19/02/2026
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What if we choose to align with positivity and joy in birth. How different could our experience be??
Society, television shows, and movies portrays childbirth as an inherently awful, painful, and dangerous experience. For generations, Western culture has perpetuated the idea that labor is an agonising, traumatic event that must be endured.
Where is the perspective that says normal, straightforward, or empowering births are possible!?
A combination of cultural conditioning, the medicalisation of birth, media sensationalism, and historical narratives equate pain with safety.
What if we choose to move away images of women screaming in pain, lying on their backs, and in need of rescue.
Because what we do know is- what you focus on, is what you feed. If you are feeding the doubt or uncertainty that it’s going to suck, then guess what, it will!
But if you nurture the possibility that it will be positive thats the hardwork, thats the heart-work.
Birth can absolutely be beautiful 🤍✨
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