As Gayle Peterson says in her great birthing manual “Birthing Normally” – so a woman lives, so shall she birth’.
This means that if you are not comfortable in yourself, but need people to tell you what to do, reassure you, and act as experts before you do anything, you are run by fear and disempowered by life. This can be highlighted when pregnant - when you may revert to a child-like state and can’t let your body do what it is designed to do.
If this is you what I have written here, and in fact in any of my work, may be very confronting for you.
If you naturally seek why and don’t accept but have to work things out for yourself you will be very happy you dropped by and started reading.
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Who are we worrying about hurting?
Perhaps when we forgot about BIRTHING WITHOUT VIOLENCE.
As a mother who used this book as my bible, as Ina May’s Spiritual Midwifery was a few months too late for my first baby, I followed as we all do, what I thought would be best. Recently, as I work with women through what happened in their last birth or to help them achieve what they want with THIS birth, I see that we could do well to look at baby – and in a baby friendly way, start to birth better.
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Using the acupuncture model, pain can be viewed as an obstruction to normal flow.
- an extract from "Living as Energy", by Heather Bruce
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Posterior position of baby is when the baby is positioned with it's back to your back so is facing upwards.
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