The Power of a Gentle Birth by Ni Zain

Okay, many of you might think: What is the fuzz about the Bumi Sehat Foundation always...? Many of you might wonder why this little birth clinic up in Ubud is so important to collect 1 Million US$. And most of you, even parents might not know that the live of their child starts far before conception...

In my daily work I often see surprised looks of clients and parents if I ask about their birth or how was the pregnancy, and the condition of the mother. Freud and many other still have made the mistake to think the live of a human starts at the age of 3 or 4 years. This is a complete mistake. Our live starts with the health and set up of the mother. With the love of the parents. Just someone mentioned to me: The most important for the mother is, that she is loved by the father.

Yes, and if there is real love, their is care of the father, there is understanding. A stressed and overworked pregnancy woman is likely to have a child which is going to have mental and physical problems. Perhaps not right after birth, but several years down the road and it is often forgotten what caused the real problem.

Pregnant women today are overloaded far be joined what they can do. Work, household, other children, food which does not give them the nutrition they need, a husband not at all supporting and much more. Women today, once they know they are pregnant will be brain washed by their doctors, media and other already brain washed moms. The trend to Caesarian births is frightening. I doubt these mothers know what they are doing to themselves and their children. The process of birth creates us humans as much as pregnancy and the love of the parents do after birth. Birth gives us the first experience of pleasure and pain, which we transform into sexuality. A violent birth can lead to people who rape and abusing others. A sad fact which is ignored each day around the world in clinics.

Men are controlling birth today. One of the biggest mistakes of human kind. Birth was for millions of years the work of women. Women in tribes would gather around the birth giving woman and support her with their experience and love. No fear was indicated, just pure presence, love and support. Than men took over, pushed and pulled out babies from mothers and called it normal. Medicine was given at each part of pregnancy, birth and after. Some mothers don't remember the first look of their child. Cannot bond. Cannot produce milk anymore because they pulled away from their babies sometimes even for days. What an horrible experience for both of them. And all in the name of modern medicine.

At Bumi Sehat clinic a woman can give birth in her own way, gentle guided by Robin Lim and her team. To help the mother each natural effort is done, even if it is just to change the energy for mother and child with a little prayer. Many moms who would have hard births in a normal clinic, experience wonderful births at Bumi Sehat. Babies are born in a bath of flowers and put straight up to their mothers. No medical check up disturbs the bonding of mother and child. The two can enjoy and relax even if there are five other mothers on the way to labor. Nobody needs to rush. If a birth takes a day, it takes a day. Yes, this is normal! No baby will be cut off from the mother until the placenta is born too or even never, if it is a Lotus birth, where the placenta stays with the baby until the natural process is separating them. A process which is much saver for mother and child (read my upcoming article "Don't cut that cord!").

Gentle births are SAVE. Birth is a process between live and dead. Nobody can tell what can happen, so all the voices coming up with numbers. Sorry, I don't believe in them and there is much more damage done to the world with violent births, than with gentle births. What about this aspect? A child which has been pulled out of its mom, pinched with needles and separated from its mom has lost a lot of harmony and love in its first moments. What a start of live... Gosh... A baby landing in warm soft water, gentle lifted up into the arms of its mother experiences something so powerful wonderful strong... LOVE and PEACE

Mothers experiencing a gentle birth bond much better with their children, give more and better milk and recover 10 times faster from birth, than a mother which was pulled and push tough the process of birth. Unpleasant talks of Doctors and Midwifes at hospitals can put a mother in a situation of helplessness, while giving birth. Some of the feel treated like a raw piece of meat.

Another reason for gentle natural birth is the release of the love hormone Oxitocin. Oxitocin is a really good hormone. Okay, first mom and dad make love and release both a lot of Oxitocin. The more love, the more Oxitocin, the better the baby. Oxitocin is the hormone which makes at birth the contractions and opens the mother for birth. You get this - the love hormone... During the whole process of birth Oxitocin is in the blood stream of the mother and the child. What a lovely setup mother nature has created! Full of love hormones mother and child go though the process of birth and this is why some moms even experience an orgasm during birth. Birth can be a very plea sent experience, yaah!!! Oxitocin also helps us to "forget" the birth process and put it under "non-trauma". I just let you guess what happens to a baby born via Caesarian birth??? Birth will go under "Yes - Trauma", not a good start of live with a trauma right away. When I gave birth many told me that birth is a trauma also for the mom. This is not true. the birth of my child was not as gentle and nice as I wanted to have it, but I cannot say that I have a trauma from giving birth. Gosh, it was painful and I was not really lord of my body anymore, but no, no trauma. - Once the baby is in the mothers arms, Oxitocin is doing its next job: Producing milk. So mother milk is full of... guess what? Oxitocin - The love hormone. Each time the baby is getting the breast, it gets a whole lot of the love hormone of its mom. Guess the formula companies have a bit a hard time to add this to their power milk... Ha! So, a baby which is made though love, born with love and feed with love, must be.... A Lovely Person!

Women all over the world! Please take the power of birth back into your hands! Pregnancy is not a sickness! Birth is not an operation! You have the power to do it. Nature has designed us to do this job, so we got it all in place, we just need to use it! And the most powerful tool you have in your own hands: You have the power to give love to this planet with your child, a child full of love and gentle, born into a gentle live. What a great experience to take the power back into our hands and get as a bonus a nice little orgasm... Perhaps the first real one we have...

Ni Zain - Full of Oxitocin!

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