Birthphotolog - Completed… from Dark Daughta @ One Tenacious Baby Mama 16 May 2007 7:28 pm
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So, this is a loose container for my last birth...
An experience so layered I will never be fully able to reckon with its complete significance for me as a human being,
as a collection of voices and personas occupying the flesh of a physically grown adult, hoping to resolve enough childhood baggage to mature fully into adult one day,
as a binary gendered being,
as an Black, dark(er) African child of the Diaspora whose people made the choice to settle too far from "home",
as a fatty girl with two pregancy's worth of panniculus (thanks Navelgazer),
as a lonely yet willfully alone being,
as a mostly unparented adult daughter,
as an immigrant raised (starving no food in the cupboards) famine and (junk food) feast,
as a greying almost forty (seven plus months and counting) inbetweener (too old to be a youth, too young to be a crone),
as a queer woman living and parenting outside queer communities partnered with a hetero and questioning man,
as a matriarch ,
as a counselling (psychotherapy, not psychiatry) consumer,
as a cussing woman,
as a radical, anti-authoritarian, body-positive parenting human being so tired of oppressive social conventions, the power of corporations including the medicorp....
I was going to write some more. But, let me just say: I've rearranged the posts so that earliest labour comes first and so on.
My birthplan...
I picked the name for a girl...
The universe sent a boy...
Tha phreakin' ultrasound office scrap...
My birth story...
The morning of the birth around 7:30 before the midwives came...
The midwives arrive...
All the gang's here...
Bring it so it's brought...
Not quite a cotillion, but definitely the beginnings of a debut...
Emergence...
Immediate afterbirth...
The actual afterbirth...
Cutting the umbilical cord...
There are a few other photos I want to add like Shmolee meeting Nana Ophelia and him breastfeeding for the first time. Papi also pointed out that we haven't put up any recent photos. But this will do for now.
An experience so layered I will never be fully able to reckon with its complete significance for me as a human being,
as a collection of voices and personas occupying the flesh of a physically grown adult, hoping to resolve enough childhood baggage to mature fully into adult one day,
as a binary gendered being,
as an Black, dark(er) African child of the Diaspora whose people made the choice to settle too far from "home",
as a fatty girl with two pregancy's worth of panniculus (thanks Navelgazer),
as a lonely yet willfully alone being,
as a mostly unparented adult daughter,
as an immigrant raised (starving no food in the cupboards) famine and (junk food) feast,
as a greying almost forty (seven plus months and counting) inbetweener (too old to be a youth, too young to be a crone),
as a queer woman living and parenting outside queer communities partnered with a hetero and questioning man,
as a matriarch ,
as a counselling (psychotherapy, not psychiatry) consumer,
as a cussing woman,
as a radical, anti-authoritarian, body-positive parenting human being so tired of oppressive social conventions, the power of corporations including the medicorp....
I was going to write some more. But, let me just say: I've rearranged the posts so that earliest labour comes first and so on.
The Birth Story of Olamina Formidable-Power Akintunde Azania
sibling to
Tigana Phenomenal-Gift Sankofa Azania
sibling to
Tigana Phenomenal-Gift Sankofa Azania
My birthplan...
I picked the name for a girl...
The universe sent a boy...
Tha phreakin' ultrasound office scrap...
My birth story...
The morning of the birth around 7:30 before the midwives came...
The midwives arrive...
All the gang's here...
Bring it so it's brought...
Not quite a cotillion, but definitely the beginnings of a debut...
Emergence...
Immediate afterbirth...
The actual afterbirth...
Cutting the umbilical cord...
There are a few other photos I want to add like Shmolee meeting Nana Ophelia and him breastfeeding for the first time. Papi also pointed out that we haven't put up any recent photos. But this will do for now.