Med-Wives vs. Midwives and the Politics of Home and Free Births
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In this episode I speak with writer, holistic birth witness, teacher, coach, and mentor, Yolande Norris-Clark.
Not only does she do amazing work in the realm of holistic pregnancy, birth and self-sovereignty, she’s become a formidable voice in the “truther” movement, speaking eloquently and incisively to things most people barely dare to think, let alone say out loud.
We discuss:
What happened to midwifery? How did it get co-opted?
Do “traditional” midwives still exist?
What is the true and ideal role of a midwife?
WHO were the original vendors of “snake oil”?
What is the true cost of “letting someone do it for you?”
What changes in a woman when she births her baby in power and sovereignty?
What is free birth?
When people think of having a home birth these days, their first thoughts are often to find a midwife, who will support their decision to give birth at home, and be there as a potential safety net.
And now, many hospitals have their own on-staff midwives.
However.
In the times since 99% of women used to give birth at home with or without any outside assistance, in the early 1900s, to now, where only 1% of women give birth at home, a lot has changed.
The modern midwife has become more of a “med-wife” than a mid-wife.
The dominant messaging from the medical profession, which midwives have been largely co-opted into, is that YOU do not have the power.
Rather than serving as in intermediary between a woman and the allopathic system, she as become an ambassador for it.
Instead of protecting a woman from unnecessary, invasive and damaging procedures that are de rigeur in modern “medicine”, she is instrumental in facilitating them.
In the last few years since I have began bringing awareness within my work of the role of conscious and even ecstatic birth as the ultimate culmination of the sex act, one of the main messages I emphasize is that the power to birth resides within each woman:
The power to birth in a natural, autonomous and orgasmic way.
Birth either becomes an initiation into your own power, autonomy and sovereignty, or it becomes a massive imprinting on your psyche and body of the outsourcing of it.
The cost of this outsourcing is much higher than most people realize, in how it impacts their power—or powerlessness—in their entire lives.
Both as a mother and a woman overall.
The reward of truly seizing this power and claiming the spiritual upleveling and self-realization of an empowered birth, is the most empowering experience a woman can have.
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