Labor in and of itself
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Yesterday I had a first time mom walk in the door and have her baby within minutes, like it was nothing...(I mean physically, not emotionally). She spent little time preparing for her labor, understood the mechanics of how her body worked and frankly just didn't have the money to spend of relaxation classes. She wasn't concerned, she had faith in how it worked and that her body was capable of this awesome journey.
Yet another first time mommie will come in, having scoured every pregnancy book, read every article, taken every class...she can hypnobirth herself into a trance in the middle of the grocery store, but when she goes into labor it will be a knock down drag out fight between her subconcious and her physical being. Or is it really? maybe she has a long hard labor just simply because of the mechanics of birth. The angle and attitude of the baby's head, the curve and shape of her pelvis, the strength and tone of her uterus. And she will have compared herself to the woman who had her baby lickety split, thinking that she didn't "relax enough" that she didn't cope with her contractions as well as she might have. She did as her body guided her. She did perfect, but she is going to think she could have done "better".
As a midwife I ask myself "how can I change this?" How can I as a midwife help her see that every body is different, that each baby makes it's own path? That each birth is perfect, because it is the birth of a child and that the journey through labor is as individual as each childs smile?
Give me some feedback, people...let me know you like minded ones are out there!
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