The second birth is generally easier: the hip joints are more flexible, the body is familiar with the process, the body is now experienced in the release of just the right amount of hormones and chemicals to release and everything usually happens more smoothly and helps to heal any residual trauma felt from the first birth experience
Tag: Natural Birth
Spiritual Birth posts about natural birth – everything you need to know about natural birth. Natural Birth is medically safer for mothers and babies alike, these articles on natural childbirth examine how childbirth affects the spiritual, emotional, mental and physical parts of our being.
Calm Birth: The Birth of Jai
He was not hurried or co-erced into this world, he was not meddled with, other than a deft movement of the fingers to unwrap the cord. The cord was not severed until it had stopped serving its function.
Pregnant? Prepare for Labour and Birth
When a woman understands the mechanics, process and phases of labour she is able come to the labour with less fear and realise that labour has a beginning and an end. Information about the different stages of labour, and how the body may feel as the labour becomes more intense helps the mother stay calm. A loving relationship with the father of the baby and tender exchanges of love and touch during the labour facilitate trust and the optimal release of ‘oxytocin’, the “love” hormone.
Natural Birth Preparation Workshop in KZN: 7th & 8th May 2011
I am presenting another Spiritual Birth Preparation Workshop on the 7th and 8th of May 2011 in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal for a few interested couples. If you are keen to participate, please get in touch via this…
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.
The Travelling Midwife 2011
I set off on my road trip to Kwazulunatal after the spectacular birth of Savannah to Tatum and Damien at 22h30 on Sunday evening. Tatum’s mother had given birth to all her children by caesarian section and her sister had also given birth by caesarian section. Tatum was desperate to trade this legacy for one …
Why Natural Birth?
I see clients, on a weekly basis, imploring me to help them have a natural birth after one, two and sometimes even three caesarian births. They speak about the nagging sense of loss, the feelings of failure, the terrible pain afterwards, the struggle to hold and feed their babies, the depression that lasts for months. I have women who come to me in Cape Town from as far afield as Limpopo and Namibia, because they have heard that there is a midwife and a doctor in Cape Town who will help them give natural birth. When I ask them why they want natural birth so badly, they tell me various themes.