A Woman’s Right to Choose

I have finally made peace with my birth story. It’s been a long journey. I know that my story is not the stuff of which natural birth fairy tales are made. Although I did (unknowingly) labour, and had the support of a wonderful doula, my birth was not ‘physiological’. I had a C-section that… Read More A Woman’s Right to Choose

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 Rumbi Goredema Görgens4 Comments

No hood like this mamahood

The first year of motherhood. May I be so presumptuous as to write about it from within, before I have fully emerged, one-year-old and smashed (sugar and gluten free) birthday cake in each hand? I. The pulsating loneliness of it. I don’t quite know how to explain it. You won’t be alone, ever. If you’re… Read More No hood like this mamahood

November 18, 2015April 21, 2017 Rumbi Goredema GorgensLeave a comment

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A Woman’s Right to Choose

No hood like this mamahood