MOTHERING AND CAREGIVING.

Changing the Landscape of Care for Mothering. 

“Mother is a verb not a noun” A mothers health is crucial to the fabric of society, with them begins a cycle of intergenerational health, a mother being defined by more than the physical, a person who cares intimately for another.

There are many experiences that are encountered through the transitions into mothering and caregiving can land upon any part of us. For the physical it can lie in conception, pregnancy, in birth or afterwards. Exposing our vulnerabilities. The tumultuous becoming into mothering and caregiving is often seen through a singular and time focused lens, that divides. The physical, from the mental, the self from other, each phase from the other. Health exists in wholeness, the balance and intertwining of all the various aspects of our lives, our mental, physical, emotional, social, financial and enviromental health. It is more than the absence of disease and indeed can exist within in it. For health to be realised and felt, these elements need to be considered together, a wider perspective of maternal and childhood health seen and celebrated, humanised. Threaded together with care, care lying in action, yet also in understanding.

This is lifegiving.

12. Jan. 2025

Kim Verdebo.