PREGNANT NOW? To know why you’re thinking the way you are while pregnant now, you do need to know the past a wee bit so you can actually choose how you would like your ‘other’ to participate PARTNER/OTHER? You are the most confused! BACK WHEN; Throughout Time and...
To understand our present Childbirth conversation and how it impacts YOU, we have to understand the ‘ideas, words, actions, perhaps systems and policies’. We have to evaluate whether the first three are actually leading to the goals and desired results. The idea and...
Primarily Women are responsible for the chaotic childbirth message to each other and to ourselves. What is our goal as Women? 1) Individually this is simple. Each of us wants a safe birth and for our baby and ourselves to be healthy. We also want a positive birth...
Our New Zealand registered not-for-profit, Charitable Trust is doing this You and Childbirth Series because the conversations in childbirth started to get crazy in the early 1980s. This has led to the huge rise of shame, blame, guilt, disappointment, anger,...
This is the last group of 6 childbirth interventions that Natural Birth advocates believe we need to avoid in order to achieve a ‘natural’ birth. In total there are 30 interventions we are meant to avoid in order to achieve a certain ‘type’ of birth. That’s...
Here we go again … more ‘interventions’ women are supposed to avoid in order to have a ‘natural’ birth. It’s exhausting isn’t it? We got here by intentional ‘ideas’ and ‘words’ and ‘actions’ and even ‘systems’ and ‘policies’. We have a HUGE problem in how we, Women,...
