all of you in the period from birth and beyond.

By learning to use your intuition, you will also have:

• An appreciation of your own, your partner's and your child's unique gifts and abilities.
• The ability to continue to connect with your partner and your child after the child is born.
• A strong appreciation of your womanly body, the transition from woman to mother, and the ability to be supported through this change.

Contact us now for more information on how to create the pregnancy and birth you would love.

The Beauty of Pregnancy and Birth and the Tulip

Every woman wants to experience their pregnancy and the birth of their child/ren as a goddess.

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Deep within us all, we want to experience the lusciousness, the fullness and the beauty of being a woman, in this most womanly of womanly experiences. We truly desire to open ourselves up to being in our feminine and to receive the lushness of being pregnant and giving birth. Then we can be lightly transported into the rich and wonderful experience of being a mother.

Let me explain what I am talking about by using the tulip as an example. The tulip flower evolves from a bulb, which already has all the “ingredients” within it, to bring forth this beautiful plant and flower even before it is placed in the ground. So are we. We are born with the beauty and characteristics to blossom into a beautiful woman, posessing our gorgeous eggs and the ability to bring forth life. To initiate this journey all we need is to have the will to enter upon the journey of becoming a mother.

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The bulb is then placed deep in the earth, which is a feminine fertile space – motherearth. The soil has been nourished with what the bulb needs to grow. It receives moisture; it is now ready burst forth with life it sends a shoot up thru the earth and roots beneath to anchor the growing plant. Like the bulb, we receive the fertilized egg into our uterus where we nourish our babies whilst they grow. I was amazed to look at the inside of a tulip bud; it looks very much like our uterus.

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Now let's look at the tulip bud. Look at how tight that bud is. It hasn’t opened up yet. It has the full potential of developing and maturing into a beautiful tulip blossom but it hasn’t yet. What it wants to do is open up its gorgeous petals and reach for the sun. When we are pregnant we are like this bud.

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We are ready to blossom into something beautiful and magnificent. We can receive this rich and beautiful transformational experience from woman to becoming a mother by opening up. Open up to what? To open up to this most feminine experience and receive the beauty of it all, not by fear and our preconceived ideas and notions. To open up, we must be willing to face the “unknown” of what it is to be pregnant and to give birth. We find out what is true for our pregnancy and birth thru accessing our inner wisdom that will clearly guide us on our journey. So it becomes OUR journey, not what we think we must do, or what books and others tell us to do. Our journey to being a mother is unique for each individual woman. We are the only ones that can walk this journey and experience the richness of what is true for us on our journey.

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Birth for each woman, even though we may have had children previously is about entering into the unknown, like waiting in the deep dark earth as the bulb does to burst forth with life. How can a bulb know about what is going to happen? Does it know it is going to journey to become a beautiful plant with a flower, roots and leaves? Like the bulb no one can tell us about what we are going to experience. Being willing to approach birth in this way we can open ourselves up to our truth of meeting and experiencing birth and our intuition will guide us all the way.

Our bodies have to literally open up that’s why we have contractions. That process is unique to each woman’s experience. By opening ourselves up, to the fullness of pregnancy and birth we are then more prepared for motherhood by being in a very feminine and knowing space for ourselves and our children. Thru undertaking the “The Beauty of Pregnancy and Birth” course you will receive all the tools for this journey, so you are lead by your truth and inner wisdom.

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The bulb has an intelligence within it, which knows how to do everything throughout the process from bulb to flower. We are the same. We posses, within ourselves inner wisdom, we call it intuition, so we know how to nourish our babies, our own bodies and give birth. Our bodies innately know how to birth and our wisdom guides us thru this experience and beyond what more could we want?

We can connect with our unborn children, using our inner wisdom too. Then we can develop close and loving relationships with them during pregnancy and know them before we meet them face-to-face. When we connect with them as wise “people” they can provide direction in our journey together during pregnancy and birth. Pregnancy and birth can be such an empowering experience, when we are lead by and trust our wisdom to guide us.

