Tree of Life Midwifery

El rebozo is the Spanish word for shawl. The shawl has many varied and wonderful uses as a clothing accessory. After you’ve used it to seduce your mate, it comes in very handy during pregnancy, labor and birth. Traditional Mexican midwives would not attend a birth without a rebozo in their birth bag. It’s been used as a tool to help relax the mother, change the baby’s position, to help support the mother during pushing. After the birth it makes a perfect baby carrier. It’s easy to nurse discretely and fashionable with a lovely rebozo.

Pregnancy and childbirth are normal life events, not medical conditions.

A woman’s body is perfectly designed to give birth. This process works best when interference is kept to a minimum. It is our cultural conditioning, fear, poor health habits and intervention in normal birth that make birth difficult often requiring more intervention, including surgery.

Perfect health is our natural state of being. When we work to align ourselves with natural laws, we regain our health and ALL functions of our bodies begin to work normally. This is a holistic, preventative approach to healing. This is the midwifery approach to childbirth.

There are many wonderful authors who have done exhaustive research to explain the differences between the midwifery model of care and the medical model. Suzanne Arms, Henci Goer, Ina May Gaskin, Sheila Kitzinger are a few of my favorites. I strongly urge you to read their books.

For a list of these and other great books, see Tree of Life Midwifery: Recommended Books.