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🇱🇧Arab Doula in NZ - Tangata Tiriti ✊🏾
🤱🏻Certified Breastfeeding Specialist
❤️‍🩹Healing Birth Practitioner
🎵 Singer, Artivist 🧶 Amateur crocheter
***Reporductive Birth is Political***

31/12/2025

🥳 On New Year’s Eve, we count down minutes, seconds till midnight.
🤰🏻Birth doesn’t work like that. Babies don’t read calendars. Babies are not late. The system is impatient.

🗓️ Remember that due dates are guesstimates, not deadlines. And while calendars, rosters, and schedules prefer certainty, physiological birth unfolds in its own time.

As we enter a new year, especially the mamas approaching their ‘due dates’, this is a reminder that waiting is not a failure, and timing is not something to ‘fix’ when mama and baby are well and healthy.
👶🏻 Baby-led birth asks for patience and trust, not urgency for convenience.

🥳 As we count down to midnight tonight, and a new year begins, remember that your body and your baby are not on the clock. Some beginnings cannot be rushed!

Happy New Year! 🥂🌺

23/12/2025

✨ It’s Christmas Eve, and this reminder matters more than ever🎄

If you’re due close to Christmas or New Year, I invite you to sit with this thought for a bit: “The Season is not a Reason for Induction”

🤶🏻 Choosing an induction can be the right decision when informed, medically indicated, and aligned with what You want.
This isn’t about telling women what to do. It’s about protecting Choice without Pressure.

🥳 Around holidays and long weekends, it’s not uncommon for inductions to be suggested earlier - sometimes from 37 weeks - simply because systems, staffing, and schedules prefer predictability. That doesn’t automatically mean it’s in your/your baby’s best interest.

If your pregnancy has been healthy, your baby is well, and there’s no medical indication to intervene, it’s okay to say:
✨ Why is this being suggested?
✨ What happens if we wait?
✨ What are the benefits, risks ans alternatives?

🤰🏻Being physically tired or eager to meet your baby is real, especially at the end of pregnancy. I felt it too, 4 years ago, with my almost-Christmas baby. Yet exhaustion and festive timelines are mot medical reasons on their own.

⏰ BIRTH IS NOT A SCHEDULING INCONVENIENCE, it’s a physiological process that unfolds in its own time!

💝 Informed consent, supportive partners and care team matter, and so does knowing that you are allowed to stand your ground.

This is the heart of the B (of my ABC) in my work:
BIRTH DESERVES RESPECT, CONTEXT, AND AUTONOMY; even and especially during the holidays!
🎁 Your body and your baby are not on a festive deadline.

19/12/2025

TRUE STORY 🥲 [reporting from the trenches]
If this made you smile (or sigh), you’re not alone. 🫂

🎄December has a way of filling our calendar at a time when many bodies are actually asking for less… less stimulation, fewer requests, more rest (even writing Rest now was autocorrected to Stress twice 😮‍💨)

🌺This is true for our female body too.
Learning about our menstrual cycle isn’t ultimately about optimising or fixing ourselves. It’s about noticing patterns, honouring our capacity, and making kinder choices; ❤️
especially around end-of-year gatherings and family commitments.

🩸The Luteal Phase often asks for clearer boundaries and simpler days, even when our follicular selves were feeling generous and unstoppable weeks earlier.

🎁Consider this a gentle permission slip to plan ‘with’ your body during the holidays.
🤔 What will you be doing differently this time around? 🍷🧀

04/12/2025

I’ve had a few new faces land here after our Tales of a City by Sea shows last week, so Marhaba / Kia Ora and ahla w sahla! 🌿

I’m Eva Maria, Lebanese Tangata Tiriti, artivist, birth/postpartum support practitioner, and facilitator of women’s and community spaces, in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

My work weaves 3 threads:
A • Art
Voice, stage, theatre, dance and embodiment.

B • Birth
Working alongside mothers through pregnancy, birth and postpartum, with emphasis on sovereignty, informed choice, and grounding.

C • Community
This year, I launched Maqām of Liberation, a women’s movement circle, and I continue to facilitate gatherings where presence, culture, and connection are nourished.

If you’ve found yourself here because Tales of a City by the Sea, thank you for listening, witnessing, and receiving Arab and Palestinian story and music.

