The Secret to
CALM & CONFIDENCE in Childbirth
With Excerpts from New Mother
Throughout my thirties I watched not one or two,
but almost all my friends enthusiastically enter the hospital in labor, having
claimed for nine months that they would have a natural birth. Yet they came out
two (or ten) days later having been induced, forced to labor on their back,
drugged, cut, and observed by countless strangers. Their babies had been taken
from them immediately after birth and they were having problems nursing.
I wondered what had gone on behind the doors of the
L&D that all of them were checking out with dramatically altered birth
stories.
In my third trimester I attended an all-day
birthing class at a store for new moms and babies. The women in attendance were
from around the world, highly educated in their fields of work, and well to do
with all conveniences of life available to them.
And yet... here are some things I heard during
class:
