when you begin to live a simpler life, there seems to be a trend toward home-everything. homemade. homeschool. homegrown. homebirth. it isn't a coincidence, it is the greater force of growing from within, from our homes and from our souls.
when we found out that we were going to have a baby, we immediately looked at our homebirthing options. it all seemed so new to us, but what wouldn't, it was our first baby. if we were mainstream, we would've scheduled an appointment with our doctor before even conceiving for a pre-pregnancy interview, then we would have gotten the go ahead from the doc and then we would've tried to get pregnant. once most couples think that they are pregnant, they need a doctor to tell them for sure. huh??????? women are losing what we have been gifted with and that is intuition. pregnancy and birth have become so mechanical that most people have no intuition when it comes to one of the most beautiful and natural acts that a woman's body is equipped to deal with.
our decision to have a homebirth was an easy one. i was a low risk pregnancy and the thought of bringing life into this world in a hospital was out of the question. we chose to birth in our own home. when the day came, we were already where we needed to be and we waited for the midwives to come to us. what a wonderful way to introduce our baby into the world.
she was born within 4 hours and all went well. there was nobody there to whisk her away before we got to hold her in our arms. it was all so blessed and so slow that it felt like a lifetime. we shared hours together, alone with our new life, quiet and peaceful. she was surrounded by love and bliss. no monitors, no needles, no bright lights and no noise, just love.
this is so not true for the majority of children born into this country. the experiences are generally not happy nor blissful and it shows in the children. how we are conceived and how we are born set the stage for how we are. we truly believe that conscious conception and homebirths make loving and more centered children.
we aren't alone in our beliefs though we are a minority in the states. we recently came across a documentary, "the business of being born". it is a wonderful story of many homebirths and many conventional hospital births. they speak to midwives, doctors, health professionals, educators and families on their views of birth. it is beautiful, it is saddening and it is showing how the medical community is failing to support women in birth. take a peek and share this with others.
for anyone who is pregnant or thinking of childbearing, remember, pregnancy and birth are not medical conditions, they are a gift, one of the most beautiful acts that a woman's body can perform.
2 comments:
I completely agree with you.
When people ask why my little guy wasn't born in a hospital I tell them that I wasn't sick.
12 pounds and I walked out of the birth center and was home in five hours.
Personally, my birth was at a freestanding birth center. Rhode Island, where I was living at the time, has banned homebirth in favor of scary medicalized birth.
Congrats on your wonderful birth experince!
congrats to you guys...bringing life into this universe by the best means possible.
oh, and booooo to RI. what's up with that? and we thought that MA is a stuffy state.
we need more families to speak up and get the word out. BIRTH IS NORMAL. only 3 mammals need 'help' birthing, dolphins, elephants and humans, and i bet that the first two don't need monitors, doctors and pain killers to birth. huh!!!!!!!!!!!
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