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Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 10:52
AM
Subject: 'niether here nor there'
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
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love...