Tending Families from Womb to Tomb
WellMama is a multi-generational community of birth keepers and wisdom weavers from all around the world.
Birth is our first threshold and rite of passage into life. How we experience birth, as a baby, a mother, a parent, as a family and as a community imprints upon us for the rest of our lives.
Our mission is to nurture women, mothers, babies and their families; honouring and tending rites of passage from conception through pregnancy, birth, postpartum and beyond.
Greetings - tending the soul of the village
WellMama is offered as a portal of nourishment and is dedicated to women, birthing people, their families and the future generations, honouring the innate wisdom of humanity. This website serves as a place and space of mutual reciprocity.
With the gifts of our hearts and hands, we share skills, knowledge, experience and wisdom, offering birth packages for the childbearing year and education and training to tend the cycles, rhythms and tides of life.
Safe spaces and places for pregnancy and birth are becoming rarer. We feel called to create another story, to weave another web, one that may hold our people in these times of change.
This is the moment to share, remember and recreate safe spaces for birth, for life and for death, places where those who chose can journey unhindered through these rites of passage.
Offerings
WellMama offers holistic health services for the whole family through all stages of the procreation journey and beyond:
• Conception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum care
• Antenatal and postnatal circles, information and support
• Miscarriage, abortion and stillbirth tending
• Doula/Birth keeper, traditional midwifery, & community carer education and training
• 1-2-1 mentoring and supervision
Diversity Fund
In the name of sisterhood, decolonising birth and bringing balance, diversity and inclusion into our birthing and birth attendance spaces, we have made 4 scholarships available for The Silent Birthkeeper course.
There are some incredible people out there who are working diligently on their paths to birthkeeping and changing our world for the better. Not all of us have had the same starting point and we would like to acknowledge that and create a sense of equality and support in our circle, whilst celebrating our diversity!
If you feel that you would like to support a sister on her path to birthkeeping, you now have the opportunity. Let’s fill up the pot so that we can welcome women of all walks of life to deepen their path and work together for peaceful, empowered birthing spaces in every socio-economic environment.
Peace on Earth begins at birth, and peace belongs to everyone.
“You were kind, gentle and non-judgmental during my pregnancy. I felt that my antenatal care was missing the emotional aspects, which you helped me think about and address.”
— Mama from Bristol