Fear of Birth

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 [...]

Saying the Great YES, a challenge of birth

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 [...]

Facing the fear

I wanted to write something about fear. Today at BaBs (Birthing and babies Community group) our topic was ‘Ceasarean, what is it, and how to have a good one’. And no pregnant women turned up! So we were sitting there with three women, two who had their babies at home and one who came especially [...]