Artio Birth Care

07/28/2024

03/22/2024

Creative Content Sessions Coming Soon
Models needed for some upcoming creative content sessions at my new studio in April and May. Apply if you have a baby who is under 3 months old or are currently expecting and due over the next 6 weeks. If you are interested, fill out my contact form on my website (link in the comments).

Share on your page or tag friends who would love a complimentary session and portraits of their littles.

09/17/2023

Mommy & Me 6 week series with Heather Lawrence Hopper at The Mat Yoga Studio. Tuesdays, October 10 - November 14
Mommy and me yoga series for infants and crawlers can provide a great bonding experience for both parents and babies. Postnatal and infant yoga classes are designed to cater to the needs of new moms and their little ones, helping to promote relaxation and physical well-being. Enjoy the journey of yoga together with your baby! 👉https://tinyurl.com/3vebetc8

09/05/2023

08/03/2023

06/29/2023

PSA- they skipped a chapter in your birth book.

Or maybe, they missed the whole damn point.
Birth is not about measuring your dilation. It's not about practicing positions or measured breathing. It's not about neat stages or your carefully curated plan.

Birth is becoming one with the universe. It's about being broken open, brought to your knees, humbled by the magnitude of the sensation- and then breaking through.

Birth is meeting your humanity. It's suddenly feeling connected to every mother on earth. It's recognizing that-despite our differences and the walls of separation we create-we've all felt the same pain.

Birth is returning to nature. It is becoming a volcano. A tornado. A hurricane of strength. It is holding a storm within you. It is the highs and the crashes. Expanding and contracting. Testing the limits of this humanly form.
Birth is heavy. Grounded. You are a mountain, a planet, the world.

You are a sweaty human in a paper gown under fluorescent lights and you are the universe. You are the most sacred expression of existence. A divine portal to the magical unknown. A starship infinity. Puking into a plastic bucket.

Birth is a psychedelic trip beyond any drug you've ever dropped. It's sitting at the feet of god and then realizing that she is within you, and you are birthing her, and you are her. It is hovering above your birthing scene at a dizzying distance while simultaneously being more present in your body than any before. It is feeling people whispering down the hall and hearing the heat of the washcloth on your neck. It is leaning into the sweetest comfort of touch one moment and then recoiling from the very thought of another human close to you the next.

Birth is beyond our neatly organized words. It transcends measure and reason and logical thought. Sweating and swaying and swearing in languages you didn't know you knew.

They skipped a chapter in your birth book. So, I'll write it for you:

You are birthing a galaxy and you are the stars and you have been turned inside out and you are peeing in your nightgown. There is no need to learn or plan. You are birth. You are the source of that power.

Words & Art by Catie Atkinson

www.linktr.ee/spiritysol

06/08/2023

Ask me about time travel
and l'II tell you about how we journey through the cosmos in the length of a contraction
How we bend the laws of gravity in our astral wanderings
Sweating and swaying and traversing galaxies
To bring our babies earth side

Ask me about magic and I'II tell you how we turn a bundle of cells into a whole human being
How two hearts beat within us
How love pours from us like liquid gold

Ask me about physics and l'Il tell you how we stretch and open beyond the imagination
How we expand and contract- not simply our bodies but our souls as well
Shapeshifting into new beings
Capable of holding love beyond comprehension

Ask me about wisdom and I'll tell you
We carry eternity in our bones
The blood of our great great grandmothers and great granddaughters pulsing through our veins
Streaming down our legs
As we pull a new soul to our chest

We are our ancestors prayers
and our descendants deepest dream
We are portals to infinity
Holy gatekeepers of sacred realms
Holding life
Birthing the future

Words and Art by Catie Atkinson

www.linktr.ee/spiritysol

06/07/2023

I ❤️ HOME BIRTH!!