Birth in the fast lane
Natural births have been getting a lot of attention lately what with the recent release of Your Best Birth and dooce blogging about what a “sacred and spiritual” experience her most recent birth was.
I think most women who have had a natural birth would agree that “sacred” and “spiritual” are pretty accurate words to describe the feelings and emotions surrounding a natural labor and birth. Now, from the perspective of someone who would not describe themselves as “spiritual” at all (me), I will tell you that the feeling of giving birth to your child– the child you carried and nurtured for 9+ months - is incredibly moving, incredibly beautiful. You will never experience a more empowering event in your life.
My own birth experience is what inspired me to become a Bradley Birth teacher. I don’t talk about that aspect of my life a lot here, but it’s something I work hard at every week. I just finished my first series of classes a couple of weeks ago and my first student gave birth over the weekend. Now, I normally wouldn’t share details about my students here but since this birth has been in a few newspapers and on the news I thought it would be ok to share with you.
Everett Mother Recalls Giving Birth on I5
Crazy huh? What do you think the chances are of my first student giving birth on the freeway are? We cover emergency childbirth in class and they did everything right. It must have been a stressful experience for S. and her mom but they kept their cool and I am so proud of them!
Ann wrote:
That’s awesome! I’ve come too close to that myself. I love the 25 year old officer’s comment
Posted on 16-Jul-09 at 1:10 pm | Permalink
thursday wrote:
Wow. That’s pretty amazing. Perhaps classes might have helped me with my first birth. Of course, I had no idea what my options were until it was too late to take Bradley classes. I had 50 hours of labor, couldn’t keep water down (and I mean from the BEGINNING, say oh 2 cm), and had my baby at a hospital. Am I considering never doing it again? Oh yeah. Did I have drugs? YES. Thank goodness. Was it spiritual? No, of course not. But I’m not actually sure I could have delivered without any drugs!
Posted on 16-Jul-09 at 9:02 pm | Permalink
Heather wrote:
That’s amazing!
Posted on 17-Jul-09 at 5:31 am | Permalink
Kate wrote:
Incredible! It’s always great hearing about an unusual birth situation going so smoothly
Posted on 17-Jul-09 at 7:30 am | Permalink
Amber Lee wrote:
I loved our Bradley classes, and had a very moving natural birth… Didn’t use the emergency info though - that is crazy! I’m sure having that story to tell will make future couples really pay attention to that section in class!
Posted on 18-Jul-09 at 2:33 am | Permalink
Meg wrote:
That is amazing! Love Bradley, it’s so awesome you are teaching it.
Posted on 19-Jul-09 at 2:10 pm | Permalink
Melissa J wrote:
I read about her in the paper. Yay for being prepared! Congratulations G on getting your first student into the news
Posted on 30-Jul-09 at 8:19 pm | Permalink
Heidi wrote:
there must be some sort of initiation or something, my first birth as a doula was a doozey 50 hours-then a c-section.
Posted on 04-Aug-09 at 4:48 pm | Permalink