1 Traditional humans also isolate themselves during labor The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecessarily. It is implicit in the mammalian interpretation that one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. When you consider birth as an involuntary process involving old, mammalian structures of the brain, you set aside the assumption that a woman must learn to give birth. It’s in our genes.Īs physician and natural childbirth advocate Michel Odent reminds us: It is as natural to us as eating, breathing, digestion, elimination and sleeping. Like our mammalian relatives, human females are designed to give birth safely in the wild without supervision or medical intervention.
These similarities should be starting point when try understand the process of normal, undisturbed birth in our own species. We share the same 175 million year evolutionary heritage of birth with other mammals. Human beings are mammalsĪs often as we forget this, human beings are mammals. And the horse, which is normally a daytime grazer, gives birth during the night for the same reason. The rat, which is normally a nocturnal prowler, gives birth during the day to increase the chances that she’ll be unobserved. A rhesus monkey will move away from her group to the edge of the forest and choose a well-camoflauged hiding place in which to give birth. In the wild, mammals isolate themselves during labor.Ī pregnant sheep, which is normally a herd dweller, will separate herself from the flock when birth becomes imminent. Kloosterman, The Universal Aspects of Childbirth The only thing required from the bystanders is that they show respect for this awe-inspiring process by complying with the first rule of medicine – nil nocere Spontaneous labor in a normal woman is an event marked by a number of processes so complicated and so perfectly attuned to each other that any interference will only detract from the optimal character. The hormonal orchestration of an undisturbed birth.What kind of environment inhibits a female in labor?.Traditional humans also isolate themselves during labor.
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