I've never had a book make me cry like this one.
I'm reading birthing from within by pam england.
The information is wonderful and the stories are wonderful. I feel like im learning so much. Its made me realize that so far I haven't had too warped of an outlook on birth.
I was afraid when I started reading it that it would leave me feeling ignorant and chaffed by my own misconceptions and misguided ideas of pregnancy and birth.
But, it hasn't. It also hasn't left me in a fog of confusion or pulling away from the ideas being taught throughout the book. ideas about inner strength, the necessity for mental and physical preparation for childbirth. The chance that something could go terribly wrong from what you were expecting but, there is always a safe gentle way to handle it.
It makes me cry for different reasons. sometimes cry from the bewildered ignorance of the women who took the child birth classes but didn't open their hearts and minds to their own strength and instincts and later felt like their birth was a failure. Sometimes I cry when she tells a story of a woman who found a point of strength to draw on that lifted her even farther into her own perseverance and through her birth feeling complete and victorious.
Sometimes I cry when I read a story where the mother was so ready, so prepared, everything was going to be perfect and then through some complication it wasn't what she had envisioned as her perfect birth. But, she still held herself together and made the best of it and it was still beautiful and fulfilling.
Over all, so far, it's making me more and more excited about my own pregnancy and birth. I read through the "what to expect when you're expecting" book once. It's now in the trunk of my car with some other water damaged junk I plan to donate or throw away.
I feel like some of the books I bought as a start on my journey to becoming a doula have a completely different outlook on the process of birth.
Im so excited about the actually delivery I almost want to skip to the end. I feel a little crazy for thinking that way but, it gives me hope that my excitement and curiosity with help me glide through birth with as little stress and apprehension as possible.
I'm reading birthing from within by pam england.
The information is wonderful and the stories are wonderful. I feel like im learning so much. Its made me realize that so far I haven't had too warped of an outlook on birth.
I was afraid when I started reading it that it would leave me feeling ignorant and chaffed by my own misconceptions and misguided ideas of pregnancy and birth.
But, it hasn't. It also hasn't left me in a fog of confusion or pulling away from the ideas being taught throughout the book. ideas about inner strength, the necessity for mental and physical preparation for childbirth. The chance that something could go terribly wrong from what you were expecting but, there is always a safe gentle way to handle it.
It makes me cry for different reasons. sometimes cry from the bewildered ignorance of the women who took the child birth classes but didn't open their hearts and minds to their own strength and instincts and later felt like their birth was a failure. Sometimes I cry when she tells a story of a woman who found a point of strength to draw on that lifted her even farther into her own perseverance and through her birth feeling complete and victorious.
Sometimes I cry when I read a story where the mother was so ready, so prepared, everything was going to be perfect and then through some complication it wasn't what she had envisioned as her perfect birth. But, she still held herself together and made the best of it and it was still beautiful and fulfilling.
Over all, so far, it's making me more and more excited about my own pregnancy and birth. I read through the "what to expect when you're expecting" book once. It's now in the trunk of my car with some other water damaged junk I plan to donate or throw away.
I feel like some of the books I bought as a start on my journey to becoming a doula have a completely different outlook on the process of birth.
Im so excited about the actually delivery I almost want to skip to the end. I feel a little crazy for thinking that way but, it gives me hope that my excitement and curiosity with help me glide through birth with as little stress and apprehension as possible.
caia:
Hope all goes well 