02/25/2026
Unfortunately, it took going through trauma, PTSD, and two hospital births to gain my internal knowing — to find my internal power and my authority over self. To stop looking to others, including my partner, and to defer only to myself and my choices for the way I wanted to birth.
Birth is an extremely vulnerable time in a woman’s life. It is important to find a way to anchor your mind to your desires in birth, so that when anyone with outside “authority” asks questions, suggests interventions, or begins coercive measures for compliance, a woman can still respond from the decisions she made prior to birth.
It is okay to express every feeling, without feeling the need to tone yourself down. It is okay if they don’t like you. It is okay to be that “difficult” patient.
You can stay grounded in your convictions, even in your most primal brain.
Can you think of any non-birth-related ways in which you’ve owned your personal sovereignty? Or share your birth experience where you owned your birth?