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Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth: Healing for Mothers and Babies
A therapist and childbirth educator shows how connection to nature and the spiritual world can heal birth trauma and preserve the health and well-being of mothers and babies.
• Encourages mothers to reconnect with nature and spirit to heal old wounds and have deeply satisfying birth experiences.
• Provides convincing evidence that prenatal and birth experiences have a lifelong effect on emotional health.
• Fosters a close and abiding bond between mother and child.
Have you had a birthing experience that fell short of your expectations? What was your mother's experience when she had you? Do you long for a deeper bond with your loved ones? In Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth , Benig Mauger suggests that our prenatal and birth experiences affect us for the rest of our lives. And because our modern approach to birth separates mothers from their primordial knowledge of natural delivery, many people suffer from lifelong birth wounds. Mauger invites women to reclaim the connection to their own instinctive, intuitive, and inherently spiritual creative powers.
The West's rational, mechanistic worldview wreaks havoc with the birth experience as it leads to ever increasing levels of high-tech medical intervention. Induced labor, fetal monitors, and pain-killing drugs alter the natural rhythms of delivery. This scientific approach puts medical personnel in control of the birth process, leaving mothers and their babies with a profound sense of loss. Drawing on her experience as a birth teacher, therapist, and mother, Benig Mauger suggests that by reconnecting with the natural and spiritual world an expectant mother can make the birth experience her own, thereby healing old wounds and allowing herself both a deeply satisfying delivery and an abiding spiritual connection to her child.
• Encourages mothers to reconnect with nature and spirit to heal old wounds and have deeply satisfying birth experiences.
• Provides convincing evidence that prenatal and birth experiences have a lifelong effect on emotional health.
• Fosters a close and abiding bond between mother and child.
Have you had a birthing experience that fell short of your expectations? What was your mother's experience when she had you? Do you long for a deeper bond with your loved ones? In Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth , Benig Mauger suggests that our prenatal and birth experiences affect us for the rest of our lives. And because our modern approach to birth separates mothers from their primordial knowledge of natural delivery, many people suffer from lifelong birth wounds. Mauger invites women to reclaim the connection to their own instinctive, intuitive, and inherently spiritual creative powers.
The West's rational, mechanistic worldview wreaks havoc with the birth experience as it leads to ever increasing levels of high-tech medical intervention. Induced labor, fetal monitors, and pain-killing drugs alter the natural rhythms of delivery. This scientific approach puts medical personnel in control of the birth process, leaving mothers and their babies with a profound sense of loss. Drawing on her experience as a birth teacher, therapist, and mother, Benig Mauger suggests that by reconnecting with the natural and spiritual world an expectant mother can make the birth experience her own, thereby healing old wounds and allowing herself both a deeply satisfying delivery and an abiding spiritual connection to her child.
216 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2000
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February 25, 2016
Just beautiful and eye opening
February 14, 2015
First had a hard time to understand it ( for the first 2 pages ) but then it was a eye opener why I did things during pregnancy the way I did it and how it has influenced me and the relationship with my daughter.
Well done research and well written.
Just have to remember it is written from a Therapist therefor may not be easy to understand for non medical personal.
Well done research and well written.
Just have to remember it is written from a Therapist therefor may not be easy to understand for non medical personal.
July 5, 2015
I specifically chose this book because it is in line with my beliefs. The author takes a Jungian look at pregnancy and childbirth. For some , it won't be so much enlightening as reaffirming. Personally, when you're pregnant and many people are sharing stories with you and expressing their own personal fears, reading something that is reaffirming can be a good thing.
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