Birth as I know it

What I know about birth

What I know about birth I have not learned out of a text book. I have not formerly studied midwifery, nor attended medical college. I have however proudly carried and birthed my own four magnificent children, with great sensitivity and awareness. They have been my teachers, my reminders and my facilitators. Each one of them has brought along their own gifts and learnings of birth for me.
Along with this, I have had the blessed privilege of sharing the sacred space of birth with other woman, who have allowed and entrusted me as their doula.

I have experienced birth, I have felt it in my heart and in every cell of my being. For me birth is a place that I know, it is a place that I love, and it is a place in which I feel very familiar. I am passionate, and confident and extremely alive in that place. At the same time I am deeply humbled, every time at the shear miracle and magnificence of the process. I feel deeply blessed and touched, every time, to be allowed in such a sacred space.

I feel that what I know about birth, I have inherited and accumulated, genetically perhaps. My dear late grandmother, who provided me with my model of motherhood, often spoke of her regrets of not being a nurse, maybe it is this that she has passed on to me. I am grateful Granny.

In my heart, can truly picture myself as a midwife in years gone by. A woman who stood by and supported labouring woman. A woman that the village would “call in” to help in difficult situations. I feel birth in my bones ! A deep love I hold.

The knowledge I have is not new, it is just very deep. It is hard for me to put into words. I hope that more than what you read, you will allow yourself to feel what I have to share..

For me the space of birth is extremely sacred, as if heaven is wide open. I can relate with my heart and soul to both the mother as well as the child. I am deeply touched in this moment. I love it !

It is from this space, which deeply touches the core of my being, that I wish to share with you here, my stories of birth. They come from my heart, and it is my prayer that they will in turn touch you. May your heart be open as mine is right now.