Lune is the French word for moon, the satellite that revolves around the earth, exerting its pull upon the tides and, according to the most respectable old wives, upon the female cycle, fertility, conception and birth.
In moon represents woman at her fullest: pregnant. After that, though, comes the blue moon, the postpartum period and the first phase of new motherhood. With this comes the new role of mother (or multiple times a mother) recovery, adjustment and an entirely new life. Babylune started out as a blog about this first phase of new motherhood, as an information resource for the recovery …read more

If you haven’t written your birth story and posted it for others to read already, comment on this post and let us have a read. I think there is something cleansing about telling the story of your birth to those who have been there. At least, it helped me heal. There is a reason why I have a post partum recovery blog. I hate talking about birth itself. During both of my deliveries, for entirely different reasons, I screamed in pain during certain points.
My inspiration going into labour has always been the story of how Grey Forest Walt was born …read more