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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 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 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 April 19th, 2011
A lot of you know that I recently went through a miscarriage at 13 weeks. I wanted to share with you some amazing things I have learned on my journey through the three months of being pregnant and going through the miscarriage.
Being a Doula and then getting pregnant makes you realise that it [...]
By Pernille, on November 12th, 2010 Written by Georgina Kelly, first published in Australia on The Natural Parenting website
In order to give birth and in order to passionately say “Yes”, we need to open ourselves up wide. Our womb, the repository of life, needs the door unfastened to give birth. Our heart, the core of our being, needs to be [...]
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