Interviews

Yasmine Ganley

Yasmine Ganley

"Going from having one kid to having two was a huge jump. Any spare time I used to have is now gone and I feel some days I really crave solitude. I am an introvert and I recharge on my own. Sometimes it can be days before this happens. Currently, this is what I am struggling with the most. Especially because I have started to dip my toes back into work again, so the pressure can build on me and I can crumble. And then there are days when we thrive, like I will catch Emily helping James down from the couch when they are playing or I watch James figure out how to peel a banana. I erupt with reassurance and a little pride. Every day is different, I try to embrace that. I teach them and they teach me, that’s something I try to remember too."
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Philipp Langenheim

Philipp Langenheim

"My parents were quite surprised and none of my friends were expecting this. By far I was the youngest father of all of them and until today there are only a few friends of mine who have one child at all. I am still the youngest father in our kinder garden, while our oldest daughter is starting school this year. It was always a dream of mine to have children at a young age and I would recommend everyone to do so."
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Nadine Richter

Nadine Richter

"Authenticity is freedom. The more free a woman is, the more powerful she becomes. There is nothing more exciting and beautiful than a free woman. That is why I think it is so important for us to find our authentic self. It is through my own growth that I have come to truly understand how necessary it is for women to reclaim their power. I am still breaking out of layers, one after the other. It’s like I have been wearing glasses all my life and I am removing the filters through which I have lived my childhood and early adult life. Gender inequality, the depth of the patriarchy, the pain of women in this world, white privilege, western world privilege, the superficiality of consumerism, the role models we are force fed through the media. Like a loud speaker in my mind. Lowering the volume and opening my senses and my heart to my inner world have taken me on a truth seeking journey."
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Shanay Rocker

Shanay Rocker

"Iylas birth made me love all things: the birth and my doula in NYC. I just thought this is such a magic job. Not knowing what it really takes until I became one, how hard working in this field is and how sacrificing. Also a lot of people I was surrounded by spoke negative about birth and I wanted to question why. Why are women so afraid of birth? Why do women always choose hospital over home-birth? I just got into exploring the whole evolution of birth. Once you explore the doula world, you find so many inspiring women that you think Wow, yes, this is where I’m meant to be. Being a single mother, I had to make this work." 
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Marta Vargas

Marta Vargas

"I got pregnant at the end of April. It is still hard for me to believe it. It was indeed a premeditated decision. My fiancé and I had been trying to conceive for over a year and a half and we had actually decided to do IVF. Five days before starting the IVF treatment I felt a bit sick and we realised my period was late, so we decided to do a pregnancy test. Not in a million years could we have imagined that it was going to be positive."
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Alicia Macias

Alicia Macias

"My placenta didn’t develop as it should have. The umbilical cordon didn’t have the proper blood irrigation and he didn’t receive enough nutrients to grow. It’s hard to know that your body is the reason why your son, who is still inside of you, is undernourished. You feel powerless, because there is nothing you can do. Everyone around you tries to make you feel better by saying that there are things in life that you cannot control. Yes, that is true. Nevertheless, for a mother, knowing that her son can die inside of her because of her own body… this is something that destroys you."
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Carol Montpart

Carol Montpart

"I think labour is an experience in itself and not just a transition or process to bring a baby into the world. There is a certain fear that society has built around women giving birth. In recent decades women perceive labour as something painful that they should get done as quickly and painlessly as possible, rather than the beautiful and spiritual act that it can be. I see birth as a team work, where you and your baby work together."
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Sarah Kinder

Sarah Kinder

"It was the worst experience of my life, but also the most empowering. It’s the ultimate sacrifice, as you actually give your life to birth life. I literally thought I was dying. In that first moment I held him in my arms I had this overwhelming feeling of awakening. It was the birth of my son, but also the rebirth of myself."
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