Dear Tess, thank you for this and many many posts and talks and thoughts and actions to create a better world and better healthcare for us all. I totally resonate with you. I heard Dr Kory's plea to the Senate in December 2020 and was moved to tears. I didn't have your knowledge and experience to take action and I'm so grateful you did. I also was dismayed that loved ones around me refused to watch Dr Kory's video and any of the evidence about ivermectin. They followed the advice from medical authorities and worried about me! Throughout these times your communications to members of the public have touched me deeply. This is just one more which reminds me of the birth of my twin children, how I would have loved to have a doula near me. Thankfully in their early months I was able to follow my instinct and stay near them for as long as felt right. They are now 33 years old but these memories are totally vivid. Thank you for being there at this time and for expressing strongly all these values and for your engagement in defending our human right to happiness. Marianne
1972, after a difficult labour, our first son was born. Mother and child were separated for the night. Being a keen observer, I had no doubt this was for the convenience of the NHS machine, not the wellbeing of either cog. The separation effectively cemented the trauma of each. Much accrued.
Great post. You asked why women have come to fear the process of birth. I obviously can't speak for women, but I can say that growing up I observed that women were generally terrified of dying in childbirth. As I grew older and encountered zero such deaths I began to wonder where this fear came from. I kept my ear to the ground while reading history, but again found only the rarest account of women dying in childbirth. Then I happened on the story of Ignaz Semmelweis working at a maternity ward in Vienna in 1846. He found that the mortality rate at his ward was so high that women preferred to give birth alone in the street! As stories like that take years to fall out of the collective memory of a society, I concluded the current fear of dying in child birth most likely originated in the fact that maternity wards of the 19th century had both unnaturally and drastically increased the mortality rate.
Great stuff passed on to my neice Sallie who is about to give birth at home.
Everyone needs to watch the new documentary called Birth Time. It’s a game changer for our broken maternity system. https://www.birthtime.world/
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Dear Tess, thank you for this and many many posts and talks and thoughts and actions to create a better world and better healthcare for us all. I totally resonate with you. I heard Dr Kory's plea to the Senate in December 2020 and was moved to tears. I didn't have your knowledge and experience to take action and I'm so grateful you did. I also was dismayed that loved ones around me refused to watch Dr Kory's video and any of the evidence about ivermectin. They followed the advice from medical authorities and worried about me! Throughout these times your communications to members of the public have touched me deeply. This is just one more which reminds me of the birth of my twin children, how I would have loved to have a doula near me. Thankfully in their early months I was able to follow my instinct and stay near them for as long as felt right. They are now 33 years old but these memories are totally vivid. Thank you for being there at this time and for expressing strongly all these values and for your engagement in defending our human right to happiness. Marianne
1972, after a difficult labour, our first son was born. Mother and child were separated for the night. Being a keen observer, I had no doubt this was for the convenience of the NHS machine, not the wellbeing of either cog. The separation effectively cemented the trauma of each. Much accrued.
Great post. You asked why women have come to fear the process of birth. I obviously can't speak for women, but I can say that growing up I observed that women were generally terrified of dying in childbirth. As I grew older and encountered zero such deaths I began to wonder where this fear came from. I kept my ear to the ground while reading history, but again found only the rarest account of women dying in childbirth. Then I happened on the story of Ignaz Semmelweis working at a maternity ward in Vienna in 1846. He found that the mortality rate at his ward was so high that women preferred to give birth alone in the street! As stories like that take years to fall out of the collective memory of a society, I concluded the current fear of dying in child birth most likely originated in the fact that maternity wards of the 19th century had both unnaturally and drastically increased the mortality rate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
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