Congratulations to a mama in our recent birth class. Her first birth experience in a hospital almost ended in a cesarean. It was a classic “time’s up” scenario. I never forget to remind women that birth is a mental and emotional event and the two combined are far more powerful than the physical experience aspect in the majority of normal labors. If there are any psychological or emotional struggles occurring you can certainly expect to see a prolonged labor. Sure enough, with the first birth mom finally cried because she had ‘given up’ and ‘given in’ to the cesarean … lo and behold her son was born on the delivery bed as she was being wheeled to the OR.
Her second birth experience, this wise mother, chose to birth completely away from the scene of her first trauma. She chose a home birth with Birth and Beyond and was so positive about how different this experience would be for her and for every mom that she called A Baby Story. Yes, they chose her birth to record and it was a beautiful home birth.
I’m happy that Baby Story chose her birth but I’m more grateful that mom believed in herself so much so that she KNEW that first birth didn’t have to be that way. She KNEW she was more than capable to birth. She KNEW the practitioners were wrong and she chose to shout out the truth to the world.
Thank you ‘G’. You captured my soul with this experience, a kindred spirit. I teach natural childbirth because I KNEW I wasn’t wrong 15 years ago when I set out to accomplish my first VBAC (completely spontaneous and natural labor). Here’s to a continued wave of energy reaching out to more women. We can!
