S. Tenuta
3-10-25
What is the optimal birthing space for a baby? If you were born again, what would be the parameters you would set to be born? Would you want light, darkness, starlight, moonlight, noise, quiet? Would you want interference or constant checking up on your heartbeat? Would you want no one to bother you?
When people study different groups of people around the world, there are varied experiences. Some people have babies at home. Some in hospitals. Some in fields. Some in water. Each place has unique experiences, yet each mother who is in tune with her body, has common experiences.
The natural hormonal birthing space for baby is often set in cinque with the circadian rhythms. A mother may feel surges during the day, and in the middle of the night, the surges pick up, open mother up and baby arrives. Babies tend to arrive when it is quiet, when the stars are out, and often during a full moon, or a rain storm. This is probably due to mother’s body reacting to the barometric pressures, causing her body fluids to react to such changes in the world.
When a woman is in the hospital, interfered, interrupted, examined, the natural hormonal process is stalled and inhibited. It makes it harder for mother to feel her own inner wisdom or to sense her own intuition. This hospital is a place for emergencies, but not really for observing the natural process of birth. The water in a lake, pool, or bathtub, can help a woman be calm, and relax during surges, as her body and muscles relax and stretch in a way that allows baby to find its way to earth. It is truly amazing how the woman’s body is made to be so in tune with the baby and with the process of birth, even if the mother would be in a coma. The body naturally is programmed to know what to do.
Can our brains get in the way of this wonderful process? It sure can. If a person is too analytical or wanting to be in control, the process does not naturally occur. If a person is fearful of the process, the natural process can not happen. If a person has been traumatized in the pelvic area, birth can often re-traumatize the person if the trauma has not been fully explored, processed or released. If a person has a tension with the spouse, or a person in the room, the natural process of birth can also be inhibited.
For a woman to find that perfect birthing area, it is important that she will not find it by depending upon others to tell us what to do. She will not find it if she thinks she hired a doula or a midwife or a doctor to back her up or to reassure her. She will only find that perfect birth space when she becomes comfortable with who she is, recognizes her own inner power, strength and wisdom. She needs to feel confident with whatever decisions she makes during this labor, birth and parenting initiation time.
So again, the natural hormonal birthing space needs quiet, needs trust, needs forgiveness, needs openness, calmness and intuitive wisdom. It needs a woman to trust her baby’s wisdom, to trust her own sensations, to trust her instinct, to trust her body. If there is an issue, the woman who is truly in tune with her baby and the process, would recognize if there is a movement that needs to be made, if there is a position that needs to be had, if she needs to stand, or lie down, or sleep, or rest, or push, or breathe into a moment, or to squat or to be on hands and knees. If there is a problem, the woman could voice her need to go to another provider. That is the beauty of the natural hormonal process of birth.
After baby is born, mother still has the power to speak, or rest and trust that her baby is near her. The hormonal process is not completed for a few hours. Baby sometimes needs to do what we call the birth crawl. During that time, the baby is telling its story of how difficult it was to come through the birth canal. It could be that it was easy for baby, but this is the time when baby crawls from the birth space up to mother’s chest in order to suckle. At the same time, mother too is in need of baby’s motions, motions to stimulate the belly, tightening up the muscles that just released baby. Mother needs baby’ to suckle on the breast so the hormones will create the milk that baby needs to drink and for baby to ingest the colostrum, that golden beginning milk which sets up baby for a strong immune system. Keeping baby connected to the placenta is wise, and the placenta will separate from mother during this birth crawl.
For an hour after the birth, or more, this is a time for baby’s system to rework the cardiovascular system. It is a time for mothers’ wounds to start healing. It is a time when the oxytocin is released as high as it can for probably the family’s lifetime. It helps the bonding of mom to dad and dad to baby, and mom to baby and baby to any family members present. It is a hormonal orchestration which will never happen again.
Now what if there is an emergency that happens? Then the parents can try to re-ignite a hormonal imitation later, but it would not be as strong as this first hour after birth. We know when there are trauma’s it takes time to heal. This would be a delayed process.
This is surely a simplified explanation of the importance and the natural hormonal birthing space. May more babies have the chance to be born in this natural hormonal birthing space. It benefits baby’s emotional memory. It benefits the bonding of the family unit. It helps baby begin a healthy immune system. It in essence can give a good beginning to healing our troubled societies and world. Do you know someone who would benefit from knowing some basics for experiencing the Natural Hormonal Birthing Space? In Touch and In Tune would love to be a part of your information search. Check out the website.
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