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By Pernille, on April 20th, 2012 Women have birthed babies successfully for millenniums. We don’t know if they were scared. Some of them probably were. It would be pretty unnatural not to have worries and even fear of something so epic and unknown in many ways. The difference, I suppose is that women in the past, partly was part of birth [...]
By Pernille, on April 4th, 2012 Click on the image to read the full article as a PDF file
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By Pernille, on March 20th, 2012 Photo by GutekSutek – http://www.flickr.com/photos/gucman007/3222872644/
How to write a meaningful birth plan.
The birth plan has become an integral part of our modern birth culture. Most women, particular women wishing for a natural birth, will document what they want and what they don’t want for their labour and birth. But is it beneficial to [...]
By Pernille, on February 12th, 2012 The key to meaningful birth preparation: Prepare for pain, intensity and the unexpected
There seem to be a common belief in our culture today; that as long as a woman thinks positively about birth & is determined to birth without drugs, then that will give her a good birth. And if a woman worries [...]
By Pernille, on October 26th, 2011 Most couples in Australia do pre-natal preparation classes before the birth of their child. Most of us feel it is important to get information about this big event, which is foreign to most of us in our culture today. For others it is about taking time to focus on baby, in their otherwise busy lives [...]
By Pernille, on August 28th, 2011 It is needless to say that birth in our culture, is very different to what it used to be and also to what it was meant to be. We save more mothers and babies than we used to in poorer times, but we are now at a place where the medicalisation of birth, is continuing [...]
By Pernille, on June 15th, 2011 Based on a presentation by midwife and lecturer Rachel Reed. Check out her very informative website: MidwifeThinking
Birth is rarely described as easy, and in today’s culture birth is surrounded by lots of fear and feelings of danger and risk. However, for most women the safest and healthiest way to birth is a normal, vaginal [...]
By Pernille, on December 2nd, 2010 ‘You can’t plan your birth’. It might seem like a funny statement to make at the start of a post about writing your birth preferences. Birth has it’s own mysterious ways and we can never predict how in might go. That said, I want to make some comments and let you know about the [...]
By Pernille, on October 27th, 2010 In Australia today there are a few different options of birth place for women. You can birth in a private hospital, a public hospital, a birth centre, or at home. Not all options are available to women everywhere in Australia and home birth is not funded by the government in Australia at the moment. (But [...]
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