Violet's Cradle Pathfinder: Normal discharge or Mucus Plug? That is not the only question..., and a good midwife usually has a trust inspiring answer, by Sigrid Countess von Galen
Violet's Cradle Pathfinder: Normal discharge or Mucus Plug? That is not the only question..., and a good midwife usually has a trust inspiring answer,
by Sigrid Countess von Galen
In times, where so much of our lives is being monitored, registered, externally controlled and technologically hijacked, it is almost impossible to escape the pressures of social media, contradictory and even counterproductive 'expert' advice in public outlets even and especially in pregnancy.
We are being bullied into sharing and giving away our most intimate experiences and life events to at best competing companies and at worst some greed based multi-nationals, who like to control our children even before their conception.
We are bombarded with offers of products and services by a whole host of smokescreens that want to lure us into giving up our bodies, our children and even already our grand children, ranging from genome sequencing, IVF, fertitlity treatments and other pre-conception and pre-pregnancy options to well-being and medical measures that are often not even necessary.
Whatever happened to the respect of and trust in the natural instinct of the mother-to-be? How did our ancestors possibly survive birth as they did without all the fancy equipment?! Sure, birth rates and maternity care and special needs measures did improve with advances of medicine - but make no mistake, results and figures are also often not what they seem, when it comes to the reality of missed symptoms, false diagnosis and maltreatment nowadays.
I am not promoting to skip the doctors visit in pregnancy but I do advocate a better and more intimate collaboration between mothers-to-be, midwives and doctors. In modern society, we often have to put up with a range of bad and rigid and unfounded attitudes towards maternity care.
We should be drawing on the ancient line and art of midwives, who successfully aid new life into this world by combining their extensive knowledge, techniques and intuition with modern methodology. Mothers should also be given more freedom to make informed choices.
I have the utmost respect for the complex work of a good midwife, who is involved as much in the physical side of pregnancy and after-care as in the spiritual and psychologocial side of the three. Given the financial cuts and low budgets almost everywhere it seems like a miracle in itself, where there is a full midwifery service available.
Perhaps we have to return to some good aspects of the olden days, where women were selflessly serving each other as midwives, and undergo training to be ready, should the need arise in times of hardship and unrest.
Not just some convents provided midwifery care but also simply women in communities, who doubled as midwives and thus enabled less well-off women to have their baby at home. Older mothers are also often failed by an prejudiced and technologically and philosophically overpowering system that ignores the reality of many cultures that do not look at a pregnant mother as an object of science but who treat her with respect and at her and her baby's real needs and facts.
A society that neglects midwifery is a society that also neglects health and well-being and true education and nourishment of body, mind and soul of its people.
https://www.babycenter.com/0_vaginal-discharge-during-pregnancy_270.bc
by Sigrid Countess von Galen
In times, where so much of our lives is being monitored, registered, externally controlled and technologically hijacked, it is almost impossible to escape the pressures of social media, contradictory and even counterproductive 'expert' advice in public outlets even and especially in pregnancy.
We are being bullied into sharing and giving away our most intimate experiences and life events to at best competing companies and at worst some greed based multi-nationals, who like to control our children even before their conception.
We are bombarded with offers of products and services by a whole host of smokescreens that want to lure us into giving up our bodies, our children and even already our grand children, ranging from genome sequencing, IVF, fertitlity treatments and other pre-conception and pre-pregnancy options to well-being and medical measures that are often not even necessary.
Whatever happened to the respect of and trust in the natural instinct of the mother-to-be? How did our ancestors possibly survive birth as they did without all the fancy equipment?! Sure, birth rates and maternity care and special needs measures did improve with advances of medicine - but make no mistake, results and figures are also often not what they seem, when it comes to the reality of missed symptoms, false diagnosis and maltreatment nowadays.
I am not promoting to skip the doctors visit in pregnancy but I do advocate a better and more intimate collaboration between mothers-to-be, midwives and doctors. In modern society, we often have to put up with a range of bad and rigid and unfounded attitudes towards maternity care.
We should be drawing on the ancient line and art of midwives, who successfully aid new life into this world by combining their extensive knowledge, techniques and intuition with modern methodology. Mothers should also be given more freedom to make informed choices.
I have the utmost respect for the complex work of a good midwife, who is involved as much in the physical side of pregnancy and after-care as in the spiritual and psychologocial side of the three. Given the financial cuts and low budgets almost everywhere it seems like a miracle in itself, where there is a full midwifery service available.
Perhaps we have to return to some good aspects of the olden days, where women were selflessly serving each other as midwives, and undergo training to be ready, should the need arise in times of hardship and unrest.
Not just some convents provided midwifery care but also simply women in communities, who doubled as midwives and thus enabled less well-off women to have their baby at home. Older mothers are also often failed by an prejudiced and technologically and philosophically overpowering system that ignores the reality of many cultures that do not look at a pregnant mother as an object of science but who treat her with respect and at her and her baby's real needs and facts.
A society that neglects midwifery is a society that also neglects health and well-being and true education and nourishment of body, mind and soul of its people.
https://www.babycenter.com/0_vaginal-discharge-during-pregnancy_270.bc
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