Thursday, October 30, 2008

Inspiration Birthing From Within

Laxmi met me when she was almost due and was absolutely not thinking about giving birth. Don't get me wrong ....
Laxmi was pregnant and almost completing her 9th month
Laxmi was a well educated modern woman with a great job
Laxmi loved her baby a lot

Only, all this time did not think about the actual birth. Infact, she made an effort not to think about it at all.
It was around this time I met Laxmi.

Like may other women she was scared of the word labour and birth.

Somewhere along the line fiction has become greater than fact. Women think birth is painful and full of peril. It is something they have to grit their teeth and suffer to become mothers. Nature revels in fertility... yet for humans it makes the birth so painful. Do we really think that nature does not want humans to have babies? Is it possible that after eons of evolution and adaptation nature wants the most intellegent of its species to perish? Doesn't make sense.

After a couple of meetings ... in a session inspired by BFW.. ... Laxmi created



In her own words...
this is a picture of her and the baby, the baby is snug at the breast, and she is fine with the pregnancy and the birth. The whole mom and baby scene is in a glass ball, with golden flakes that float down when the ball is shaken.
Laxmi did well in her labour and had a normal birth