"No midwife to thank, no one else to give the credit to... The birth was OURS and it felt amazing!"
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"We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down."
Dr. Michel Odent
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"Only about 15% of medical interventions are supported by solid scientific evidence...This is partly because only 1% of the studies in medical journals are scientifically sound and partly because many treatments have not been assessed at all."
Richard Smith
editor of the British Medical Journal
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"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think."
Christopher Robin
from Disney's Pooh's Grand Adventure
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"There is no breech of intimacy during those last minutes as she is being born -- how can I convey the importance of this? The privacy has enabled my body to function the way it was meant to. But beyond that is something else, that something that is beyond the mechanical. I guess some people would call it spirituality or soul. I don't know what it is. But it's what you feel when you're making love, or totally involved in creating a work of art. It's being fully inside something. You can't do it when distracted or self-conscious... which, with no one but my lover here, I have no compulsion to be. I am inside birth. I can't get over it. I wish I could never get over it, that I could never forget. I would relive those last few moments a thousand times over if I could."
"When the [waves] stopped and it was just pushing I was like, "Ahhhhh...", I had no idea that the pushing was the *easy part*!!!! The baby crowned quite a bit, and then went back in. Ocean reassured me that it was OK; the baby was just stretching me out. The head came back out again and the baby let out a little squeak. She was there for a second just like that and I was like *wow*! Then pushed her out all the way. OMG...it was soo amazing to feel that, knowing that my body works fine, and to feel a baby come out of me~"
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"I was so happy. I had my baby in my arms, and I had caught him myself. In my home, in my tub, in the water, by candlelight. It was the best feeling I can remember feeling, apart from my first child's birth. But, it was so different, because it was my husband, and me and it was so special, so right."
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"... just being able to labor in the dark, on my own, without attendants making suggestions or bustling in the background made this birth a sacred event.
If I could do this birth all over again, I wouldn't change a single thing..."
" I caught my own baby with the loving support of my dear husband.. My older kids picked the first raspberries of the season while I was in labor and fed them to me right after their brother was born. Nothing has ever tasted sweeter.
Labor was only 3 hours long. I feel great and he is nursing like a real pro. I couldn't be happier. I am still amazed of how straightforward it all was. I listened to my body and did what it told me to do. This is definitely the way birth was meant to be."
From Cate's story (yet unpublished)
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