On a discussion board this week in the birth professionals section (doulas, midwives, birth educators), someone asked the question “what’s at the root of your love of birth?” I was still for a moment and let my intuitive, heart-felt, gut level response come to me and it was this:
Women.
Women’s health, women’s issues, women’s empowerment, women’s rights.
Social justice.
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And, that feeling. The “birth power” feeling–that laughing/crying, euphoric, climbed-the-mountain, glowing, rapture…feeling. The transformative, empowering, triumphant, powerful, I DID IT, feeling.
I want all women to have the chance to experience that.
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As I look at my list above and invert it, it becomes my “tree” of birthwork–with women as the root and then spreading up to blossom with that birth-power-feeling. 🙂
To any birth professionals reading this, how about you? What’s at the root for you?
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women being empowered with knowledge and choices, in the hopes they can have a positive birth experience.
I’ve come to the point that I think I know where my birth passion comes from. I believe that we lived with God before we came to earth. He is our Father, and we are His children. We also have a Mother. This birth work is an eternal connectedness that I feel. It began before I came to this earth, and I feel it will continue. It ties me together with what was before, and what will be. It is sacred work.
That is the root of my birth passion.
That’s is beautiful, Erin!
Molly