let the youtube comment wars commence.
from y/t:
This video is of my fourth birth. It was the singular most transforming event of my life and my most conscious act as a woman to date.
WARNING: This video is explicit, especially as it is shot outdoors in broad daylight. If you choose to watch it, please watch it with respect and understand that it is very exposing for me to share myself in this way.
How and why I chose to give birth in nature was much about the inner journey as the outward process ... and equally as powerful. Afterwards I felt like my whole life had been in preparation for that one moment. My sense of wholeness and peace was bigger and deeper than anything I had ever felt before. This feeling only continues to expand and ripple out into my family, my relationships, my life.
I give free permission to share if it feels right for you to do so and is done with love and respect for myself and my family.
With gratitude and an open heart.
Simone
Music at end of video is the Gayatri Mantra performed by Deva Premal.
Special mention to just some of my sources of inspiration and education:
9 Comments
braschlosanI dare you to watch after the ten minute mark.
schlubNot going to get me to watch it after the zero second mark!
I dare you to watch after the ten minute mark.
ponceleonSomeone needs to make a version of this with David Attenborough giving us the finer points of the illusive hippie birth.
cluhlenbraucknot natural at all. yoga mats?
bobknight33I can't watch. This is an over the line WTF event.
gargoylesays...pretty nice, especially compared to the hospital births you get to watch usually in prenatal classes, with all kinds of drama and tests, and poking and prodding.
ChaosEngineIt's all well and good and natural and so on.... right up until the point where something goes wrong and you're in the middle of the woods.
There's a bloody good reason women give birth in hospitals.
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worthwords>> with all kinds of drama and tests, and poking and prodding.
In the western world, infant and maternal mortality has plummeted thanks to improved hygiene and good medical care, but these days there is a big emphasis on offering choice to the woman. In the UK If the pregnancy is deemed low risk then midwife only hospital delivery is offered as a basic right and the women can choose often choose pool birth, or home birth if they wish.
The latest NICE guidelines even go so far as to say that a woman should be able to ask for a c-section even if not medically indicated.
If the woman opts for something like opiate pain relief or an epideural then of course it becomes more medicalised but again it's a choice.
When you are on your second or third child, it often just pops out with little fuss where as the first baby is much more of an unknown. I'd be a lot less worried about a lady like this who has had 3 normal deliveries which i assume were uncomplicated.
The only think i'd say here is that babies get cold very quickly and so should be dried quickly rather than doused in brook water.
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