12/03/2025
When you picture birth, what do you see?
Screaming on a hospital bed? Fluorescent lights? People shouting, "Push!" while you're strapped to monitors and prodded by strangers?
That’s the image we’ve been fed—by films, TV, and a society with a real 'we don't talk about things like that' attitude. And for too many people, that image becomes reality.
But here’s the thing: birth isn’t inherently like that.
Can you imagine birth without the bu****it?
A birth without fingers shoved in your vag. Without strangers walking in and out. Without rules, timelines, and ‘failure to progress’.
In the past, we knew birth. We saw it. Before giving birth ourselves, we’d have been at the births of our siblings, cousins, friends. We’d have experienced all the sights, sounds and smells in all their goopy, powerful glory.
We’d have seen what happens when the body is trusted instead of managed.
But now? With only 2.4% of births happening at home, how many midwives and doctors have actually witnessed an undisturbed, fully physiological birth? Even the way we define birth—the ‘first, second, and third stages’ you hear about in most standard antenatal classes—comes from a study of 500 women, over 90% of whom were sedated.
And look, this isn’t about dismissing medical care. Intervention saves lives. But when that becomes routine and the only way we talk about birth, we treat birth as something that needs managing, measuring, timing, before there's even a problem. That’s not care. That’s conditioning.
Here’s the good news: you can change that.
By learning how birth actually works. How your body moves through labour. How your hormones (and no, it’s not just oxytocin) support you. How to work with your body, not against it.
This knowledge rewrites your entire understanding of birth and gives you a whole new perspective on what it can be.
Luckily for you, I know just the place where you can learn all this and more…😉
What do you wish you'd have known about birth beforehand? Let me know below!
