Creating a New Story for Birth

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“Giving birth in ecstasy. This is our birthright and our body’s intent. Mother Nature, in her wisdom, prescribes birthing hormones that take us outside our usual state, so that we can be transformed on every level as we enter motherhood.” 

Dr Sarah Buckley. 

How we are born, and indeed, how we give birth, has immense bearing on our lives

I find it very interesting how, in general, there is widespread acceptance of harmful and interventionist practices in the assumptions and expectations about what birth looks like, and what is required to give birth. 

The fact that birth is viewed as a medical emergency when, as we all can acknowledge, women’s bodies are designed to carry and birth babies, amazes me. Women have indeed been the portal through which all human life, since the beginning, has come, and for far far longer than the existence of the medical industry. 

Life follows Birth

Our births, just like any other major life event, and even more so, affects us on every level of our beings. Birth becomes the foundational template from which we consciously, and more commonly, subconsciously order our lives. 

A lot of the wounds we have around abandonment, separation, violence, and feeling unsafe in the world, stem from this earliest imprint. 

During the birth process and the newborn phase, human infants are particularly vulnerable and need the absolute, guaranteed, and continued presence of their mothers. 

Mothers and babies exist in a single energy body which slowly separates out as the child grows up. To a baby’s consciousness, it exists as one with its mother. 

In the absence of interference, the majority of women are capable of physiological birth 

When we trust the process of birth, we can start to divest from our deeply entrenched and pervasive cultural conditioning about needing external experts, constant surveillance, management, interference, interventions and safety measures.

These beliefs are constantly reinforced by the medical industry, the media, and well meaning people with warnings, horror stories and their own fears.  

The ugly truth

The tragic truth is that, by our investment in the system of industrial birth, we have given over our power as mothers, parents and communities to an entity that does not center the true wellness of mothers and babies, and the mother-child dyad. 

Harmful practices and protocols persist, mothers are coerced into a chain reaction of interventions, all of which derail physiological birth, births are sabotaged and more.. 

When we understand the process of birth, we can let it unfold without fear and doubt 

As thinking, maturing, conscious human beings, we have to realise that we are responsible for our experience, and that we DO have a choice. We have unprecedented access to information, we are allowed to ask questions, we are allowed to consider how we would like to do things. 

There is a wave of human beings who are remembering that birth is not a medical event.We know that we can avail ourselves of the vast knowledge, tools and other resources that modern medicine offers, without becoming dependent and beholden to this system. 

And, we are returning to the fact that birth is not only a physical event, but a sacred spiritual event. 

“Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth,
as fragile, as elusive, as fleeting as dawn. 
The child is there, hesitant, tentative,
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Let him be.
Just wait.
This child is awakening 
for the very first time. 
This is his first dawn.
Allow him its grandeur, its majesty.
Don’t even stir until he leaves behind
the night and its kingdom of dreams.”

Frederick Leboyer – French obstetrician.

I look so forward to connecting to you all at the KwazuluSpirit Conscious Parenting Indaba in July
Love always, Lynne 

Conscious Parenting Indaba 15.07.2025
Birth as a Rite of Passage
Lynne MacIntyre – 12:30 to 13:30
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