Using our wisdom, living from our true natures and using our creative power, pregnancy and birth can be a blossoming time full of joy, delight and richness. Look at the inside of the delicate tulip. The petals open up and each stage of development from tight bud to full bloom is so beautiful. Each stage is filled with wonder and beauty and more beauty. The delicate petals open up to reveal more feminine beauty and vulnerability. When we open up, more and more of our beauty is revealed and is experienced for ourselves, our loved ones and our families as we journey to being mothers.

There are so many different types of tulips. We are all individuals, like the tulips we have our own uniqueness and beauty. We walk our unique journeys as pregnant woman, birthing mothers and mums.

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Look at the beauty and the colour of these tulips, they are just so gorgeous. I delight in the beauty of them all and they are so wonderful to behold all together. My passion is to nurture and nourish each woman on her unique journey and to equip her with tools that will enrich her journey from pregnancy to mother and beyond. I love watching and being with woman coming into their power, enjoying the fullness of their experience of being pregnant and moving towards birth. It would give me great pleasure and I would be honoured to offer you tools that would enhance your journey that you have started on.

Much love

Wendy

Course Dates

Course: The Beauty of Pregnancy and Birth

Facilitators:

Course Information: Read Luxuriating.

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Venue: To be advised.

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Services

It is my truest hearts desire to support woman in receiving a rich, beautiful and feminine experience of being pregnant and giving birth, which will enable you to move, however it is true for you, from being a woman to becoming a mother.

You will then be able to give and receive more love and experience more of the total pleasure of being a mother for yourself and your children. I offer three different services for pregnant woman and their families during their pregnancy and leading up to birth:

• Connecting With Your Baby
• Ready to Birth
• The Blessingway

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Connecting With Your Baby

Deep down I believe every woman would love to receive the richness of this most feminine experience, being pregnant. We desire to feel our babies and feel connected to them intimately, as they develop in our beautiful nurturing wombs. We wonder what our babies are like, what they are experiencing growing in our bodies, what is their personality? We want the best for ourselves during our pregnancy, so we enjoy being healthy and fit. We want to do the “right things” and eat well so our babies grow and develop to their optimum.

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In this session I take the mother or the parents on a journey to connect, at a very deep level with their child and to receive their own rich experience of being pregnant. You will come to “meet” your baby in a very real way. You will come to know them, their personality, their needs during this journey together and they will become a guide for you on this journey. From this time forth you will be able to further develop a loving and close relationship with them.

You will gain insight and wisdom for your journey ahead. There maybe information you want to know. Like what can I do to create a healthy and joyous pregnancy? Or what do I need to do so my baby grows to their optimum health and development?

Being pregnant is one of the most beautiful and most feminine times in our lives. A lot of women do not experience this total joy in their pregnancies. During the session I “open you up” like a flower does, to receive and enjoy all the delights of this glorious time, so you can feel like a goddess. You will open up as a woman so you can experience life, your body and your self in a more glorious way. Then you will be able to receive the beauty of the journey you are travelling as a woman, enjoying your pregnancy, and moving into your time of becoming a mother. How beautiful would that be? I invite and welcome you to come and enjoy the total experience of your pregnancy.

First session: Connecting with your baby

My first session with Wendy (in my 30th week) was quite overwhelming in regards to the love and nurturing I felt from this woman who so wants to give from her heart. We all live such busy lives where a lot of focus is on others rather than ourselves. In the first half an hour, which involved physical touch and massage, I experienced such a giving and an abundance of love, I felt truly and sincerely cared for.

This enabled me to wholly experience the next process, which was about stopping and becoming conscious and aware of my pregnancy and the beautiful baby within me. Wendy led me through a meditation that allowed me to listen to the messages of my heart and to the heart of my baby. It was a wonderful opportunity to stop and check-in to my 'current reality' and see the vision ahead of me in the latter months of my pregnancy.

Since then, I have nurtured myself, had massages and swims at the beach, I've willingly 'nested', given time to myself and become very conscious about the person growing inside of me. I was also able to connect in with the spirit of my baby and gained glimpses into the beautiful person that he already is. In a very busy period, this is what my heart wanted. It was a truly beautiful experience.

Ready to Birth

This is such an enriching and beautiful session.

This session is about preparing your whole self for the transition of moving from being a woman to becoming a mother and giving birth.

