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A Hand Full of Hope
If we hope to create
a non-violent world
where respect and kindness
replace fear and hatred
We must begin
with how we treat each other
at the beginning of life.
For that is where
our deepest patterns are set.
From these roots
grow fear and alienation
~or love and trust.
~ Suzanne Arms
I went to a Doula gathering with Suzanne Arms in the city on Sunday, and it just so happened that she needed a ride to the event, so Melissa and I volunteered to pick her up.. what a great time! At the talk she advised us as Doulas to look into our own lives and trace out own births back to link it to cycles that repeat in your life time.. For instance she was taken out of her mother by forecep, without getting to finish her own birth process... and now 50 years later, she has hardly ever finishes a project that she started.
I was thinking about that.. and after I found out about my own birth a few months ago.. this makes sense... I was taken from my mother the second I was born to be put in an incubator, adn didn't bond with anyone for the first 24 hours of my life and those are the hours that are most crucial.. this could be the reason why number one I have barely any trust in anyone, and I have a really hard time actually making a connection with people. Sometimes I even avoid looking at people in the face as a form of bonding..
Brain research shows that things like this with infants prove true later on in our lives.. that our birth is a developmental feat and that we need to go through it to prove to ourselves that we can survive.
Imagine what a feeling of accomplishment the baby has once it has maunevered its head.. and twisted its body and made it our of it's mother's body without and drugs, or help by being torn out by foreceps or vaccuum.. I think that people think too much about the mother's work in Labor.. I think that they do work alot and it is a trying time for mothers, but more people need to think and pay attention to the amazing journey that a baby makes to join us.
Babies born to mother's that have not taken drugs during their labor have amazing survival instincts.. If a newborn is placed on its mother's abdomin, within the first hour of birth it actually has the stregth and knowledge to be able to crawl up the mother's stomach anf self attach to the mother's breast.. That is why a woman's ariola get so dark when they are pregnant.. so that the baby can see them clearly..
If we hope to create
a non-violent world
where respect and kindness
replace fear and hatred
We must begin
with how we treat each other
at the beginning of life.
For that is where
our deepest patterns are set.
From these roots
grow fear and alienation
~or love and trust.
~ Suzanne Arms
I went to a Doula gathering with Suzanne Arms in the city on Sunday, and it just so happened that she needed a ride to the event, so Melissa and I volunteered to pick her up.. what a great time! At the talk she advised us as Doulas to look into our own lives and trace out own births back to link it to cycles that repeat in your life time.. For instance she was taken out of her mother by forecep, without getting to finish her own birth process... and now 50 years later, she has hardly ever finishes a project that she started.
I was thinking about that.. and after I found out about my own birth a few months ago.. this makes sense... I was taken from my mother the second I was born to be put in an incubator, adn didn't bond with anyone for the first 24 hours of my life and those are the hours that are most crucial.. this could be the reason why number one I have barely any trust in anyone, and I have a really hard time actually making a connection with people. Sometimes I even avoid looking at people in the face as a form of bonding..
Brain research shows that things like this with infants prove true later on in our lives.. that our birth is a developmental feat and that we need to go through it to prove to ourselves that we can survive.
Imagine what a feeling of accomplishment the baby has once it has maunevered its head.. and twisted its body and made it our of it's mother's body without and drugs, or help by being torn out by foreceps or vaccuum.. I think that people think too much about the mother's work in Labor.. I think that they do work alot and it is a trying time for mothers, but more people need to think and pay attention to the amazing journey that a baby makes to join us.
Babies born to mother's that have not taken drugs during their labor have amazing survival instincts.. If a newborn is placed on its mother's abdomin, within the first hour of birth it actually has the stregth and knowledge to be able to crawl up the mother's stomach anf self attach to the mother's breast.. That is why a woman's ariola get so dark when they are pregnant.. so that the baby can see them clearly..