Great Truths, Insights & Paradoxes about 'Birth' | ||||
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There is now a wealth of research that confirms the following: |
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| | New-born babies feel EVERYTHING - exquisitely, passionately, excruciatingly! | ||
| | Birth is probably the most impactfull experience we will have this lifetime and the decisions we made at birth are decisions we made about life. | ||
| | The negative decisions we made when we took our first breath are at the core of all human conflict. | ||
| | The imprint we get around birth is meant to last for a lifetime. We expected an imprint so we could adapt to our environment. What we did not expect was an imprint of pain and separation. It was, for most of us, way outside our range of adaptability. | ||
| | Our experience of conception, pregnancy and birth is directly related to the way we approach the creative process in life. | ||
| | Babies can learn and make decisions in the womb and what we experience during pregnancy affects how we experience birth. | ||
| | Birth is neither a medical event nor a disease. Medical intervention is usually unnecessary and should only be used in emergencies. | ||
| | Bright lights, drugs, Caesarean, forceps, cutting the chord too early are just some of the extreme forms of medical intervention that can cause birth trauma. | ||
| | Through millions of years of evolution, a baby EXPECTS to be born naturally, without intervention or separation, and allowed to bond immediately with its mother. | ||
| | If the bonding and positive imprinting with mother does not occur right after birth, it probably never will. This is a ‘critical’ period! | ||
| | Without this expected bonding, there could be depression for the mother and agony for the baby. | ||
| | A human baby expects, according to evolution, to be held in arms right after birth and for at least the next 9 months. | ||
| | Only in arms does an infant know itself to be right and good. | ||
| | Having a baby is the most natural thing in the world. Birth is meant to be ecstatic! | ||
| | When a baby screams at birth, it not just a sign of a healthy baby, it is more a sign of agony and desperation. | ||
| | It is imperative that we welcome the beingness and the consciousness of our new-borns, and stop seeing them just as bodies. They need to feel included at birth! | ||
| | The traces left by the tortures at birth are everywhere to be seen: on the skin, in the bones, in the stomach, in the back, in all our human folly, in our madness, in our torture, in our prisons, in legends, epics and myths! (Frederik Leboyer) | ||
| | Having a traumatic birth can cause people to have the thought that ‘pleasure is followed by pain’, having come from the relative safety and comfort of the womb. | ||
| | Research shows that most violent criminals had a complication at birth and they were separated from their mothers. | ||
| | The quality of birth affects the quality of life and thus impacts and shapes the quality of society. | ||
| | It is vitally important for the planet, at this crucial time, that we improve our birthing practices. The new-borns of today are the leaders of tomorrow. We need leaders who know they are right and good, and who lead from the heart.
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