'niether here nor there'

[Jo & Dean Bainbridge]

Which brings me to something I have been thinking about lately.....Can any one think of someone they know who feels neutral about their birth experience? Neither here nor there?  It just was? I  wonder if there are many women out there that feel that way.  I can't think of anyone I know like this. Working with women with the common factor of caesareans, I have found that some of the women who chose cs because of the convenience factor (you know the ones who usually get the media attention!) are the ones who don't really put too much into the birth itself.  The birth is just the process get the child...and the cs is the quickest (!!), cleanest and easiest way to get the goal.    Hmmmm....   This is a small minority group however, but they are the group that gets the media coverage and have influenced the attitudes towards birth.  I find that when trying to push to find a deeper feeling about the birth itself, these people just tune out to the person talking to them and especially themselves.    I think it is sad that women feel they have to close that door to the primeval part of their womanhood.  The 'cancer' of today's society is isolation physical and emotional. gotta go and extract a two year old from the cupboard their brother just locked them in......or perhaps lock myself in there! cheers Jo Bainbridge founding member CARES SA email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 08 8365 7059 birth with trust, faith & love...