Baby Agenda

For the longest time the final word in a woman experience of birth is... You have a baby and is 'safe'. What else do you want... Just this one sentence, it's multitude of variations where the key is that women should have gratitude for a live child... Oh yeah! Doesn't sound good now does it.
The field bringing forth the next generation could only be grateful that she was 'processed' to be able to bear the fruit.

So this post is about 'safe and healthy'

The use of the word safe intrinsically means that its unsafe to begin with. This seems to be the language of fear. Is really birth unsafe? Then pray enlighten us how the human race survived, each generation doing better than the last. Each of us were to be born before we could do more for the 'safety of birth'.

The word healthy is again misleading... Since solid research and science says that the modern practices around pregnancy, labour, birth, postpartum care are leading to long term issues of health. Physical, mental, emotional and perhaps spiritual health of our race is at stake.

Looking back at the very first statement about gratitude for safety and health becomes a cruel joke on the mother and baby and the world at large.

When our aim is truly safe and healthy baby. Since we cannot separate the mother and baby. Safe and healthy baby means safe and healthy mother. Nature link the two in many complex ways, each one stimulating the other to make sure we live, and birth the human race. This complex process is a well tuned system that is auto run, mutually stimulated, built with all kinds of loops for all kinds of situation that nature deems safe and healthy for a new generation to be born and survive effectively.

If our aim is the same as what nature has programmed us to to achieve then how can our care be separate or away from nature's way and yet be called safe and healthy?!?

For every step that we reach, we need to look back to the few previous and introspect where did we leave the safe and healthy road. Births don't happen in vacuum for the woman, she is the individual and unique assimilation of many aspects of her genetic, upbringing, experiences and hopes to name a few. She is at all times backed by the 'code' that is programmed into each of us and builds on that through her life. Pregnancy is a part of that continuum and baby is an intrinsic part of her sum total, the code and the uniqueness the baby brings in the equation.
So simply said ... They are already on the well tread road of safe and health, so 'what's the point where she moved away from this path' is the more important question that 'what more does she want'... What she wants is just what nature intended, pretty basic.