Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Birth and the ocean

I wrote the following today in response to a FB comment in which a woman said how much she dislikes the adage "Trust birth."  (I generally agree with her, though I understand the impetus to remove some of the excessive fear around birth in our society.)

I always say I trust birth like I trust the ocean.  I trust it to be powerful, to have some constants but to be unpredictable, to be bigger than I am, and I don't turn my back on it.  I can learn skills to help traverse it, but I can't control it.  It can be beautiful, peaceful, awe-inspiring, and it can wreak havoc.  It predicates life but can take life.  And I love being around it.

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