Birth is.
A laboring woman is an elemental force of nature. She is a hurricane, a placid lake, a raging storm, a wild fire, an earthquake, a rushing river.
Do the moon and the stars have a philosophy? They simply are. And so it is with childbirth. Birth is.
We at Renaissance Woman Midwifery are often asked our philosophy of childbirth. Here's our short answer: physiology trumps ideology every time.
We at Renaissance Woman Midwifery do not hold with hyphenated childbirth. There is only childbirth; it is enough.
Certainly, please do take your Bradley class or Lamaze or Hypnobirthing - they all have a contribution to make. As for the latest, Orgasmic Childbirth - not in nearly thirty years of midwifery practice have I seen a woman yet who did not have a total body experience. You will too.
Guaranteed.
When it gets down to the get down, you are going to do whatever it takes to birth your baby into your eager arms.
You do not need to be empowered through childbirth. The very idea!
You are already powerful beyond words; this is the mystery, the majestic core, the essence, the elemental force revealed from within each and every woman giving birth. And it is a glorious truth.
Childbirth may not always be pretty, but every birthing woman is gloriously beautiful.
Gloriously beautiful, I say.
