Normal birth is often not a ‘natural’ birth but a mother does use pain relieving medications and interventions. Giving birth as nature intended is a ‘Natural Birth’ having a deep intuitive instinct about the birth and when supported and released on the unnatural fear, give birth without any interventions and in a calm and gentle manner. A mother surrounded by her family, friends and health care professionals who remind her of the power of labour and encourage her quietly and patiently to birth her baby naturally, will be able to trust the birth process and be confident that she has the strength and wisdom to give birth her way. Another way of describing natural child birth is when a mother prepares for the birth of her baby confident in her own ability to give birth, being willing to feel the surges and finding comfort in her response to what she feels with no medical intervention. In contrast to a mother giving birth attended by physicians in a busy hospital with medications, machines and epidurals.
Dr Grantly Dick-Read quoted saying:
"While I have not used pure hypnotism very often I have used suggestion a great deal, indeed almost constantly, and I am irked when I see how my colleagues neglect to avail themselves of this harmless and potent remedy. It accounts for easily half of the success of local anaesthesia". This suggests that denying mothers of natural birth experience are hampering the miracle of childbirth hampered by the agony and anguish of the clinical/technical aspects of childbirth rather than the joy/enjoyment it should bring.
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