I spend alot of time redefining inaccurate preconceptions and working women into a place of acceptance for their individuality. Even though I spend a great deal of time educating women before their birth experiences, misconceptions are still hard to overcome especially because they are sold as popular ideas in books and magazines. I actually feel fortunate for my extreme birth experiences and what I had to go through to get my babies out. But I gained an enormous advantage because of it. It liberalizes the birth event for them because they don't feel bound to live up to any sort of pre-fab ideal.
Birth is an individual experience and expression of self.
Midwives and attendants should support it that way. And, I could never have stood in line for today's popular rescue remedy, the almighty epidural. I've always considered unnecessary, misrepresented intervention to be a sad and shameful bill of goods. I know birth as the ultimate empowerment. A place unique to me as a women.