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"Why doesn't everyone do this?" a client said recently a few hours post birth.
UNDISTURBED BIRTH: You, the mother, are the ONLY authority in your birth.
Your partner, myself, and anyone else present know you're the only authority.
You're at home or at another space that's your nest for birth.
What happens:
1-You and I build a relationship of trust during our pre-birth connection sessions.
We cover everything in homebirth preparation + whatever else you'd like.
2-I'm present at your birth space in my own authority as an experienced birth witness and intuitive guide.
Here's some things I typically do at births, and it's unique each time.
-exalt you
-offer physical and emotional comfort such as food, water, soft words, touch
-remind others of your authority
-focus on the energetic field
-clear the energy when needed
-share my opinion if you ask me
-help with other children
-clean up.
I may be one room away during most or all of your birth process. I'm by your side if/when you desire this.
When your baby is born, it's you and baby undisturbed.
MY OFFERING TO YOU!
- 5 or 6 meetings while you're pregnant + unlimited phone, email, text.
- On-call for you, typically as of 36 to 37 weeks pregnant.
-In-person presence starting at any point in your labor.
-Stay with you until you and baby are settled in and fed.
- Up to 7 hours of postpartum support in the first few weeks post-birth.
Your investment: $2,500.
And, when we're called to walk together, money will not divide us, we find a way.
$100 discount when you pay in full prior to approximately 19 weeks pregnant.
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Other option: When you've already birthed in power, entirely free from the medical paradigm, I offer this:
-2 pre-birth meetings
-Birth-keeper presence at your birth
-1 postpartum visit
-Must be paid in full at contract signing. Your investment is $2,100.
Sincerely and radically yours, Martha
(Freebirth Society credentialed + currently enrolled at The Matrona)
In system delivery and woman-owned birth are not even really connected. This is not about apples v. oranges type thing, as those are both fruits.
Woman owned Birth
-You, the birthing woman, are the sole authority over your body, birth and baby
Current System
-Medical managers are the authorities over both you and your baby.
Woman owned Birth
- The birth of your baby is from you.
Current System
-You deliver your baby to other people.
Woman owned Birth
-You, the creator of your baby, naturally and spontaneously do everything needed to birth, and feed and care for your baby in pure love and health.
Current System
-Women must be rescued from their own bodies, and their babies rescued from them. The woman herself is secondary because her body is an acute or potential threat to her baby.
Woman owned Birth
-During the birth process, you move, rest, eat, drink, scream, dance, breathe quietly, or do anything at all. You are free.
Current System
-You "get" some of the things you hoped for during labor if your medical mangers allow it.
Woman owned Birth
Any pregnant human may home-birth.
Current System
Some women may potentially home-birth: you must initially be labeled "low risk" by current medical standards and pass enough tests to keep the "low risk" label through immediate postpartum.
Woman owned Birth
During your birth process, no one comes near you unless you call them to you. You are supreme.
Current System
Medical staff members come at you in a revolving door style during your labor or induction to check your cervix and adjust the machines attached to your body. You are the subject in a "trial of labor" to attempt vaginal delivery.
Woman owned Birth
When your baby is born, only you touch your baby until and if you allow someone else to do so.
Current System
It's per medical protocol and situation. Some women, sometimes, are allowed to hold and breastfeed their baby for part of the time postpartum.
Woman owned Birth
YOU!
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