The Pink Table by YogaBellies: Bite-Size Yoga and Wellness for Women
Health & Fitness
Over the centuries, birth has grown to become the most dreaded event in a women’s life.
In today’s media, frequent images of pain, blood and screaming are being seen as the standard of childbirth today. Programmes such as One born every minute perpetuate this image of birth, traumatising us further by making it appear to be the real life insight into birth. The majority of women have come to expect massive trauma while giving birth. This has pushed many of us towards taking advantage of the medical world’s range of interventions now available: Choosing from a veritable buffet of drugs or opting to miss out on vaginal birth altogether and electing to have baby birthed through Caesarean section.
In more recent years however, we have begun to see a resurgence of women seeking to find out more about birthing naturally across the Western World. Women everywhere, are attempting to reclaim their birth right: To birth without intervention, without drugs and often birthing out-with the hospital environment or even in water.
As pregnant women, we are seeing natural, alternative or holistic birthing options becoming more mainstream and more widely available to us. Different mediums allow us to educate ourselves on the non-medical aspects of birthing, through the internet, books, TV and film. More and more of us are aware of the work of doulas (birth companions), many training formally to become birth companions and even assisting other women in this way. This inspiring push towards reclaiming birth is finally, allowing us to have real options and to make decisions about our own experience of birth, out with the generally accepted model of hospital birth. This is all fantastic news, but has it gone too far, pushing women towards feeling inadequate if they don’t choose to birth naturally?
Find out more about the Birth ROCKS method at www.birthrocks.co.uk
Cheryl MacDonald (a.k.a. Chhaya or the pink yoginii,) is the founder of women’s yoga collective YogaBellies with over 100 teachers teaching the YogaBellies style for women at every life stage, across the globe. She is the creator of the Birth ROCKS natural birth preparation method, a women’s sexual wellness expert and author of Birth ROCKS, The Yoga for Life Journal and YogaBellies for Pregnancy. She is mother of one lovely 9 year old boy and currently lives with her husband in Singapore, loving yoga, all things woman and life in general.
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