in the book Ina May's guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin, is a bunch of natural childbirth stories. by natural, i mean women who go through the birthing proccess with a midwife. a midwife is a woman who are highly trained to come to your home and helps you give birth of your child with out using drugs and being hooked up to machines. women feel that midwives help bring the natural feeling and connection with the baby and the birth of the baby.
in the book, mothers talk about their birth stories of having a midwife and how their experience was. for some it was thier first time giving birth, and for others it was their second time and decided to do it differently. each story unique and different in their own way. for one mother, her first birth took place in a hospital and by the time she was finished, she wished it was different, and made her decided she wanted to do a at home birth the next time around. when she got pregnant again, she went about doing the natural way and she said "i was greatful to have had such and easy pregnancy and that the birth itself was not just a psychosocial event but spiritual as well." for some other women it was their first birth, and they didnt know they were going to pick a at home birth. but in the end they went with it and she said: "pushing turned out to be the easiest part-a big relif...after he was born, i was more happy than tired."
some insights i get from the book is that when you have births at home and not druged up, the women tends to be so uplifted and anxious to see their baby for the first time rather then feel loopy and druged up and can not really comprehend what is going on. they feel more relaxed and at ease. it is such a powerful and emotional experience, the woman feels aware and fufilled about her experience.
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