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Re - Birth Birthing as it could be
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Birth has become a technical rather than an emotional experience in the same way as death – both take place within a sterile hospital atmosphere. Emotions have become controlled by chemicals rather than being expresses in a healing environment. The intimacy and emotional power of childbirth can be stripped away by the impersonal attitudes of hospital staff and technical procedures they use. In the West this depersonalisation has been regarded as progressive, however, these ostensibly progressive changes have a profound cultural impact on individuals and families. Making birth and death technical rather than significant life events is symptomatic of a deeper process of technological control over our lives. The technologisation of the twentieth century has contributed to a move away from the traditional childbirth practices – home birth attended by a midwife – to birth in hospital assisted by instruments and drugs. In this environment the baby is separated from the mother and both are isolated from the family. Instead machines, routine, doctors, nurses, and an impersonal approach surround them. from Lotus Birth - by Shivam Rachana
It may seem from the statement above, that I am not in favour of birth anywhere else except at home, in the way that each woman would wish her birth experience to be. Of course, this is not always practical, or even safe for either mother or baby. BUT, I do feel that the entire experience of pregnancy, birth and post natal, has become too technical and far to invasive. As a woman who has had eight children, and each pregnancy, birth and post natal period very different, I feel that I can speak from a perspective of having some knowledge of not being able to feel in control of how things happen. Woman have the right to say how they would wish their pregnancy and birth to be, and those wishes should hold more respect than maybe they are doing so at present. Within these pages that I am going to create over the next few months, I hope that I can show, with your help, that the time has come for us to speak up for what we feel is right for ourselves. There are many different aspects to this subject, and I appreciate each one. Anyone who feels they have something to contribute PLEASE e mail me and I will add this to the appropriate pages. Blessings Belladonna
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