On October 30th, I gave birth to a new baby boy. He was born at home in water, my fourth homebirth, but my first waterbirth (his birth story is available here). On the full moon of his one week "birthday," we took him outside for the first time in his whole life--to meet the world, to feel the fresh, cool air, to be introduced to the moon and the Earth as a member of our family. Here is an outline of the very simple ceremony of welcome we held for him. While we did this with just our other children present, it could easily be expanded to include additional guests.
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Wangari Mathaai describes a ritual of introducing a baby to the land in Unbowed.
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Lovely! For you next (hee he) baby, you might add "placing the child on the earth" which is part of many earth-based traditions, o
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Thanks, Carol! We did the feet to earth ritual with the baby before this one when she turned one month. For the full moon, we were