Megan Hoosan was 15 when the first of her four children was born. Now she now teaches other Aboriginal women how to raise independent kids with strong links to their traditional culture.
We just jumped in with night patrol, who were cruising past, and went straight to the maternity ward. It was a false alarm, so they sent me back home.
It makes me so happy when my kids start speaking in Arrernte because they are learning the language of their old people. They decided to send me to my aunties in Borroloola, right up in the north of the Northern Territory ."I love being a mum. I have company and someone to love every day." Part of the reason I wanted to be part of the In My Blood It Runs film is to show Australia what is happening to our children and parents with schools.
I am now helping other young mums, some of them teenagers like I was, to learn to look after a newborn baby: how to burp them, walk them around, speak language to them, know when to smoke them to keep bad spirits away, help them get fat and healthy, know how to lay them down properly, keep them up to date with immunisations and appointments, learn how to bath and breastfeed them.
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