A friend of mine borrowed my copy of "Birthing from Within" and so I have not read it over the past year - waiting in anticipation to get the copy back. I forced myself to finish Suzanne Arms's "Immaculate Deception" (though it's a great book) so I could start reading my newly returned Pam England book. (My husband recons you can't start a new book before you have finished the previous one). Anyway, I am completely hooked. I am craving information and there is just such a lack of education available in South Africa. I have resorted to reading course material from the WHO website - thanks WHO :)
Anyway I a feel like I have started a journey and I am wondering if all this education is a good thing or a bad thing when it comes to my babies. I am afraid I am going to be too much "in my mind" and focused on the birth experience than the final result of a baby. If I am concentrating so much on the process and perfection - can you really say it's still natural birth, primal birth?
About Me
- Mella
- I'm a South African girl, twenty three years old, passionate about moms and babes! I love to read, bake cupcakes, scrapbook, tweet and go to births!! My husband is the best in the world. I feel blessed.
2 comments:
Thanks for blogging about this, M. As Ina May Gaskin says, birth is about letting your inner monkey do it. Like you, I enjoy the process of reading about birth, of intellectualising it and politicising it, but we also need to make a space for the animal experience of it. I think, as long as you're having this conversation - with yourself (in your blog), with others (who read your blog or talk to you) - then you've already started interrogating what it is about birth that we need to get to grips with... the animal, or the intellectual? Both are worthwhile, but it depends on where you're standing in the birth room at the time. Are you the birthing mama, or the doula/midwife?
I think it's wonderful that you are educating yourself about something that you are obviously so passionate about Milly. I definitely don't think it's a bad thing at all :)
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