22/02/2026
✨ Following in the footsteps of Michel Odent ✨
While we all know how the realities of the birth scene have changed in recent decades due to the level of awareness of women and what we consent to and ask for, as well as cultural conditioning and the design of the system/industry, it does not mean that the current “natural birth” movement is automatically free of misconceptions.
We find ourselves needing to rediscover what birth is and what it is not, to realize that home birth and natural birth (as in physiological, normal, undisturbed — the way it was long before we started interfering with it) are not an alternative, but our innate default, designed for the good of mother and baby, the family unit, and humanity as a whole.
I have explored the ideas of many different authors and movements in the “natural birth” community, all influenced to varying extents by tradition, new cultural conditioning, and paradigms in the light of modern practices, current trends, and interpretations.
The truth is that none of that changes the essence of birth. So the most important question remains — how do we get to the place where pregnancy and births are cherished events, where women have such amazing births that they want to experience them again and again, where babies are born in the continuum of love and receive what they can expect by birthright, where women become the embodiment of what it means to be a Mother and enjoy life with their kids — all resulting in something that sets us up for a happier and healthier existence as human beings.
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