The Doctor is NOT the enemy, the system IS, what part do you play?

Happy New Year!

I have been intentionally quiet and sitting with my thoughts, for the last 10 or so months, pondering if this topic would make waves in the birth community. Would people be mad at me for these thoughts, would people question who I am as a birth professional, or why I do this work? I have to admit, there were many times over this last year (YES, with everything going on), where I thought, uggggh, if I see one more person saying something about a medical professional and that we need to “take back our power” and focus on home birth, I was going to lose it. Those conversations, many of them, completely turned me off and made me want to push back from this work almost completely. Why? You might ask. How can wanting people to return to what we know is safe, effective, birth management, natural, physiologic birth, a problem? It’s not. I support, encourage and WANT for people, all people, but especially POC, to return to our essence and unlearn all of the fear surrounding birth.

Birth is beautiful and exhilirating and when you get to witness it in its purest form, you get to see how powerful and life changing, undisturbed, supported, out-of-hospital births can be. They are life-altering, and soul shifting, on a cellular level. Every birth has changed me. My disdain has everything to do with the…