Feeling Disconnected From Your Baby After Birth: What Nobody Tells New Mothers

Feeling Disconnected From Your Baby After Birth: What Nobody Tells New Mothers

by | Apr 28, 2026 | Becoming, Birth, Birth Trauma, Motherhood, Post-partum, Pregnancy, Womb ecology, 💎 Kai Njeri, 🌱 Life Transitions & Thresholds, 🔥 Stress and the body

Reading time: 20 minutes You did not expect it to feel like this. You expected the love to arrive the way you had been told it would. Immediate. Overwhelming. A rush of something so complete it would reorganise everything else around it. You had seen it on the faces...
The Body Keeps the Birth: An Ecological Understanding of Birth Trauma and Healing

The Body Keeps the Birth: An Ecological Understanding of Birth Trauma and Healing

by | Apr 10, 2026 | Becoming, Birth, Birth Trauma, Motherhood, Post-partum, Pregnancy, Society & Culture, Womb ecology, 💎 Kai Njeri, 🌱 Life Transitions & Thresholds, 🔥 Stress and the body

Reading time: 17 minutes What if birth trauma is about what was left unfinished? In this article Kai Njeri writes about how the body finds its way back to recovery through a womb ecology lens. There is a particular kind of silence that can follow birth, a silence that...