by Bahram Saba | Dec 12, 2012 | Excerpt
<< Back to Excerpts Awareness – I am and I work as ‘I was told I shouldn’t wear my Doc Martin boots to work because they didn’t look “professional”‘. ‘Don’t give me that’, I said. ‘They may not...
by Bahram Saba | Dec 12, 2012 | Excerpt
<< Back to Excerpts Practice – Focus & Connection through Labour Many mothers instinctively ‘tune in’ and adjust to the natural rhythm and unique order of their labours, especially if they are relatively straightforward. Often however, the...
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...
