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5 Tips for a Calm Birth as a Highly Sensitive or Neurodivergent Mother
Amelie Derooij 21/10/2025 Amelie Derooij 21/10/2025

5 Tips for a Calm Birth as a Highly Sensitive or Neurodivergent Mother

Birth can feel intense for highly sensitive or neurodivergent mothers - but sensitivity can be your strength. In this article, discover five practical, evidence-based ways to prepare for a calmer, more confident birth.

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“What if I poop in the water?”
Doula Amelie Derooij 04/09/2025 Doula Amelie Derooij 04/09/2025

“What if I poop in the water?”

Pooping during a water birth is normal, healthy, and safe for both mother and baby. Midwives manage it discreetly, so you can stay focused on birthing with confidence.

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Exploring the Emotional Benefits of Water Birth
Doula Amelie Derooij 03/09/2025 Doula Amelie Derooij 03/09/2025

Exploring the Emotional Benefits of Water Birth

Water birth offers more than physical comfort - it creates emotional safety, privacy, and presence, allowing mothers to soften, surrender, and feel empowered.

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Land of Mothers

A sanctuary for doula care and maternal celebration that is inclusive and welcoming of all. I aim to humbly support all persons and families, with an open heart and open mind. I serve Purmerend, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Zaandam, Hoorn and near surroundings.

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View fullsize I am grateful for having been part of this 2025 silent birthkeeper cohort of @truemidwifery with @ehrhardtruth and @birthjunkielana as space holders and facilitators. 

I joined a bit more than a year ago to hold myself accountable to my path and lea
View fullsize Community. Motherhood. Sisterhood. Support. Fun.

When you can’t find what you need - you create it.

I might not need it as much now, but as a mom of a 10-year-old, I see early motherhood with new eyes - its tenderness, its exhaustion, its dee
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View fullsize The more I practice with the rebozo, the more I witness its quiet, ancient magic.

After birth, when a woman has opened so fully, body and soul, there’s often a deep need to be gathered again. To be held, contained, wrapped.

During a closing t
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View fullsize The world of birth and doula work is very women-led, and sisterhood is deeply needed - because women need women in those rites of passage and transitional moments.

But we also need more space for men.
Behind me as a doula, I have a partner supportin
View fullsize When Umi came to Earth and crawled straight to my breast, I was in awe.
This surprise baby, born peacefully in my own bed on a cold, sunny morning in Cape Town- with two midwives and a doula by my side - had my whole heart.

Umi loved to eat, and lat
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And in some ways, it was- I knew the benefits, I believed in it.
But it didn’t come easily.

The pain felt like needles. Kenzo couldn’t latch properly - his tongue was tied. Every feed hurt, but I

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