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Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer

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@smallthingsgrowing
🌱Decolonial birth+parenting for collective liberation 🌈Pakistani American Midwife 🌙Abolitionist unschooler امّاں of 3 bigs+a little Conspire w/me⤵️
  • Parenting
  • Children
  • Child Development
  • Following 1.8K
  • Followers 42.2K
  • Engagement 24.71%
  • Avg comments 206

About Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer

Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer (@smallthingsgrowing) is a Medical & health creator on Instagram, also filed under Parenting and Children. The account has 42,151 followers and 585 published posts. Recent posts average 11,864 likes and 206 comments, an engagement rate of 24.71%.

With 42.2K followers, Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Set against 1,824 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 23 followers per account Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer follows. Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer under 4 categories, led by Medical & health and followed by Parenting, Children and Child Development.

The Instagram bio for Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer runs to 21 words across 4 lines. Emoji sit alongside the words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer dates from December 2023.

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585 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer, 9 are carousels and 1 is a video. That mix leans toward carousels. Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer has built a substantial archive of 585 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 72 followers for each post published. Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer also keeps 18 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 142 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include parentingispolitical, communitycare, these, other and communityismedicine. The captions tag #parentingispolitical, #communitycare, #communityismedicine, #decolonizebirth and #noneofusarefreeuntilallofusare.

Humans need other humans in order to build secure, resilient perspectives about their own lives! Exposure to each others’ lived realities normalizes and destigmatizes so much of the human experience.

Thank you forever to for literally illustrating visions of a village that feel so accessible and not-threatening for adults and kids alike.

#parentingispolitical #communitycare #communityismedicine #communitybuilding #decolonialparenting
The way we understand birth is not neutral, objective, nor even strictly rational: it is informed by larger cultural beliefs and biases that are often rooted in narratives of misogyny, white supremacy, paternalism, industrial capitalism, and colonialism. This is a brief overview of some of the ways those narratives seep in (check out part one lower in the grid). If you’re interested in expanding your understanding of any of these myths, I regularly write in more depth about all of them and others both here and on my Substack (link is in my bio), so follow here and there! And if you’d like to understand the way these narratives may have inflected your own birth experience, I offer 1:1 birth processing sessions, which you can also learn more about at the link in bio.

#birth #childbirth #parentingispolitical #decolonizebirth #midwife
Lately I’m thinking a lot about what would happen if we turned toward connection instead of content.

#anotherworldispossible #noneofusarefreeuntilallofusarefree #abolition #communitycare #communityismedicine
It’s been a hard week. And those of us who still have souls must find each other. We must.

#anotherworldispossible #noneofusarefreeuntilallofusarefree #abolition #communitycare #communityismedicine
Things to read instead of Ina May Gaskin. 🫡

And follow along for a part two featuring books ABOUT midwives and birthwork of/in the global majority!

#midwifery #midwife #studentmidwife #birthworker #decolonizebirth
I encourage you to read Wissam Rajab’s heartbreaking writing in the New York Times yesterday in order to bear witness her strength and grief, though I recommend you find a way to break the paywall so as not to support an outlet that has actively manufactured consent for genocide.

#abetterworldispossible #noneofusarefreeuntilallofusarefree #abolition #communitycare #mutualaid
Okay, so here is part of why I find the trope of “people getting in their own way” in birth so potentially misguided: because it stems from “knowledges” gained by racist people observing birth through a lens with specifically racist aims. How did Grantly Dick-Read, the author of "Childbirth Without Fear" (by whom Gaskin was inspired) know if the African women he observed were experiencing pain? Did he ask them? Did Dr Bernard Krönig, the developer of Twilight Sleep, really observe a “gypsy-woman…dro[p] behind the band to give birth to a child back of a hedge…was[h] the baby in a nearby book and then…run at top speed to catch up with the gypsy-van?”

How do we live in these interstices and contradictions? Where is the space where we can know that a person’s emotional state is of high importance during birth, that their sense of safety needs to be supported, that the physiology of birth is directly impeded by real or imagined threats, that birth is culturally experienced and that our culture fears birth, without resorting to belief systems that have their roots in primitivism, eugenics, and racism?

I think we start by not holding people to a pedestal who have refused to even engage in the question.

The link in bio gets you to the full text of this article. Also, we’ve just got a week and a half left for admissions to Tideshifts: a Midwifery Mentorship Collective! If these are the kind of questions you long to explore in community, I invite you to throw your hat in the ring before February 8th! The applications so far have been 🤩. The link in bio gets you more info, or you can comment “Tides” here and I’ll personally DM you a brief rundown and a link to the application.

