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Morning Star Birthing and Wellness Centre

Morning Star

Morning Star building design

Morning Star, Auroville’s birth and wellness centre, has published its 2024-2025 Newsletter. Morning Star’s team offers professional birth and women’s wellness care in a serene, respectful environment.

Embracing the unexpected

Sang

Sang first arrived at the Matrimandir Camp in 1996. Adopted from South Korea and raised in Denmark, she is a skilled and seasoned massage therapist whose global travels led her to Auroville, where she discovered a profound connection with its people and where she continues to explore diverse avenues of learning.

Better birthing conference award

Morning Star is a unit of the Health and Healing Trust, made up of midwives and doulas who support pregnancy, childbirth breastfeeding and provide women’s wellness gynecological care in Auroville.

Celebrating breastfeeding

1 Nirmala, India’s award winning human milk donor, addresses the audience

World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) began in 1992, set from the 1st-7th August, in order to promote public awareness to encourage and support breastfeeding.

Couples in Corona time

Mathilde and Andrés and their baby

As can be read in national and international news, the pandemic has put a strain on relationships worldwide, causing spikes in break-ups and divorces around the world.

Made with love

Georgia and Samrat and their son, River

Babies are hopefully ‘made with love’, arriving not just with ‘clouds of glory’ but also at times to exhausted parents. Made with Love is an initiative supporting Auroville’s newborn families with food delivered right to their home.

Twice Upon a Time in Auroville

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