The Big Truth is that women have been giving birth for millennia without medical intervention. The first lying-in hospital for delivering babies was built in London in 1739. In historical time, that is recent. Another truth is that BIRTH IS NOT BROKEN. The late Dr. Michel Odent said, “When women are giving birth by themselves without any medication, there is a time when they are as if on another planet. That means that they are reducing the activity of the intellect. So women, when they are not guided, when they don’t feel observed, when there are not people around watching them…spontaneously find postures which make sense, which help them to release the necessary hormones.” A laboring woman needs privacy, security and protection from interference. Odent says, “They need to feel free, spontaneous, not to have read too many books…To pray is to reduce the activity of the intellect so you can reach another reality of space and time. It is exactly what laboring women need to cut themselves off from the world, to go to another planet.”
The Big Truth
