10/05/2026
One whole month of you, Willow Mae Elwood 🌳
We named you Willow because it symbolises grace, resilience and the ability to bend without breaking. Mae for warmth, gentleness and motherly love. Elwood, meaning “elder tree forest,” which is deeply connected to us- to nature and grounding- the heart behind Emma of Earth. Even more special, the business existed long before I ever met Craig and I never realised just how deeply his surname would one day intertwine with the brand and life we would build together. Our girl arrived two weeks late after a pregnancy that tested me in every possible way.
Months of hyperemesis, hospital visits, IV drips and medications just to survive the days. We planned and dreamed of a peaceful home birth but your arrival became a category 1 emergency c section that changed everything in an instant. You were born and then taken from us almost immediately. We were separated at birth while you spent your first day and a half in NICU. While you recovered beautifully and made everyone fall in love with you instantly, I began a recovery journey I never expected. From the very beginning, there have been moments that felt bigger than coincidence.
When I signed the consent form for my emergency c-section, the clock read 2:22am. Then after everything- the trauma, NICU, surgeries and hospital walls, we finally left the hospital in a random taxi and Taylor Swift’s Willow started playing from the driver’s playlist. Not the radio. Not prompted. Just your name filling the silence as we brought you home. There has been something deeply spiritual about you from the start, like little reminders that even in the chaos, you were always meant to find your way to us 🩷