She shares links to the Formative Words that helped her down the path to Freebirth.
This is a really great post.
Jenny Hatch
My comment on Rixas Blog in response to her post:
One of the things that surprised me the most about doing my own prenantal care was how very seriously I took the job at hand.
I had thought during my first three pregnancies that I was particularly proactive and worked hard to make a healthy child, but until I took it upon myself during my fourth pregnancy to do the whole pregnancy without seeing anyone for anything, my own definition of personal responsibility took a swerve up into the clouds.
In the past twelve years friends who discover that I gave birth alone are very surpised, but they are completely gobsmacked when I tell them I did my own prenantal care.
The ripple effect into a family is powerful. I continue to observe friends who do so much for older children that they are completely capable of doing for themselves.
My own children seem to feel the spirit of Freebirth in our home. They are so proactive on so many levels of their lives. Not claiming they are perfect mind you, but the sense of “I can do it myself” is very, very strong in our home.
Currently I am enjoying my four year old Ben as he gradually weans from our Family bed, and attachment breastfeeding. He is so confident some days. He wants to sleep in his own bed, nursing is for babies, and he is the MAN in little boys body.
Yet he has moments of complete surrender to his needs as a little person, and happily reverts back to a mommas boy for nursies, naps, and snuggle time in bed with mom and dad. He is my first child that will self wean, I had to use extreme coersion with three previous babes to get them off the breast. My daughter stopped nursing at 4 and a half, not because she was ready but because momma was tandem nursing during a pregnancy and could not do it anymore.
My next two boys were both weaned on third birthdays, although they were also not ready. I tried to wean Ben on his third birthday for consistencies sake, but he moped around for a week and was so sad, I did not have the heart to do it.
I find it no accident that this child who was Freeborn Lotus Style, who has such acute intuition to his own needs as a preschooler that he regularly informs me in direct and very clearn language exactly what his needs are in the moment, I find it no accident that this pattern of internal confidence to know his own needs continues on.
During his pregnancy I would regularly talk to him to ask what he needed from me in terms of exercise, nutrition, etc etc… And he guided me through my dreams, my mothers intuition, and spirit to spirit to know exactly what he wanted. Up to the second he was born, I was being guided, mostly by him (and his assorted guardian angels).
This perfect guiding is SO MUCH more powerful that an outside paid hireling giving his or her “expert” opinion on the various issues of pregnancy.
I challenge all women to take on the task of growing and birthing the baby all by themselves. It will change everything in your life.
Jenny Hatch
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