My Doula,She gave birth to you. And now, you’re thinking of having her join you at your baby’s birth. Does this setup work? What are the pitfalls? And which duos do best with the dynamic? Mothers and daughters talk about experiencing birth together.
Birth.
One of the most transformational — and miraculous — events of a woman’s life.
As the bluish baby takes his first breath and lets out a gusty cry it’s not uncommon for the tears to flow. But for Tzipporah now a proud grandmother who attended her first grandchild’s birth the tears came from a deeper place.
“I couldn’t stop crying” she recounts. “I helped my daughter take charge of her natural birth and then nurse her baby immediately afterwards holding him tight. This is my tikun I thought. This is the birth experience I never got to have.”
Some five decades ago recalls Tzipporah birth was a clinical sterile process. Heavily drugged and sedated — sometimes without prior consent — most mothers from her era have few joyful recollections of the experience. They describe condescending doctors counterintuitive birth positions and faulty anesthetic dosages that didn’t relieve the pain but caused hallucinations or utter confusion.
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