Birth Hero's Journey A3 Poster Print

This A3 250gsm poster print is a mystical map illustrating the Hero's Journey of pregnancy, birth and postpartum: the most epic rite of passage. A fun and useful resource that supports physiological birth and antenatal education by looking at birth and the path to motherhood differently.

With whimsical illustrations following the traditional stages of the 'hero's journey' in mythological stories, this poster download helps us view pregnancy, birth, and postpartum through the lens of a hero's epic quest, to give a deeper understanding and respect for the transformative experience that the path to motherhood can be.

• The call to adventure - inviting us to leave the 'ordinary world' on a quest


• Meeting mentors and guides through our pregnancy: wise woman, educators - and our own inner wisdom


• Crossing the threshold as labour begins


• Facing adversaries, trials and tests


• Finding allies and our own inner strength


• Approaching the inmost cave as birth progresses, moving ever close to our goal


• During the Ordeal, we are forever changed


• The reward of the journey - our baby, the calm


• Taking the road back, to the Ordinary World, a sort of limbo where we are not yet grounded in our new role, but no longer the pregnant woman we were before


• Passing through the gateway of rebirth as we cross back into the Ordinary World, except we are not the same - we have been reborn. The heart chakra symbolises the challenge we may face to open our hearts to receive love and support in our recovery, or to our children and ourselves if our birth didn't go as we hoped


• The hero's return, as we integrate back in with the Ordinary World, along with our new knowledge, experience, and new persona as mother.

For ages I'd wanted to make a fantasy birth map with woo woo bits, and then I read about the hero's journey of birth and it seemed perfect. I knew making this that it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, but I love it. And for me, this kind of birth education is the antithesis to the clinical medical messaging we are surrounded by in pregnancy 🩷 To view the journey to motherhood as something sacred, epic, transformative, magical, powerful. 

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This poster is copyright Hannah Thomas of Womb to World Art and may not be reproduced.