A little update may be needed since the summer post. Life has been full in Vermont ~ between studies, apprenticeships, birth support, placenta encapsulation, child birth education... Fullness!
Regardless, there is still desire to tell the truth: birth is safe. Especially when not hindered and interfered with by a provider.
Something else I've witnessed in the past few days: we all have our birth stories, and are eager to heal.
As I taught a CBE class last week, I found myself with a client and her educator. As I went through the information I had gathered for this purpose, I realized that the educator, who had gone through the childbirth process four months ago, had not processed her birth. Sadly, there was a need that could not be met in this forum, as I could not bear witness while trying to teach.
O, how do we need such a service for women and families... Perhaps this should be a new title to add to my competencies: bearing witness and birth healing...
3 comments:
ok, i would like to post script the comment is from MARE and not CLAES but he is the one with the google account it automatically was logged into..
is there any sort of post birth processing forum? not just for birth trauma - but a place to share? we are certainly all story tellers when it comes to our births. it seems these stories come to the surface and there is a need to share with each new birth - a new opportunity to relive and retell.
i'm not sure if there is such a thing outside of birth trauma forums. this said, we may need to redefine "birth trauma". it doesn't take a cesarean or a different outcome to create birth trauma.
i think simply an ear to listen, and to mirror, if necessary, is helpful in processing a birth. sometimes, we can wonder if this is the same birth as the one we've attended... all participants have their birth stories. babies too. and they need to be heard too. (Karen Strange has amazing information about this!!!)
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