by Leah
While I was pregnant, I read up on natural childbirth and homebirths, watching videos our childbirth educator/doula sent us and trying to get a sense of what it would be like. Several mothers talked about how spiritual labor and giving birth were: experiences of opening themselves up to the love that was pouring forth out of them, of feeling so close to God or Spirit, of divine ecstasy when they first looked on their child's precious face. So I can be forgiven for thinking that this whole L&D thing was going to be kind of groovy and meditative, that it might even bestow upon me some spiritual epiphany that would blow my mind.
Ha.
While I was pregnant, I read up on natural childbirth and homebirths, watching videos our childbirth educator/doula sent us and trying to get a sense of what it would be like. Several mothers talked about how spiritual labor and giving birth were: experiences of opening themselves up to the love that was pouring forth out of them, of feeling so close to God or Spirit, of divine ecstasy when they first looked on their child's precious face. So I can be forgiven for thinking that this whole L&D thing was going to be kind of groovy and meditative, that it might even bestow upon me some spiritual epiphany that would blow my mind.
Ha.