Wednesday, September 16, 2009
miraculous birthing bodies
Women who let their bodies do what they need to do have amazing and sometimes surprising birth experiences. A big tall mamma birthing a few days ago: She moved around the birth room eventually getting herself into what seemed like a counter-intuitive leaning backwards squat. After watching her for about 15 minutes, I said"That looks uncomfortable. Try your hands and knees." She did. The water broke and her baby was out in a few minutes. Imagine my surprise when a beautiful, flexible birthing goddess type mamma a couple of nights later got into that same backwards leaning pose, not once, but repeatedly. She even did a few yoga crab moves (she really was a bit of a birth yogi), pushing upwards and backwards onto her hands from a seated posture with her belly in the air.... Then she squatted and the baby came out....fabulous.... Love it
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Cool. It would have been so easy to have my third on the john, but the midwives needed me to lie down so they could see what was going on. C'est la vie.
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