Support of a woman’s right to choose to have her baby alone is a litmus test of sorts for acceptance of Trust Birth Facilitators for this reason: a Trust Birth facilitator must be an extreme birth truster. She has to be sure in her heart that she really trusts "unqualified" birth.....that she believes in the intrinsic safety of birth, itself. Trusting birth with a qualifier (if she has a trained attendant, if she is educated, etc.) negates the whole premise. If birth is only safe with a birth attendant....then which attendant really makes birth safe: Obstetricians would say only obstetricians, but what about CNMs? CPMs? midwives with no official credentials?
And we are back to the same erroneous assumption that birth needs someone or something ELSE to be safe; that birth is not to be trusted WITHOUT an attendant. That premise supports the erroneous assumption that interference is necessary.....
In my opinion, trusting birth, means that you simply trust birth!
3 comments:
it is in my culture angelicma.
My next birth I want another party there only to record the time. I will do fine on my own, thanks. My body knows what to do.
Actually, angelicma, a lot of cultures practice private birth.
The midwives stay outside the hut to make sure no one else goes in to disturb mom, and only go in if mom signals for help.
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