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What Does it Mean to "Honor Your Body's Wisdom?"
When it comes to childbirth, "your body was made for this" is not the same as "your body holds the wisdom you need."
The first one upholds an unrealistic (and honestly ableist) standard that leaves people feeling broken when their body deviates from this over-generalization.
The latter statement honors the codes of ancestral wisdom alive in your DNA and aims to empower your ability to trust yourself in naming what is best for you—whether you're at home, at a hospital, medicated or not, uninterrupted or with medical interventions.
3 Things I'd Do BEFORE Becoming A Mother
Most people I’ve talked to express conflicted feelings about childbirth. There’s an inner pull, an assumption even, that birthing and motherhood are inevitable in their path but it’s always been paired with deep fears.
There’s fear of childbirth itself: the pain, uncertainty, and logistics required birthing within medical and political systems. Then there’s also fears rooted in the common wounds of our human experience: self doubt, fractured familial relationships, the future of the world.
Dear pregnant Siobhan…
I see you.
You’ve imagined becoming a mother for a long time and now it’s happening. You can’t wait to meet your baby, but the thought of giving birth and becoming a mother makes your chest and throat tighten.