We graduated our BIRTHING FROM WITHIN class this week, and it was a great experience for both of us.
Our teacher was the excellent Carrie Foster Evans, who the wife formed a spiritual connection with and ended up hiring to be her doula. We were lucky her due date fell later in July, after CFE returns from shepherding her two sons to bagpipe camp.
The class dovetailed nicely with my feeling that it's an unknowable process you can only prepare for in the most general ways, like rafting down an unexplored river gorge. The class taught us how to pick a good raft, how to strap into your life vest and ways to navigate around the worst rocks and waterfalls.
The best part for the wife was the emphasis on trusting your body and your intuition, and constant positive reinforcement that it's something women have been doing since the dawn of time.
We're behind the whole attachment parenting/continuum concept route of childrearing and Birthing From Within was right in the same zone of trusting ancient human practices over the invasive, control-freaky attitudes of many Western doctors & child psychologists.
We've done the prep, now we'll see what happens!
I'm hoping my Couvade goes away after the blessed event, or I'm gonna have to buy some new pants. =(
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