All of us have had an experience when we’ve reacted spontaneously (instinct) to something and mostly likely avoided something or noticed something. Instinct is hard to explain.
All of us experience instinct in a similar manner. It’s a quick reaction to something, for some reason and we’re aware of doing so at the time or right afterwards.
This type of instinct is spontaneous and short-lived.
Then there’s sort of this vague instinct that can be best defined as a behavior associated to a species. For example, birds instinctively build nests. Humans instinctively roll-over, sit-up, stand-up and walk.
And when push comes to shove, when there is no medical care or no option to have a surgical birth, 100% of pregnant women will give birth guaranteed, without exception. Therefore, the end of all pregnancies ‘instinctively’ ends with some type of birth.
Let’s look at giving birth this way. Whether you’re driving to hospital, being prepped and lying on a table numbed from your boobs down having surgery or whether you labor and have a vaginal birth, both occur over a Time frame. That means each pregnant women is actively living through that Time frame.
So, what are we doing to fill time? That’s the big question. What are you going to do? Is birth going to happen to you? Do you believe you’ll know exactly what to do or how to behave, cope, manage, work through, deal with, handle, stay on top of and feel in control?
We hear women say: ‘I just seemed to instinctively know what position to get into” or ‘I had no idea what was happening”
When something like childbirth is universal and 100% of pregnant women will give birth how can we have some women insist they knew just how to birth and others insist they didn’t have a clue?
We’ll discuss how the conversation about ‘instinct’ in birth is part of the rise of blame, shame, guilt, disappointment, anger, frustration and emotional birth trauma since the 1980s when so much emphasis on ‘instinctive’ birth first made the scene.