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TRUSTING YOURSELF TO TRUST BIRTH

 

Wholistic Belief System:

• Birth works.

• Babies do come out.

• "Birth is as safe as life gets." -Harriet Hartigan

• The body has a wisdom and knows how to birth.

• There is an inherent wisdom in each woman - to know how to birth her baby.

• "A Mother's body knows how to grow a baby and knows how to birth. Labor can stop and start, follow its own rhythms of speeding up and slowing down." -Robbie Davis-Floyd

• The mother delivers the baby.

• You already know how to birth your baby.

• Each woman is unique and each birth equally unique. It is part of the perfect plan to give birth.

 

Medical Model Belief System:

• "Pregnancy is a medical condition." -Suzanne Arms

• "Birth is too dangerous and risky to let it occur naturally." -Suzanne Arms

• "It doesn't matter what kind of birth it was, you have a healthy baby." -Suzanne Arms

• Birth is unsafe.

• We have to control birth.

• Why should women have to suffer the pain of childbirth.

• "Birth is normal, natural and inherently dangerous." -Robbie Davis-Floyd

• "Birth can be an emotionally satisfying experience for the woman as long as the emotional needs of the mother don't interfere with fetal safety." -Robbie Davis-Floyd

• "Pregnancy and birth is inherently pathological." -Robbie Davis-Floyd

• "Adhering to time charts in labor is essential for safety." -Robbie Davis-Floyd

• "Labor pain is problematic, unacceptable." -Robbie Davis-Floyd

• Some medical intervention is necessary in all birth.

• The physician delivers the baby.

• "Our prevailing paradigm views birth as a 'medical condition' that must be controlled and managed to 'safely' and efficiently 'deliver' a 'product' called a baby from a 'vessel' called a mother." -Suzanne Arms