Who is BluebirdMama?

BluebirdMama is a user name I chose for an online pregnancy community after getting pregnant with my first child in 2005. My husband and I were living in a half-converted Bluebird school bus in my sister’s backyard. We fell in love with that bus. Part magnum opus, part ball & chain, Eliza ruled our lives, changed our lives, taught me who I am, made me who I am.

Later, during my pregnancy, I turned toward the natural birthing community in a very natural way, step by step. Starting with my lack of fear of home birth (knowing that’s where I had been born), nudged along by a university health class that talked about maternity care in the Netherlands, encouraged by a friend’s older sister who told me about midwifery care. After my son’s birth I started an online store selling birthing supplies and discovered that I could get pretty fired up thinking about the way we all come into this world.

Along the way, that combination of words began to sum up the parts of my life that defined me: my home, my shelter, my project, my partner, my community, my motherhood, my children, and my passions.