Dec 18, 2009 0
Labor – 30% Physical 70% Emotional
In 2001, a woman in her early twenties gave birth to a healthy, term, baby boy while in a coma. She had a vaginal birth. Physicians induced her labor with medications.
Think about this.
In spite of being in a coma, this mother’s body was still able to labor. Yes, with the help of medications. But her physiology, her uterus, was able to “mechanically” function as t should, to deliver her baby. The innate “blueprint”, the “map” of labor was able to perform without the mother being conscious or emotionally involved.
Labor is 30% physical and 70% emotional.
Since the 16th and 17th century French and English physicians have been trying to figure out how a woman’s body works. They constructed female models out of crude materials such as leather and straw stuffing to demonstrate the “mechanics” of birth to physician hopefuls. There were no doctors in America at this time in history. Midwives delivered babies. If there were any doctors in America, they were trained and came from England. They brought with them the “new science” of looking at the female body as a machine.
Labor is 30% physical and 70% emotional.
In the 21st century we have come so far with medical innovations and technology. Yet we still approach labor and birth as a science to dissect to understand it. When in reality it’s as normal as eating American Apple Pie. We don’t need to understand it. We just need to let it happen.
Here are some facts and tips to embrace towards birth:
- Birth is normal and part of life
- Birth takes time and patience and should not be rushed
- A woman’s body knows how to birth with or without conscious effort or emotional involvement
- It’s not an illness and should not be treated as one
Tips for women and expectant mothers:
- Celebrate your abilities, the potential to birth and give birth
- Celebrate your abilities as a woman to have the talent to “build” a baby within you
- What are your fears about birth? Are they real or imagined?
- Celebrate your individuality and how incredible you are
- You know how to birth – it’s part of you, just like your body knows how to breathe, it knows how to birth
Lesly 
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