Mieke lost her confidence in her ability to give birth after a caesarian section with her first baby. She attempted and succedded to have a natural birth second time around and became champion of mothers!
Champion of Mothers
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.
The Birth Trauma of Mothers
The traumatic experiences a mother brings with her to her labour and birth increase the levels of tensions and fear in her body, that may impede her ability to give birth naturally and interfere with her recovery post birth.
The Travelling Midwife: Preventing Birth Trauma
I am returning to South Africa after attending the annual International Primal Association Convention in The USA (and just missed hurricane Irene!!)at which William Emerson presented his workshops and seminars on healing the birth trauma that we may have experienced as babies. The healing is effected through reliving the original trauma and making connections between …
Vaginal Birth After Caesarian(VBAC) – The Travelling Midwife
This story is not for those women who choose to have an elective caesarian. This story is for those women who feel they were coerced into having an unnecessary caesarian section and feel robbed of their right to have a normal birth or at the very least, to try. Many women do not know that …
A Natural Twin Birth in Africa
An account of how Saba Douglas-Hamilton gave birth to her twins naturally according to her birth plan. When a mother is carrying twins, it is possible to give birth to twins naturally, without harm to either the mother, or the twins.
Twin Birth Plan
This is such a comprehensive Birth Plan that I have decided to post it after, of course, requesting permision from the couple who did their homework. The illustration below is a humerous take on the birth plan scenario and is not meant to imply that this mother wishes to have an epidural. In fact, this mother has …
Workshop Feedback May 2011
Our May Workshop was a delight and we spent one on one time with Leigh and Hans. Karene, our other participant, brought her curiosity, artistic flair and immediate understanding of the concepts taught to the group. We spent alot of time covering the theory around the mind-spirit-body paradigm and how the different levels of brain function …