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Pregnancy and childbirth

Here you’ll find all the content about pregnancy and childbirth – the journey into pregnancy, the experience of pregnancy and the changes it brings, physical and emotional preparation for birth, and processing birth afterward. You’ll also find articles and content addressing pregnancy loss and the pain it brings.

"זאת תורת היולדת": מקורות, התפתחות ומעשה – הדרכה עיונית ומעשית להלכות טהרת יולדת - מאמר מאת הרבנית שרה סגל־כץ | Rabbanit Sarah Segal-Katz

“This is the Law of the Childbearing Woman”: Sources, Development, and Practice – A Theoretical and Practical Guide to the Laws of Purity for a Childbearing Woman

The laws of purity for postpartum women are in some ways similar to the regular laws of niddah, but not completely so. The purity laws concerning a woman who has given birth are set forth in the Bible, but applied halakhic rulings are very different.

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משגב יולדת, שיר מאת: שרה סגל־כץ | Sarah Segal-Katz - The birthing mother's stronghold

New Mother’s Retreat

I am full but emptiness will still gust through me I am full but longing will drip a moment before the new mother’s retreat.

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לידה מתוך הבית - מאמר מאת הרבנית שרה סגל־כץ ואדם הנקינד כ״ץ | Home Birth - Sarah Segal-Katz & Adam Henkind Katz

Home Birth

Since our first conversation we weaved a dream: to give our future children and ourselves natural births, at home.

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כשאמרת, לא סיפרת - שיר מאת שרה סגל־כץ

When you said, You didn’t tell

When you said, In sorrow you’ll bring forth childrenYou didn’t tellHow you can split with joyTo be a channel into the worldTo overflow and grow with heart’s ease. When you said, He shall rule over youYou didn’t tellThat rule was also given to babesWho tread the daysAnd the cleaving of one fleshThat is all honeycomb. […]

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פתיחה, שיר מאת: שרה סגל־כץ | Dilation - poem - Sarah Segal-Katz

Dilation

Grasping the gates,Hunched overFielding cries after the pain caught within herSomething is opening.How she waited for that very flooded heel,the coming of the pains in her spineAnd now dilationFrom one end of the world to another she’s burstingAnd only thus turns about on her hingeSo she can turn back afterWhen the living flesh will be […]

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