Category: Solo Parent
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Celebrating ‘Motherhood’ – in all it’s forms.
To all the women waiting to become mothers; the women waiting for ovulation, waiting for a positive test result, waiting for an embryo to implant, waiting for the next round of IVF….I see you. Happy Mother’s Day. May today your mother heart be strong and patient. May you…
Ilena J Standring – Doula & Coach
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946 Days
One of the longest, most rewarding, and most fulfilling jobs I have ever had. Yes : I said “jobs” – because whilst it was wonderful and tender and wrought with hormones and body doubt and body gratitude and self doubt and self care and self neglect and ideological ambition and realistic set backs and unwaivering…
Ilena J Standring – Doula & Coach
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My Very First Brelfie (in honour of World Breastfeeding Week 2016)
I’m often torn between sharing my personal stories or not – torn from a professional perspective and torn from a personal perspective. From a professional perspective as doulas we are taught that in the name of providing non judgemental and unconditional support we must be cautious when sharing personal stories so as to keep things…
Ilena J Standring – Doula & Coach
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Caesarean Birth Recovery – 45 Tips for Healing
I’m guessing you are here because your birth story included a Csection. Perhaps it was planned, perhaps not. Either way you are now healing from major surgery. OK, I know that technically speaking a Csection is not “major surgery” because the uterus – the giver and nurturer of human life – is not considered to…
Ilena J Standring – Doula & Coach
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Caesarean Birth Recovery – 45 Tips for Healing
Now, as many clients and friends will testify, I am a great believer and fan of the body’s ability to heal itself miraculously – but given that there is so much going on for you after having had a baby, a major surgery and a major rite of passage – a little helping hand to…
Ilena J Standring – Doula & Coach
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~ In this room ~
In this room; I dreamt of you. In this room; I prayed for you. In this room; I chanted to you. In this room; I imagined you. In this room; my hands traced your protruding limbs. In this room; I grew you, you grew me. In this room; I giggled at your hiccups, I prodded…
Ilena J Standring – Doula & Coach
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I wish I had…
I wish I’d been more prepared… I wish I had read more about what to expect… I wish I’d known that I could say no… I wish I had known that I could question their decisions… I wish I’d made a birth plan… I wish I’d asked them to follow the birth plan… I wish…
Ilena J Standring – Doula & Coach
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Doulas are for Dads too!!! A father shares…
And then all the pursuing, the hustling, the meditation, the love, the fear, the struggle and the efforts to make your dream a reality is worth it….when you receive jaw droppingly lovely feedback from a dad you supported; a man of few words. “I would like to have on record that I was initially sceptical…
Ilena J Standring – Doula & Coach
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Ilena - doula, matrescence coach, course leader 