I am Sigrid and I’m the midwife behind the name Jordmor Värmland. I live in Karlstad with my husband Oskar, our children and our dog.
In addition to everything related to pregnancy, birth and parenting – which is my greatest interest in life – I also love to spend time in nature and with animals, and of course with my family.
But perhaps most of all, and I feel like this ties into all of it, I love listening to people’s own stories and lived experiences, especially when space is held for the person sharing to do so without fear of being judged, interrupted or invalidated, but can speak freely from their heart. I believe that storytelling is an incredibly important part of our common needs as humans, and that has been lost somewhere along the way in modern society.
So who am I as a midwife? I would say that the way I do midwifery is grounded on the view that pregnancy, birth and parenting is so much more than something physical one has to get through. It is so simple and so insanely complex at the same time and it happens on so many levels within us at the same time. Not just the physical in that a child is created, grows, has to be born and then everything just has to go back to how it was before but with a child to relate to, as the conversations so often look today.
I view pregnancy as something where we are supposed to be able to turn our focus inward, be allowed to change in the inherent preparation for not only the birth but above all the upcoming parenthood.
I view childbirth as a rite of passage where not only the child is born, but we as parents too are born – into a new version of ourselves, whether we like it or not. I believe that a fundamental part of humanity is that birth should not be something to survive or get through in the easiest way possible – but that we should come out on the other side with a feeling of being able to cope with anything – because we dared to face and surrender to the intensity of birth and trust our intuition and instinct.
And I think that’s the feeling we’re meant to transition into parenthood with – a trust in instinct and intuition around our children’s needs, being able to trust that even when it’s hard to be a parent, we know we can do it anything.