Birch Midwife & Lotus Doula

As a little interlude to my dissertation serialization I thought I might just air a few thoughts I have been having lately – a discussion came up on an internet group about how frustrating it is when people ‘won’t think for themselves’ people who hold the belief that ‘birth is a catastrophy waiting to happen’  The discussion became quite emotionally charged about supporting women in their choices and the question of whether they made informed choices. Women who ‘can’t see that the induction/epidural/forceps might have been a cause rather than a solution requiring another solution’, who ‘KNOW that birth is dangerous because had they not been rescued they and their babies would have died’ ‘ignorance of the cascade of intervention’ and I wondered ……perhaps they made the ‘choice not be become informed’ or perhaps we have in a way created this situation – I know I spend time explaining how women just need to detach themselves from that neo-cortex that makes us so human to become more mammalian and to enable us to really switch off the outside world and follow our bodies but have we really given women the tools to do this – the question I am asking is – have we told women to switch off their ‘thinking brain’ but not given them the tools to reach deep to the instinctive brain and therefore the only thing to do with the ‘thinking brain’ switched off it to allow others to take over!!!!