![]() These changes give the new mother personal empowerment, physical strength, and an intuitive sense of her baby's needs, and they prepare both partners for the pleasurable mutual dependency that will ensure a mother's care and protection and her baby's survival. This is not just a good feeling the post-birth hormones that suffuse the brains of a new mother and her baby also catalyse profound neurological changes. When birth is undisturbed, our birthing hormones can take us into ecstasy – outside (ec) our usual state (stasis) – so that we enter motherhood awakened and transformed. This system, which I am calling undisturbed birth 1, has the evolutionary stamp of approval not only because it is safe and efficient for the vast majority of mothers and babies, but also because it incorporates our hormonal blueprint for ecstasy in birth. However, our women's bodies have their own wisdom, and our innate system of birth, refined over one hundred thousand generations, is not so easily overpowered. ![]() This has led to the erroneous belief that human birth is an intrinsically faulty system, and that modern women have lost the ability to give birth. In modern Western countries, including Australia and the UK, rates of obstetric intervention have reached extreme levels, such that very few mothers and babies experience labour and birth without drugs and procedures to assist or hasten the process. Sarah Buckley shows us what is stopping birth working ![]()
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