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 [...]

Writing your Birth Preferences

‘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 [...]

What we need to know

What do we need to know to be able to give birth? If I say our bodies are designed to birth, then why do we need to prepare and do anything else?

Birth happens in the old part of our brain. This is the instinctual and primordial part. We also have a new part [...]