As a Midwife for over 20 years I am heartwarmed with the story that appears in the Hello Magazine 30th January 2012 edition. It is so inspiring to read about Kate Silvertons' experience of her birth to a very very pretty daughter - Clemency.
So often we read of celebs opting for an elective c-section and not wanting to seek, find and touch their inner woman spirit and birth goddess. A goddess that reminds us that a woman has been designed to give birth for eons of time. The womb and birth canal, the whole labour process a wonderful journey into motherhood once understood with the inner spirit. Yes I have given birth and felt those contractions too!!
So strange in a day of designer clothes and labels that the most perfectly designed anatomy of a woman is so often not appreciated or given any credit or confidence to its birthing ability..
But here we are a lovely lady with so much obvious love for her husband and both with a desire to have a child as a product of that love. So desperate that fertility treatments were tried and yet little Clemency was conceived naturally. Then with that love Kate seeks a way to be supported through a natural birthing experience.
In that search she found a very kind and caring Obstetrician that I have met and have much admiration for - Dr Gowri Motha. A Dr that sought to find a more gentler way with birthing and challenging why could she as a doctor only offer forceps, ventouse and surgical delivery. So with her cultural background from Sri Lanka Gowri developed the Jeyrani Birthing way... something that midwives have known for some centuries but not always stuck their ground to protect in the mainstream care pathways...
But Gowri believes in cultivating a more positive birthing experience than is often perceived or in fact lost in a clinical setting.
You can read about Dr Gowri Moth and her approach if you visit
http://www.gentlebirthmethod.com/about_jeyarani.php
Reading this article - oh how I wish I was back practising as a midwife and I would have loved to have been with Kate on this wonderful journey into motherhood. She is my kind of mother for sure and I would have been so satisfied as a midwife to see her through this experience and be part of this wonderful birth.
I have had many a sweet, seductive birth even in a busy teaching hospital and I am so privileged to have been part of those births - and so touched at helping mothers find their inner goddess of birth...
Little Clemency is a spit image of her mother as a baby - so adorable,
This article cheered me up on a miserable cold rainy January day.. just when I was feeling lost in being lost in life - this inspired me...
Sadly it will not be possible to return to practice - but from me I wish Kate all the very best and do enjoy that little lady for she will soon grow up ... every minute is precious and there is so much to learn and share from her..
Clemency makes me laugh she is taking all the photos in her stride for the Hello magazine... and the most wonderful photo is that of Kate nursing her baby - wow Kate - you maybe a celeb news reader but you are an Earth Mother of sure... enjoy!
http://www.hellomagazine.com/
