Because I'm a birthing woman and...

Posted on 17/12/2007 at 9:14 AM - Post Comment

Because we are too short, too tall, too thin, too small of foot, too old, too young, too wide, and our pelvises are too narrow, too small, too untried, or unproven or the wrong shape, and our uteruses are too scarred, or pointing the wrong way, or we are too multiparous, too fertile, too infertile, too female, too small, too big, too fat, too emotional, too detached, too strong, too weak, too intelligent, too well designed to birth, not designed well enough, and our vaginas are too scarred, too unproven, not stretchy enough or too stretchy, and we’re too inconvenient, too unpredictable, too demanding, too informed, too loud, too messy, and our bodies labour too long or not long enough, and our cervices don’t dilate 1cm an hour on command and because when you hire a surgeon you get surgery and hospitals are for sick people…

and so for these and many other reasons, we are part of the homebirth movement.

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Posted by Corin on 20/12/2007 at 6:11 AM - Link

That's right! That's exactly why I am homebirth. Well said.

Corin
www.thehumanpacifier.blogspot.com

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Posted by wildmama on 20/12/2007 at 2:01 PM - Link

Glad it speaks to you, Corin!
:-)
wildmama

Excellent Blog Award

Posted by Corin on 29/1/2008 at 9:06 AM - Link

You've been awarded The Excellent Blog award. Please visit my birth blog, www.thehumanpacifier.blogspot.com, to claim your award. Congratulations!

Birth & Booby Festival!!

Posted by Anonymous on 22/3/2008 at 3:03 AM - Link

HELLO THERE!! I ought to have known it was you, Janet! I thought, Wow, those Aussie womyn are getting ORGANIZED, LOL. And I see that you are, too, which ROCKS! Anyway, had to comment that I pink puffy heart the pic of you breastfeeding with yer boob bigger than yer babe's head. That was me both times, too, and I remember the first time an ICAN'er pointed it out in a complimentary way, it made me think, hmmm...if my breast is bigger than the child's head, surely I CAN make enough milk to feed him?! :>D And after Seamus, my mantra was: I GREW HIM IN MY BODY FOR 39 WEEKS AND GAVE BIRTH TO HIM AT HOME STANDING UP WITH NO MEDS DeSPITE BROW/POSTERIOR PRESENTATION IN JUST UNDER 12 HOURS, so feeding him oughta be a cinch, huh? Anywho, I look forward to perusing your site tonight in my free time. Lots of love and power you to you, Fearless Heroine!! Jessa from St. Louis, MO ~ now living in Denver, CO http://www.andfosterbabymakesfive@blogspot.com

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Posted by wildmama on 7/5/2008 at 8:20 PM - Link

Hiya Jessa! Great to see you here :-) I'll pop over and visit your blog! You should come visit my forums ;-)