Healing and Hypnotherapy Special Mega Annual Issue 21 June 2017 | Página 17

(related to fear) she cannot produce oxyocin, which is the hormone
not only needed to deliver the baby but also to deliver the placenta.
It is absolutely necessary for a woman during labour to feel at ease
and comfortable (unobserved and not judged), that she is uninhibited
to follow intuitively her blue print for labour and encouraged to trust
her body to complete this ancient and mystic process. Unfortunately,
few women ever have such conditions of privacy, safety and non-
disturbance, which is the fundamental problem for why women need
so much help when giving birth.
These days it seems more “natural” to replace natural oxytocin with
drips of synthetic oxytocin and natural en- dorphins by epidural
anaesthesia. So most women give birth without relying on the release
of their own natural hormones. The downside of the readily available
synthetic hormones is, that they do not have the same behavi- oural
effects as the natural ones. Synthetic oxytocin for example inhibits
the release of natural oxytocin from the woman’s pituitary gland. And
the artifical drug will be effective at stimulating uterine contractions,
but it will not reach the brain, meaning it will not have the „bonding
effect“ as the natural hormone.
Natural methods also require the woman to be an active participant in
the birthing process, which involves empowering her to listen to her
body and being able to change positions (walking, squatting, rolling,
hovering in water or just resting) – in contrast to a woman being stuck
in a hospital bed on her back with feet strapped, which has
consistently been shown to slow down and complicate labor.
“The same movements that get
the baby in, get the baby out.”
From Birthing From Within
Western societies have dramatically disturbed women during the
child birth process and these days we seem to have not only a lack of
an appropriate cultural model for childbirth but also a lack of time,
patience and trust in a woman’s body. Now, this raises several big
questions: What effect has this on the baby’s life and the individual
relationship of mother and child? How will humanity evolve over