THE RADICAL PATH

It's great you're here.  It's a huge leap to even consider owning your birth.  We've been trained that  medical-obstetrics rules women, and this is rarely questioned, much less challenged.  

To release yourself to woman-owned birth is radical.

When you're  called to be that wild woman birthing in glorious sovereignty  then it's primal sounds, wild movements, roars, sobs, familiar scents, your own food, your own people, your own bed, your own floor, your own toilet, your own rawness.   

Here are some examples of how woman-owned birth is radically different from system-owned delivery.  

Woman owned Birth

-You, the birthing woman, are the sole authority and decision maker about your body, birth and baby

Current System

-The ultimate authorities on your body, birth, and baby are your medical managers who work under the protocols of the medical  system.  

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  own 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 human who is pregnant may birth her baby while in her own home. 

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.

 I may walk with you.

Radically yours,  Martha