An intimate journey
You and your baby are on an intimate journey together, and soon to share the exquisite experience of birth. You know that you can be active and empowered in your birth with good support. As a woman you have all the resources within you to own your birth. Just so, your baby can actively participate in her birth. You are in this together.
Your baby is your birth partner. When we understand the natural capacities that your baby brings, you and your helpers can provide the best opportunity for your baby to be active and empowered in her own birth.
You are preparing for birth in many ways, and your baby in his swimming world is also getting ready for his world premiere. Your preparations encompass every aspect of your being; body, mind and spirit. In his own way, your baby is practicing and preparing.
Your attendants at birth best serve you when they honor the natural physiologic course of birth, and your personal journey as a woman. Helpers who understand and recognize your baby’s journey will better enable her to partner with you.
Birth is an utterly natural event, but many conditions can get in the way of its easy unfolding. We can help women and babies to partner and make a fulfilling birth possible. However many practices can get in the way of woman and babies birthing with ease. Some practices diminish a baby’s ability to be an active partner.
What is the baby doing when she partners in birth? How can we help babies to be active partners in birth? What might get in the way baby in partnering with her mother in birth?
You and your baby can partner through the intensity of the birth passage to own this experience together.
Coming up next in the MamaBebe blog: Best birth conditions for your baby