Jess

We welcomed our Isa Rae on March 14. 36 hours of labor, facing the mystery and sacred magnificence of birth and my body and this whole initiation into parenthood and motherhood. 🕊️🌺🐣

Our Pie Day Pisces 🐠 🥧

Grateful is an understatement. She is our miracle and we are in awe everyday at her beingness, the way she grows, the privilege to be her parents. 🕊️

This Mother’s Day, I honor into what it means to mother, and send love to all the mamas in my life and those I don’t know personally. What an incredible honor it is to mother. I honor into the true journey it was to meet Isa Rae. My journey began in 2023 with my surgery to repair my septate uterus, followed by lots of hours with my naturopath, spiritual mentor, acupuncturist, and rounding the corner with IVF and our OB team. Miracle.

Some highlights these last 8 weeks include
🌺 Breastfeeding is so rad! I love bonding with her in this way.
🌺 Seeing Julio be Dad, and soaking into the joy and gratitude to have our lil family together. He’s tending to me, baby, our home with such love, devotion and care. I’m so lucky.
🌺 Feeling so supported by our family and friends. I’ve felt so much ease because of their / your tending. All the great food, baby gear, visits, check-ins, laundry, the list goes on… Thank you!!!
🌺 Morning photos, the 3 of us rising together. And the delight we have for each other.
🌺 Isa carries such light and love ; our people are filled with her love when they meet her. She offers this gift of heart opening.
🌺 the complex tenderness and love I feel for her (especially in the first 2 weeks postpartum).
🌺 Singing. I sing to her all day long, and I’m sharing with her the songs I loved as an 80s and early 90s kid - Raffi. Pippi Longstocking. Homeward Bound. Kirtan.
🌺 Sharing the good news with all who helped us on our path of fertility. The celebration is shared with so many people who helped us.

More to come! Grateful on my first Mother’s Day 🕊️❤️👏🏼