Question of Safety

This last week 2 of my daughter had a car accident that totaled the car. 2 months ago my other daughter had an accident and totaled her car. They all walked away including the little ones . They were sore with  a bit of whiplash that will take some time at the chiropractors getting the kinks worked out.


When these young women got into their cars they didn't think that they were going to wreck and even if they had because of the ice on which they were driving it likely would not have changed anything.

They do not get into the car now and think about the death and injury statistics about cars and how dangerous they are. Driving in cars is a foreign practice. Meaning that it is man made and not natural to the human body yet we trust it because it gets us where we want to go. Other than some flashbacks once in awhile they are now driving without fear.

Why are we so afraid then of birth. Birth was designed and not man made and gets the baby where it needs to be.

Almost every young woman that comes into my home after we start talking about birth gives a shudder and is frightened. If we have a talk about cars they are not frightened they are even excited to get a new one. They are more likely to die or have a child die in a car accident than in birth. Why is there so much fear surrounding birth.

It is irrational. There is no where in life that we can expect to be safe and without danger. That is a fact. There are viruses, bacterias, disasters, accidents and all forms of possibilities that could threaten to or take our lives or those of people that we love at any moment. We do not sit around thinking about that. People that do are put on medication  or are in therapy as it isn't a healthy way to live yet.... why do we do this about birth?

Where have the messages that you play in your head that make you shudder about birth come from? Do you trust the other information that you get from those sources?

Birth is not a medical event , it is a life event ,and as such there are no assurance other than the assurance that we walk out in every day in our lives.  That is a lot of assurance. We walk out boldly knowing and trusting that floor boards will hold us up, that cars will get us where we are going, that the food we eat will sustain us and that we will wake up in the morning.

My mom injured in a car accident 21 years ago, still in a wheelchair and her 3 great grandbabies all born at home.

We only need apply this to birth we already know how to do it.