I am very late in on this thread and haven't read all of the e-mails on the
topic. I like mooing. In Canada, I talk to mums about bellowing like a
moose. Roaring is also good. Had a mum recently who was a real roarer,
and in fact explained to her 5 year old that she was having a good time
roaring just like a lion, so it was all O.K. He seemed to be reassured by
this, even though we had heard him fall out of bed when he was woken by her
belly roars!
Meaghan
At 10:21 PM 8/13/05, you wrote:
Dear Andrea and Miriam
I love your emails and am mooing myself happily
Again it shows the wonderfull instintcs women have
I have not been with women who have mooed but from my time with homebirth
midwives and then clients and also in my singing for non singers course
I learnt that deep noises rather than high pitch ones (screams0 are the
ones to encourage as they send the energy down into your abdomen and then
to the uterus and baby
whereas the high pitched looses energy out of the body through the head
Mooing is a low pitch noise!!
Where I did my mid in the UK the maternity unit was out the back of the
hospital and overlooked pastures with cows and I remember saying to the
women we humans need to reconnenct with nature to nurture and now birth
our young!!
Denise Hynd
"Let us support one another, not just in philosophy but in action, for the
sake of freedom for all women to choose exactly how and by whom, if by
anyone, our bodies will be handled."
- Linda Hes
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tania Smallwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au>
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 3:03 PM
Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] sounds during labour/birth
Sorry for the late input on this, have been cruising the South Pacific with
my family, but am catching up on many emails now...don't feel too sorry for
me!
Ah Miriam, you have such a way with words! I too was beckoned as a student
midwife only a few years ago to join in and feel the love with a woman who
could only be described as mooing, and it was a very connecting experience
for us both. It also meant that the supervising midwife, who was obviously
not at all comfortable with birthing noises (funny that, how she was very
comfortable with cleaning noises, people barging in to look at charts
noises...) kept her distance and just let 'us'go for it!
I myself moaned and groaned and then growled my way through 18 hours of
labour first time around, and there are shadows of the school kids walking
past the bathroom window on the video just before Sam is born! I still
wonder why no-one knocked on the front door to see what was going on in
there!
A friend who has recently had her first homebirth after several hospital
births has commented on how she thought she was a quiet birther, but then
after birthing at home, realized that she did indeed feel restricted in the
hospital, and that she now thinks that she was aware of feeling like her
midwives would judge her if she was too vocal in the hospital. Interesting
stuff.
Tania
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