Together we prepare your body, mind and spirit for birth. We create a true vision for the birth, then you will be equipped with knowledge about what will enhance your birthing experience, the days prior to birth and what your newborn and family needs will be and how to meet them.

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Birth

Giving birth is like going into the “unknown”, it can be like entering a deep dark tunnel where you don’t know where you are going, what you are going to experience and what the other side of the tunnel is like.

Approaching birth can be a difficult time for you and your family. You can all be filled with mixed emotions and thoughts about what will happen and the changes that will occur.

Oh wondrous birth, that takes us onto a journey that only you can tread. No two births are the same. How can you prepare yourself for this journey into the “unknown” but be able to be guided by your “knowing”? Only inner wisdom can inform guide you and be relied upon to truthfully and beautifully take you thru the “unknown”.

I connect you to your inner wisdom so you can confidently use it and apply it on your birth journey and beyond. We use this inner wisdom in several of the sections of this session.

Together we (child, father/ partner, mother and myself) will utilise our inner wisdom to discover what your hearts want in relation to the upcoming birth. How would you really love to birth? How would your baby like to experience their birth? Where? You connect at a very deep level to your spirits desire about birth. Then we know and create a very clear vision for the birth of your beautiful child.

After we complete this session you will be ready to birth with great expectation, joy and delight.

Connecting to your baby and knowing their needs and desires

How can you know what your child wants in relation to:

• Being fed?
• How they want to sleep and where?
• Being comforted?
• In their first few hours after birth?
• In their first few weeks and months?

We connect back to your beautiful child so you feel and experience a deep loving and knowing connection between you all. Then we ask your unborn child about their journey from this moment, being born and first few weeks of life within your family. Their wisdom will guide and inform you so you can “know” your child and their needs. This enables you to be prepared for how they want to feed, sleep, be comforted and what they want as they begin to experience life out of the womb and with you. Then you can allow yourself to sink into being a mother, enjoying your new family and this most beautiful time, traditionally called the “ Babymoon” with confidence, love and reassurance of “knowing” and being already prepared. You will be able to have more time to nurture yourself, your baby and your newly created family and receive this special time.

Don’t forget about Mum to be

What a special time you are about to enter into, becoming a mother, birthing and meeting your child, your life will never be the same again. We take time out to honour this time with you, your partner and children.

In the session I honour your journey and connect you back to the “specialness” of this time. Opening you up further to this most feminine time of your life. I pamper and honour you and prepare you for this last part of your pregnancy journey. We use our intuition to discover your true nature, who you really are, and what are your special gifts and qualities you posses and will use as a mother and woman in your new life. Then we ask our inner wisdom to reveal what is your hearts desire to have and experience in this time before birth and what will enrich you on this transformational journey and beyond. What is true for you in this time to do? What will enable you to move easily and richly into being a mother and enjoying your life as a mother? What will help you in times of need, stress that will bring you back to live and mother from your heart?

Now you are Ready To Birth and enjoy the richness and beauty of being mother and wise woman.

Gorgeous birthing and mothering to you all.

Xxxx

Image of Meg at 23 weeks, courtesy of Meg.

Second session: Ready to Birth

My second session occurred in my 36th week and again I was spoilt with flowers, scents, chocolates and massage. Wendy puts so much of her loving heart into these sessions. This is certainly not a 'job' for her but a gift she recognises and wants to share with the world.

This session enabled me to connect into my transition from woman to mother and from my husband's transition from man to father. I gained clarity and a lot of excitement around what I needed in this last month and it allowed me to appreciate how much my husband had already transitioned into a protector/provider role....and how I'd love to say thank you.

I connected into the vision of the birth and how I'd love that to be for myself, my husband and my baby and also saw what life would be like shortly after. It allowed me to be in a state of love, anticipation and excitement around this new chapter, rather than fear and apprehension, which so many people go through. I feel ready and able to experience the next month and thereafter and really can't wait for the enormity of love that we'll all experience.

From my experience with Wendy, connecting parents to the full experience of pregnancy and birth and her ability to give so much love and nurturing is part of Wendy's reason for being. I have never experienced a treatment/session like this as she gives from her heart to yours.

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The Blessingway

In society today there is little ritual to honour the transitions we pass through in life. A Blessingway honours your transition moving from woman to becoming mother.

