Oxytocin is also known as the hormone of love. How does our body react if we don’t instinctively feel safe? Hormones change.Ī crucial one in the hormonal dance of birth is oxytocin. Fight, flight or freeze instincts kick in. We are designed to give birth in the wilds (houses, hospitals and the like haven’t been around that long really!) So in the wild, in order to safeguard our newborns, smelling of fresh food for the animals lurking around looking for their next meal, it was helpful to postpone labour if we felt unsafe at all. Human’s have mammalian behaviours in lots of situations, and especially when it comes birthing. Let me go a little further into my understanding of what safe means to me, and more importantly why. This seems such an obvious statement, but sadly the typical hospital birth environment doesn’t cover this too well. ![]() To birth, as they should, women need to feel safe. There also won’t be the usual desired skin to skin to increase the hormones needed to deliver the placenta, as this long time, longed for baby will be in the arms of mummy and daddy.īut who says that we still can’t all come together to give this baby the most gentle and kind birth that we can, and for me, a most empowering and happy birth… and all live happily ever after.īack to the basics of what Sarah stresses utterly importantly. So this plan is even more important, as having the two midwives, my doula, the mum, the dad (who is obviously someone else’s husband, and not mine, and has thankfully never seen my bottom before) all present, can risk labour from progressing. Just a little background info: the baby I am carrying at present is my friends’ baby. ![]() PREPARING FOR AN UNDISTURBED BIRTH WITH SURROGATE BABY So, I shall share from the angle of how I am going to put into practice what I gathered on that day. I have previously read Sarah’s book ‘Gentle birth, gentle mothering’ and I can tell you that you can learn more from reading her book than you can from a little review/report that I write up… and I do highly recommend everyone reads her book! Now, I’ve pondered over this for a couple of weeks and have decided to write it from the perspective of a woman about to give birth soon.
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