The Worlds Best Kept Secret

It's crazy isn't it....how this is the worlds best kept secret!! Women who I am privileged to work with say they feel ashamed or unable to speak about how they had such empowered births with other women. It's not uncommon to hear that when at mothers group all of the women around them only speak of their emotional wounds from their journey....and then dismiss their own feelings by saying ''at the end off the day it's about a healthy baby'. 


And then wonder why they are suffering from postnatal anxiety and or depression.

But is that all its about? Is that truly the only reason we carry a child for nine months and give birth to them - to bear a healthy child? Is that the only reason . Yes it's a reason - no argument there...but is it the only reason?

If it was surely we would buy them at the supermarket or find them in the cabbage patch after putting in our order.

But it involves a woman too. It involves this child's mother. She is not only giving birth to her baby, she is giving birth to herself. And if this can't happen in a supported supportive environment where she feels held and respected and safe emotionally and physically and psychologically and spiritually it's not dissimilar to saying it's ok for women to be impregnated by rape.