Wild Embers

“We are the descendants
of the wild women you forgot
We are the stories you thought
would never be taught.

They should have checked the ashes
of the women they burned alive.
Because it takes a single wild ember
to bring a whole wildfire to life.”

― Nikita Gill

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The ability to birth calmly and confidently is instinctively within us, birth is both primal and intuitive; it is something our body is designed to do and if we just allow it to do what it needs to do, it actually does it really well.

 

Sadly maternity care has become very heavily medicalised and everyone seems to be having additional scans or tests during their pregnancy which makes it really hard to trust our body to do what it's so very capable of, we're putting all our trust in the machines, technology and the health care professionals and denying our own capabilities.

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Having had three very different pregnancies and two out of guidelines homebirths I want to encourage as many birthers as possible to trust in themselves and question the paths they're automatically led down, because there is so much more to pregnancy and birth then NHS policies and procedures!

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We need birthers and birth partners who trust in their bodies, their babies and feel empowered to confidently grow and birth their baby in their own time - not to a certain gestation as suggested by the RCOG's or NICE guidelines and not within a certain time frame as dictated by the Dr on shift. So that the birth experience results in happy, healthy and confident families.

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We need to we ignite those embers of the wild women who birthed in communities, led only by experienced women who regularly attended births.

We are the wildfire.

We need to bring calm, confident and empowered birthing back to life.