I switched hospitals (to an amazingly wonderful midwifery group) late in my pregnancy because of my OB's
feelings on natural birth too.
Not exact matches
The saga continued with a letter to Link
on 5 July: «I congratulate you
on the
birth of your daughter Margaret... I looked forward to this with great eagerness so that you too might experience «the
natural» affection of parents for their children... We received the tools for the lathe, together with quadrant and clock... Tell Nicholas Endrisch that he should
feel free to ask me for copies of my books... Since I take nothing for my various works, I occasionally take a copy of a book if I want... The melons or pumpkins are growing and want to take up an immense amount of space; so do the gourds and water melons.
Education during pregnancy rarely has anything serious to do with breastfeeding, and since breastfeeding is perceived by most pre-parenthood women to be a
natural, instinctive thing instead of a learned behavior (
on both mom & baby's part) if it doesn't go absolutely perfectly from the first moments they may
feel something is wrong with THEM and clam up about it while quietly giving the baby the hospital - offered bottle along with the bag of formula samples they give out «just in case» even if you explicitly tell them you're breastfeeding (which was my experience with my firstborn in 2004 and one of the many highly informed reasons I chose to
birth my next two at home).
Home
birth, mama is a nurse for maternity home health company, faced opposition but support from immediate family, had some formative and transformative experiences that were precursors for a deciding
on a home
birth, devoured much research
on positive
births and home
births and empowered herself with it, lots of visualisation, hand s and knees swaying, followed the urge to moan and it
felt good, bath,
natural endorphins produce a
feeling as «high as a kite»,
felt her own baby, skin to skin bonding, ready to have another one!
If you
feel inspired to learn how to optimize a normal physiologic
birth, to explore society's and your own beliefs, to be freed from excessive fear, or to understand how your
birth can be empowering and even pleasurable, you can attend The Childbearing Society's seminar
on natural birth.
i got in the shower & let the water meet my tears & something within me said - «this is the process sokhna, open to the process, open to the process»... that was the light... my mantra became «this is the process», & i returned to the bedroom... maria took my hands, looked me in the eyes & said «this is the process, sokhna...» i knew i was
on my way... i rocked, squatted & allowed... maria checked me again & i was softening enough for maria to open the cervix the rest of the way... soon enough maria had massaged the cervix completely open & she told me to push... when she said this i filled with brilliance - i wanted to push, i wanted to
feel it, i wanted to see wayana... in just a few pushes wayana kamalah lioneye ra was born - i held her as she came out - i looked at this little one & she looked at me & i told her i was her mother... kayenn came over & i saw a baby in him... this
natural birth birthed my heart... i suddenly knew what kayenn needed, what i needed & what wayana would need... the placenta came soon after & maria helped me to bed... i really just wanted to look at my 2 babies - to stand over them & beam light, gratitude & promises of infinite love & support... i wanted a
natural birth, i had a
natural birth & it continues to this day... i am writing my
birth story
on wayana's 15 month celebration...
As important as it is to make
birth «
natural» again, we also have to stop the legacy of bad
birth stories that some people
feel compelled to dump
on pregnant women.
I have to admit that I
felt pretty proud of myself for already implementing many of the simple and amazing ideas for
natural family living experiments, and although I would love to try almost everything
on this list, when I thought of what was actually a pressing matter for me, I realized that nothing is probably more important to me at this point than preparing to have a
natural birth in May.
Charlie Rae: I went into the
birth of my daughter
feeling very educated and at peace with my decisions
on my care provider and plan to have a
natural birth in a hospital setting.
For pregnant women planning
on experiencing
natural births (i.e. vaginal
births without medical interventions or medications), a C - section almost
feels like a betrayal of everything they were promised and worked toward.
I believe it is a quite
natural part of
birth if the woman is confortable and the focus is more
on releasing then of expectations that might leave one deeply dissapointed or
feeling less «empowered».
If you're one of the many women unsatisfied with the
birth control options
on the market right now, finding a method that is effective, hormone - free, noninvasive, and completely
natural could finally make you
feel empowered in your body, hormone health, sex life, and decision to have children when you want, and only if you want.