Since loosing my son in childbirth a year ago I have been asked so many questions — the most common being:“Do you advocate against freebirth?”
After 3 days of labouring at home we transferred to the hospital where I continued to labour for 8 more hours. I spent the next two days on life support, in a coma fighting off a rare blood infection while the ICU doctors worked around the clock to bring my organs back to life.
Over the past year I have been in the deepest and most humbling grief which has given me space to reflect on my birthing experience. I am not even close to being the woman I was, and my understandings of birth, life, and death have shifted dramatically.
For the purposes of this recording I'm going to be sharing my thoughts and what I've learned so far. By no means are these statements of absolute truth; these are ponderings and musings and things that i've come to understand; as well as realizations and perspectives that i've gained over the last year.
If you have any thoughts, ideas, or perspectives that you want to share that could be valuable, I encourage you to write in the comments. If you have any questions about birth, I welcome you to ask them here as well.
The only way forward is through humble communication, respectful conversation and compassionate dialogue with a desire to understand one another is the way forward.
Come sit in tea ceremony with me and join this intimate conversation.
In reverence,
Emma
