In some antenatal classes the educators will actually tell you to not make any noise during labour, since that will distract you from focusing your energy in the right direction during birth. I’ve heard of many women being told by nurses in the hospital setting to keep quiet to not ‘frighten the other women’.
The idea that there is a ‘right’ way to behave or even worse, a ‘wrong’ way to behave is unhelpful, judgemental and in my opinion show a lack of basic knowledge about how birth works.
This is a short episode, but something every mother & birth educator should take to heart. Women’s behaviour has been judged and controlled throughout history. We are supposed to be ‘good girls’ – do as we are told and not create any problems for anyone.
However, the act of giving birth is primal and ‘wild’.
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Yours In Birth,
Carla
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