by Bahram Saba | Dec 12, 2012 | Excerpt
<< Back to Excerpts Wholism – The Medical Model meets Natural Birth ‘People do the strangest things at births,’ said one of my teachers. Very true. And not out of wanting to be eccentric, but oft en out of creativity, or even desperation. I...
by Bahram Saba | Dec 12, 2012 | Excerpt
<< Back to Excerpts Faith – Sacred Birth There was much love in the room. I felt the presence of my mother’s spirit, or so it seemed to me – almost as intensely as it had been just after she died.’ Jane, in labour In our modern culture, we...
by Bahram Saba | Dec 12, 2012 | Excerpt
<< Back to Excerpts Caring – Nurturing Breastfeeding Breastfeeding a baby is a most sublime and natural act in the sphere of nurturing. But like birth, breastfeeding is occasionally fraught with difficulty, requiring guidance, skill and determination to...
by Bahram Saba | Dec 12, 2012 | Excerpt
<< Back to Excerpts Tolerance A midwife friend told me the above story. What a wonderful illustration of judgment in action. How easy it is to make assumptions and react from those assumptions, and confuse what we believe is a kind response with a reaction. From...
by Bahram Saba | Dec 12, 2012 | Excerpt
<< Back to Excerpts Energetic Relationships in Birth What happens energetically when we interact with others? What is this interactive energy? Where does it come from? What do we mean when we say the energy was ‘intense’ or ‘good’ or...
