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We all have an ingrained idea about what labour and birth is like; wether it’s what we’ve seen in movies, what we’ve read in books, or story after story we hear from friends, our mothers or other mothers.
Unfortunately in our culture birth has a high “shock” factor, and often we hear about the negativity: the pain, the endurance, the tears, the stitches. And for most of us (this was myself included), we generally resign ourself to quite an unpleasant experience - until the baby arrives of course.
It wasn’t until half way through my pregnancy, that for the very first time, I had a woman tell me that she absolutely loved her labour, this was fucking ground breaking!! I had never heard a positive word uttered about birthing until this moment, and that was the catalyst that sent me on a journey to have a positive, and even pleasurable, birth experience with my child.
Unfortunately in our culture birth has a high “shock” factor, and often we hear about the negativity: the pain, the endurance, the tears, the stitches. And for most of us (this was myself included), we generally resign ourself to quite an unpleasant experience - until the baby arrives of course.
It wasn’t until half way through my pregnancy, that for the very first time, I had a woman tell me that she absolutely loved her labour, this was fucking ground breaking!! I had never heard a positive word uttered about birthing until this moment, and that was the catalyst that sent me on a journey to have a positive, and even pleasurable, birth experience with my child.
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