This week, I’m preparing for our last Maqām of Liberation circle for 2025, happening on Sunday in Tāmaki Makaurau: it’s a soft end-of-year space for grounding, movement and Arabic beats and rhythms.

If you’re sticking around, welcome to my ABC’s. I hope something here resonates with you and feels like home.

Photo credit: 🌺

02/12/2025

I’m sitting with a lot of gratitude for this mahi, and for the many hearts and hands that carried it.

In Tales of a City by the Sea, I had the honour of singing these Arabic and Palestinian songs - some A Capella and some accompanied by David and Diego - as part of the fabric of the story. Songs far older than us, passed through generations, held gently in this budget-modest yet soulful production as witness, memory, and tenderness.

Shukran for writing this play into existence;
to and for the direction, dedication and care;
to the cast: Rana I love you, Hone , wise David , Mama Sherin , Bala our honorary Arab brother, the wonderful ensemble, and crew for your artistry and generous souls;
and to every person who offered support: from rehearsal spaces, time, to clothing, technical help… and Childcare… it all mattered!

Shukran to those who attended, listened, and received the story and our music.
And to everyone who stands in solidarity with Ghazza and Falasteen ❤️🖤🤍💚

01/12/2025

✨ Maqām of Liberation is back for the Final circle of 2025💃🏽
Sunday, 7 December • Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland

An Arab Hip Flow session guided by breath, rhythm, and open, embodied movement.
Women-only • All-levels • Grounding and Release to Arabic beats 🎶

This is our last Maqām of the year before we pause for summer break and return in February 2026, so if you’ve been keen to join, this is the moment.
🕘 3pm-4.30pm
📍Dominion Dance Space, 827 Dominion Road, Mt Roskill, Auckland
💝 Koha appreciated
✍🏼 Registration essential (link in stories/DM)

If you’re longing for a gentle women’s gathering, Arabic music, embodied dance and a grounding end-of-year release or an escape before the silly season… we’ll meet in rhythm this Sunday!

21/11/2025

Well this one was a first…

Another midwife and I both had Mums that needed to transfer from Kaitaia to Whangarei, both in cranking labour. Two mums who didn’t know each other at all.

This photo captures a special moment just as both mums were loaded on the ambo. It’s a “picture speaks a thousand words” shot… a “we got this sister” moment… and a photo that shows the power of sisterhood 💪
Midwives

13/11/2025

😶 I’ve been a little quiet on here and away from the grid lately because I’ve been busy with an amazing crew of humans bringing this play to life.

🥰 I’m honoured to share that I’ll be performing in Tales of a City by the Sea, written by Palestinian–Gazan Aussie-based playwright Samah Sabawi and directed by Acacia O’connor.

It’s a love story set in Gaza: tender, political, and deeply human.
A story of longing, connection, and life lived under siege.
(Mind you, that was in 2008!)
A story that feels painfully current, and necessary.

I join the cast as ‘the singer’, with a small acting role woven through the scenes; alongside the incredible Rana Hamida , Hone Taūkiri , Acacia O’connor, Bala Muralidharan, David Lawrence, Sherin Darwish, and a gorgeous support team on and behind the scenes.
Dabkeh choreography: Maysson Rafeedie
Costume design: Heba Hamida
Producer: Eloiza Montaña
Stage director: Tracey Holsinger
Cultural advisor: Rand Hazou

Here are some photos from the recent rehearsals. The flyer is on the last slide.

Show details:
🎭 25–29 November 2025
📍 Te Pou Theatre, Henderson, Auckland
🎟️ Tickets & info: link in bio

If you’re in Tāmaki Makaurau and want to experience Palestinian theatre, Arabic song, and storytelling rooted in resistance and love... this one’s for you.

Yalla, come join us!

13/10/2025

This is 🧵‘Threads of Birth’ 🌿 A 10-page pocket-companion for the perinatal season, which I created for mamas who want to feel grounded, connected, and held through every stage or the journey.

🌄 It weaves practices, sensory rituals, and gentle reminders drawn from my work with mothers in Aotearoa and from my Levantine & Lebanese origins.

‘Threads of Birth’ 🌿 is now available on my website as an instant digital download which is A5 print-friendly. 🖨️
👌🏽Short, warm, affordable 👉🏽Perfect for mothers-to-be, and anyone supporting a new family.

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