In love and solidarity,

Robina

#birth #childbirth #decolonizebirth #parentingispolitical #midwife
Happy 18th birthday to my firstborn, who does in fact know and love Sufjan Stevens as much as I do, despite my characterization of her in this piece. And yes — we know the song is actually about Julien Baker.

This was originally published in my substack, where you can read more of my long form writing - the link is in my bio gets you there.

Illustration is from the 1976 picture book _May I Visit?_ written by Charlotte Zolotow and illustrated by Erik Blegvad. (Look it up if you’d like a good cry.)

#mothering #motherhood #parentingispolitical #gentleparenting #caregiving
If you’re looking for a deep dive into this topic, with concrete examples from my own parenting community, you can find it in my newest Substack piece — the link in bio takes you there!

As someone who’s done a lot of organizing with children, I get asked “how do you do it?” a lot. At root these questions are testament to the way in which caregiving creates in us a drive to build a world that gives more care. But long work hours, limited childcare, and household responsibilities make finding time for organizing meetings, or even finding the right organizing meetings to go to, let alone participating in direct action that might get you arrested, feel virtually impossible for the average parent. This is where I think it’s important to challenge us to get back to basics about how we are in community in the first place.

Learning how to radically be in community is a potent political act in an industrialized, capitalist culture that has eroded collectivism and connection in favor of individualism and isolation, that has siloed us into “nuclear” families who are responsible only to ourselves. It is the kind of work that will get us ready for the world to come, the world we or our children or our children’s children will have to build on the remains of the unsustainable empires that now teeter on the verge of collapse, because in the end it is the only world that can be. You know the phrase, “we keep us safe?” This is the work that allows that to be more than a slogan. Because all the organizing in the world is for naught if at the end of the day we don’t actually know how to care for each other.

As kids get older, the possibilities for more “traditional” political mobilization become more accessible. But it’s always easier if you already are rooted in a community who can support you in it. In that way, radically committing yourself to the work of community building comes full circle.

Head to the substack to keep reading.

Illustrations by the inimitable Richard Scarry!

#parentingispolitical #communitycare #communityismedicine #communitybuilding #decolonizeparenting
If there’s anything I’ve learned in the last 16 years of parenting, it’s that kids don’t feel safe because you shield them from the oppression and injustice of the world.

They feel safe because you stand up against it.

Children are some of the most marginalized people in our society; they are inherently drawn to justice. Raising your baby in an environment of liberation is good for your baby!

And while linking liberation struggles to sleep is in some ways it tongue in cheek, in other ways it’s not. Most Western narratives around #infantsleep reflect the demands of colonial capital more than they reflect the needs of infants (or their parents). It’s no coincidence that the field of developmental psychology and “parenting experts” (most of whom were yt men who had no direct experience parenting) flourished contemporaneously with industrial capitalism. Most of the “sleep training” theories that still haunt us today ultimately serve colonial capitalist demands for worker productivity more than anything else, and rely on us internalizing the message, from our earliest moments, that biologically and developmentally appropriate needs for connection don’t matter or must be “trained” out of us. Colonial / industrial capitalism has spent a lot of effort fracturing kin networks into individual consumers, leaving new parents alienated from tradition and support and vulnerable to myths that further its agenda: that we cannot trust our instincts, that we are ultimately alone and only responsible to ourselves, that the solution for most things is consumption.

It’s continuing to rely on these message to currently manufacture consent for g3noc*de. Disrupt it. Your baby will thank you.

Love,
Your Midwife Robina

In this time of 🤐s h d o w b a n s🤐and 😶c 3 n s o r s h! p😶 it’s so important that you like, comment, save, and share. If you think this needs to be said - please help it be heard.

❤️🖤🤍💚

#decolonizebirth #parentingispolitical #noneofusarefreeuntilallofusarefree #midwifery

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Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer's engagement rate on Instagram is 24.71%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 4 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 58 to 1, with 11,864 likes and 206 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.

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Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer (@smallthingsgrowing) is a Medical & health creator on Instagram, also filed under Parenting and Children. Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer runs to 21 words across 4 lines.

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Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer has 42,151 followers on Instagram (42.2K). Set against 1,824 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 23 followers per account Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer follows. Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer has built a substantial archive of 585 posts.

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Robina Khalid✨Midwife | PhD | Writer's engagement rate on Instagram is 24.71%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 4 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 58 to 1, with 11,864 likes and 206 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.

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