Good Midwifery | Spiritual Birth

Birth in South Africa The Travelling Midwife March 18, 2011April 14, 2012 by Marianne Littlejohn

The Travelling Midwife: Busfare Babies

Women need minimal interference, love, patience and a watchful presence when they are giving natural birth. This is the Art of Good Midwifery. Busfare Babies provides the women from Bodium village with just such care.

Women need to prepare for natural birth in every aspect of their lives, including the spiritual, emotional, mental and physical areas of their being. A woman deserves the right to choose her companions as well as where and how she will give birth to her child.

Pregnancy and birth are normal life events for most women. To this end, interventions should be kept to a minimum wherever possible. A baby who is born gently and welcomed by warm, caring parents receives the best possible start in life.

Women who are well prepared in their minds, bodies and spirits can experience birth as a profoundly moving and empowering event.