It is a huge passage you are about to embark on. You are about to change, what your life has been up till now will change and your family is also going to change. This is a very sacred and special time for every woman. Allow yourself time to be honoured, pampered, nourished by the feminine heart and receive the goddess you are before entering upon this transition.

The session is designed individually for you and your gathering. We do this by asking what your heart what would really love to have as a Blessingway? From this your Blessingway is designed.

We create a beautiful feminine space for the Blessingway. It is usually held in your home so the energy we create is left there for you to enjoy as you approach birth. You maybe having a homebirth and the Blessingway leaves that energy for you to build onto, to create a beautiful birthing space.

No two Blesssingways are the same. Your Blessingway may include some of the following, Your favourite music, lighting of a candle, flowers, belly casting, or henna painting on the birthing mother, making a tapestry, piece of artwork, birthing necklace from beads that each person has brought to the Blessingway, poems and so much more.

Each participant usually plays an active role in the service. They may share with you their birthing story. Using their intuition they may offer their insight and wisdom into what will assist you in birth, your transition to becoming mother or wishes for your birth and new life.

A Blessingway book maybe constructed for you to keep. Here you can place your vision for the birth. How you would love your birthing place to be set-up. Then each participant records their name and a birthing wish for you, the baby, your partner and your other children. This is a lovely memento to refer to as the birth approaches or on the day, in which you can place photos or other keepsakes from the day.

You invite your most special and dear friends. Your friends take on a very important role from the Blessingway. You share with your friends your vision for the birth. They are asked to support you in creating your vision by holding the vision in their minds, this is called “holding the space”. In doing so they contribute their intention, energy and love to create what you would love for birth.

A community is created around you and your birthing family. Some people will offer to prepare meals for you and your family for their first few weeks after the birth. Others may offer to do household activities for you and the family, like shopping, washing or tidying. This allows a newly created family to just focus on themselves and enjoys each other without the mundane chores to take them out of their bliss of their Babymoon.

A Blessingway honours your way, as you move from woman to becoming a mother, whether it is the first time or not. It is beautiful times to honour your journey with your closest friends and celebrate the beautiful transitions woman go thru. It is a sacred time to honour for yourself as you are about to go into your most feminine space to birth your child, knowing you can trust your body, you have your inner wisdom to guide you and have a community of woman and friends there to assist you and “hold the space” for you the birthing experience you want.

Go forth and birth with love, support and joy.

Images from Wendy’s Blessingway with Angelina.

Gisele’s Blessingway

Wendy facilitated a Blessing Way for me with 15 close women friends this week. A couple of my friends had offered to put on Baby Shower for me, but I never felt like it was quite me - a little too much about present giving rather than true celebration.

As a result, Wendy talked to me about having a Blessing Way. As I had never heard of it before, I did a little research and discovered that it came from the Navajo American Indian tradition of celebrating the right of passage into motherhood. I had lost a baby seven years earlier who had died when he was eleven days old and as this pregnancy was such a different experience - so healthy and joyous, it felt right that I acknowledge and celebrate amongst my beautiful women friends my experience so far and what I was about to go through.

Wendy and I visioned what the evening would be like and came up with three very gorgeous and special processes. One of the processes involved going into a guided visualisation and asking the women in the group to receive wisdom that they had for my husband, the baby and myself. Once they received this, they wrote it down on paper, read it and then placed it in a special leather binder for me to bring to the birth. It was an amazing experience to hear all of my friends' wisdom and love. I also have those writings to share with my son when he is older.

Another process involved everyone threading a bead that they had gifted me onto a bracelet. This would represent their love and support and I would wear it until the moment our beautiful baby arrived. Again, the love that my friends expressed through the beads that they had especially bought for me spoke so much more to me than your traditional Baby Shower gifts.

The Blessing Way was a very special and unique experience. Wendy's gifts lie in her ability to connect women to their feminine power and to create a space that's sacred, intimate and authentic. I felt blessed and very much loved by her and my friends and I know that they too felt the same. I would highly encourage anyone who would love to connect to their friends and baby in such a special way to invite Wendy to facilitate a Blessing Way that's unique to them.