“The first intervention in birth that a healthy woman takes is when she walks out the front door of her home in labor. From that first intervention, all others will follow.” -Michael Rosenthal, OB/GYN
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Category: Birth Quotes
Labor
“Labor is the closest a woman may ever be to the threshold between life and death while she is still very much alive.” -Anne Frye
Continue reading »Midwife
Part of being a midwife is learning to midwife yourself
What I Learned at My Last Birth
Birth takes a woman’s deepest fears about herself and show her that she is stronger than them.
Continue reading »A Midwife and Her Patience
I read this somewhere about midwives patience when attending birth:
Midwives have skilled hands and know how to sit on them.
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Natural is Natural
Many Western doctors hold the belief that we can improve everything, even natural childbirth in a healthy woman. This philosophy is the philosophy of people who think it deplorable that they were not consulted at the creation of Eve, because they would have done a better job. (Kloosterman 1994).
Continue reading »Rediscovering Midwifery
“Unfortunately, the role of obstetrics has never been to help women give birth. There is a big difference between the medical discipline we call “obstetrics” and something completely different, the art of midwifery. If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women.And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.”
-Michael Odent, MD
Continue reading »Ram Dass
Ram Dass has this to say about a garden and life and I’d like to tack Midwifery onto that quote: “Just as in a garden we do not ‘grow’ flowers, rather we create the conditions in which flowers can grow.”
Continue reading »Why Birth Matters
How we birth matters!
What our babies experience shape who they are.
What a mother experiences at the very transition
from maiden to mother changes her.
Gentle, natural birth unlocks something primal at our very core
and makes mothering easier and families stronger.
If parents would only realize that every single decision they make
from conception onward influences the outcome of their birth,
they would reclaim what they didn’t even know was lost.
-Kim Wildner, Mother’s Intention
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Eleven – From Tao Te Ching
Thirty spikes share the wheel’s hub;
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It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore profit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there.
Undisturbed Birth
An undisturbed birth will help you be the mother that your baby needs you to be.
Continue reading »Having a Child
Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone
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Powerful Truth
If you bring forth that which is within you,
what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you,
what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
-Gospel of St. Thomas
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