06/08/2022
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• .confidence Historically speaking, women being alone or only in the support of a partner, maybe a family member, and a nurse who is in and out of the room, is a new practice. For centuries, women have had the support of knowledgeable birthing guides. And even in some countries it’s still common. Today we would call them Doulas. But the shift from community birth into the hospital has isolated our new mothers. Which is what we have done here in the US.
While modern medicine and technology have saved many lives, they have also caused many unnecessary deaths, trauma and suffering. As well as continuing to use practices that are not evidence based. The scale has tipped in the opposite direction. It’s time to take back our births, spread awareness and education of the physiological process of childbirth, and get doulas back at the side of the laboring mother. Childbirth is a natural even that SOMETIMES needs intervention. Not a medical event that sometimes happens naturally.
