US Health and Human Services Secretary - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands to a microphone to describe who autistic children grow up to be:

“These are kids who will never pay taxes.”

Is our most true and beautiful world measured by each individual worker bees ability to pay tax?

What more interesting metrics could we use to measure the meaning of peoples lives?

How could we honour the rich diversity that exists when we explore what every soul in a human suitcase has to offer?

This is what I think about.

Who’s generating hope, who’s connecting community, who’s fostering safe attachments for the littles. Who’s caring for the animals, who’s rippling kindness, who’s exploring deep wells of knowledge, who’s advocating, who’s standing up even when their voice shakes.

Who’s finding solutions and who’s here to sit with us when solutions can’t be found.

Who’s creating art. Who’s making us laugh. Who’s making us to feel at home. Who’s feeding all the different parts of us. Who’s working hard to stop wars. Who’s regulating the individual and collective nervous system. Who’s creating good mischief. Who’s generating money and then funnelling it with intention.

And doesn’t all of that matter more than paying tax?

The time between knowing an induction is a possible / likely outcome and the birth itself - is about so much more than trying to establish labour naturally.

It is about supporting the outcome no matter which path is eventually taken. It's about realising that for women who find themselves in this position, the desired outcome isn't necessarily to go into labour naturally, but having an empowering birth experience.

Now with many years of these treatments under my belt and my own 42 week gestation birth induction story, I can say. Absolutely - a birth that's induced for true medical need can be a sacred and empowering experience.

Birthing my daughter taught me so.

I was recently interviewed on ‘No Place Like Homb’ podcast.

I talk about

• my own postpartum expereince

• reimagining postpartum / postpartum care to meet mothers with the care they have always deserved

• how we can make the transition to motherhood meaningful and beautiful