Birthing Wisdom

Who is Birthing Wisdom

Since the birth of my first daughter more than thirty years ago, I have trained as a childbirth educator and counsellor and have been privileged toattend more than one thousand births in hospitals and home settings as a birth attendant. I have also been honoured to work with many, many more women and their partners and support people during my birth preparation workshops, pre-natal classes, personal birth counselling sessions and in presentations and seminars around Australia and internationally. Sadly, in more than thirty years of birth support work, I have also witnessed an unprecedented rise in unnecessary medical interventions during birthand the development of a culture that, rather than supporting women to birth naturally, is actually undermining them. No wonder, then, that many women are fearful as they approach their labour. Will their body cope? Are they physically and emotionally prepared? Feedback during my regular presentations to midwives and medical practitioners tells me that my understanding of our birth system is on the money butmore importantlythat women who have undertaken my birth preparation classes are better prepared to navigate the many challenges they face when trying to birth naturally. My passion is to educate women about the impact of our birth culture on the outcome of our births. Instead of fear, I want you to go into your labour with confidence in your body and your support people, and the knowledge that will give you the best possibility of natural birth. Join me to learn how. The intention of my Birthing Wisdom work workshops, birth support, counselling practice, birth attendant training, presentations and talking birth talk wherever, whenever and to whoever Is to keep alive a trust in, and possibility for normal physiological birth Rhea In many cultures and across time, the challenging journey of pregnancy and birth was celebrated and honoured as a transformational process, a rite of passage. Women were supported in this journey and enabled to find the inner resources they ...Read more

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