I feel that women and their partners do much better with
privacy and intimacy during the birth process and that, my role is to sometimes protect that
privacy and intimacy first of all by educating them that that might be really important and to talk
about you know the effect both positive and negative
about um, support during that time can be or even just letting people know hey, we're in labour, the Facebook kind of thing but you know
keep it
quiet,
keep it down, don't fritter the energy away by drawing other people to it or drawing the expectation that something's happening rather than just letting something evolve... I think guarding the space by
keeping the space as calm and
quiet and private as possible is key and giving people tools to do that during the prenatal time to deal with over eager family members or friends.