This has been a long time coming! WoW over a year and no post?! I think I got swamped with life, birth and being a mom.
I feel like the first 6 months I was doing lots of learning; the first year it was learning, patience and perfecting.
The second year was lots of intensely different births. Each unique and yet each gave me a wealth of wisdom. The wise babies, their mommies and daddies along side the birth institution all showed me the raw bones of how awesome an experience can be.
Yet the stark opposite lurked in the corners of some institutions only coming out sporadically!
The birth of a child makes all the difference in their life, their mother's life and the life of their family as a whole.
To fight for a vaginal birth, skin to skin, pulsating of the the umbilical cord are just some of the things that are so important to parents these days.
One birth, one life, one experience at a time my job is to make a positive difference. When I see a mother's eyes beam after the birth of her child, when I see the partner look at her with awe and amazement, with love and respect I know that I have achieved this.
Every life is special and the way this life enters the world is weighted and so crucial.
Fatimah
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