Forget about the Due Date, it should be the Due Month!

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I am open, I trust that everything will be as it should be, and I see the positive in every situation.  I have to thank my upbringing, but it is also something deep inside, I am connected, and I know that I will be OK and that nothing will go wrong.

I am grateful for the best of both worlds, that women have complete choice in how their birth is today, and also the guidance of our doctors and medical team in case of emergency, their expertise in emergency situations is a blessing.  This article is very powerful, explaining how in every other area of our life we stand strong for our rights and control of our decisions and our body, but when it comes to birth we feel inadequate and think everybody else knows better. The truth is only YOU know what is right for You, http://birthmonopoly.com/allowed/.

I was excited to read about pioneers of the natural birth movement, even when I was a young girl I heard of LAMAZE, one of the founders just passed away at 100 years old, http://issuu.com/jewishhomela/docs/la_jh_5-21-15/37?e=7985120/12975454.
I was just talking to a woman who gave birth around 1970, when the medical world was in charge, they would drug the woman in labor completely, give an episiotomy, take the baby out, and they thought this was the safest and most hygienic way for mom and baby.  Sadly many mothers did not bond with their babies right away, woke up with no memory of the experience, felt disconnected, and the healing was rough.  She told me for her second baby she took Lamaze classes, and although it did not take away the pain, nothing will take away the pain, we are meant to connect with our baby, there is a difference between pain and suffering, Thank God the medical side exists, but in most cases it is unnecessary and overused.

French Doctor Michele Odent said a very disturbing statement which unfortunately is the truth,

"Women risk losing ability 

to give birth naturally"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11627072/Women-risk-losing-ability-to-give-birth-naturally.html?fb_ref=Default

I feel that everybody is so concerned with the baby, many times the mother is not even an afterthought.  A mother is born as well, her birth experience will affect her for the rest of her life.  It can be an empowering and spiritual journey that will show her she can do anything.  Unfortunately h our society is so focused on a due date, which nowadays changes every time you go to your doctor's appointment, that the doctor many times starts speaking from the medical perspective of prevention, puts worries, not facts into a mother' thoughts.  It is so hard that last month, the last thing you need is someone telling you what else can go wrong.  Read the reality of a five week range of due date,

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/length-of-pregnancy-can-vary-by-up-to-five-weeks-scientists-discover-8749081.html

I will finish with this, things change all the time, research keeps changing, one day one thing is good and the next day it is not so good.  I found this article interesting about automatically putting hats on babies, http://www.bellybelly.com.au/baby/no-hats-on-newborn-babies/.  In the medical world, once there is a procedure that everyone is trained on and used to, it takes a long time to undo it, Thank God, birth in America is changing, and the focus is the mom, as it should be.  We all work together, Doctors, Nurses, Midwives, Doulas, and Interns, supporting mom.

MOM YOUR REALLY DO KNOW BEST,
TRUST YOU,
TRUST WHAT YOU FEEL,
GET SUPPORT,
HAVE A PLAN,
BE OPEN AND PRESENT,
BIRTH YOUR WAY,
Coach Yulia