YOUR SACRED BIRTH

As childbirth became more medicalised, birth started moving from the home where birthing women would be cared for by wise women and into the hospitals where male surgeons and scientists claimed the domain. The field of obstetrics was born 💰

The maternity system that we have today still operates on many outdated and harmful procedures.

Interventions like episiotomies or forceps for example are being incredibly overused unnecessarily causing more harm than good.

Has the field of obstetrics changed that much when it comes to understanding birth at all? Or are we still being experimented on?

🚩 If you are wanting an intervention free physiological birth, an obstetrician should not be your first point of call.
Obstetricians are trained surgeons there for true emergencies if we need them. They are not familiar with nor have likely ever seen an intervention-free physiological birth.
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A DOULA FOR EVERY WOMAN 🤎

If you or someone you know is struggling to find pregnancy/birth/postpartum support or cannot afford a Doula but could benefit from support, I’m happy to meet you where you are 🤎

You can send me an enquiry through my website
www.yoursacredbirth.com.au
Or
You can find me on Instagram (where I’m more active) and send me a message through there 🌸

With the closure of the birth centre, Mackay & Surrounds you need know you can still avoid the hospital if that is what you’re wanting! Tiffney from New Mother Offerings is who you can talk to if you’re having a baby in 2024 and wanting to birth at home.

I myself am moving on from Mackay unfortunately!
Tiffney has been my amazing back up doula and there is no one else I would trust in my birth space than Tiffney! I’m going to miss this absolute GEM 🤎

I’ve lost count how many times I’ve heard, “oh my gosh my baby’s cord was around their neck! It was so scary!”

And it’s understandable why, when we’ve been so heavily brainwashed to fear our pregnant bodies and birth, surely we and our babies must need saving from the entire experience!?

Wrong, the overwhelming majority of women & babies do not need interference whatsoever.

It’s time we end the fear around this one! 🤎
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"Modern culture seeks to eradicate any uncomfortable emotion, sensation or experience. We attempt to control any experience that is dark, risky and chaotic in an attempt to create a sense of certainty."
https://www.rachelreed.website/rcrp

When women are coming out of their births confused, let down and carrying trauma, a question that often pops up is, “why didn’t they honour my birth plan?”

I feel it’s time we start calling it for what it is, - it’s an advocacy plan. Especially if you’re birthing within the hospital or even with midwives in your home.

Your birth plan/advocacy plan is for you, your partner, & doula, to ensure what you want and don’t want is upheld and respected.

I’ve personally witnessed birth plans being laughed at, women being told, “your expectations for birth are unrealistic, you’ll have an easier time if you just go with the flow.”

It’s really not hard to understand why birth trauma is higher than 1 in 3 when we’ve got people saying this rubbish to women 🚩

When you’ve got ‘care’ providers telling women to go with the flow and ditch their wants for birth, you know it’s time to get serious about you & your baby’s experience.

Sit down with your birth support and voice what you want and don’t want so they know when to step in for you.

Feel free to share your experience with your birth plan below! 👇🏽
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Birth for the majority is not a medical event, it’s a physiological process.

Anything that disturbs the physiological process has the ability to delay or derail your birth.

A vaginal exam in a physiological birth is an unnecessary intervention.

Any ‘care’ providers wanting to look between your legs for the sake of it can & should be shown the door.

Even in the thick of labour, you can STILL fire your ‘care’ provider.

You hold ALL of the power 🤎
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The classic “I’m just going to” is said to women day in day out within the maternity system followed by the immediate action with zero informed consent gained from a mother.

There is no such thing as valid informed consent when this term is used.

Women must ALWAYS be given all of the information so they can make an informed decision. Being respected enough to be given the benefits/risks or choice to do nothing is your basic human right.

This type of language “I’m just going to” is noticeable during pregnancy. It’s designed to remind you who’s in charge of you, your body, & baby.

Don’t let this language slip by, call it out 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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