I just finished a book, "Prenatal ecology" of the French obstetrician Michel Odent wonderful that brings together articles from all eras, both his books and his lectures and his website, all with a common theme, which gives title to the work.
Odent talks about the way in which different cultures have addressed a natural and physiological issue such as childbirth, interfering with it and disturbing its normal development with the most varied justifications.
The desire to control childbirth and to help women to go through it have resulted in human females being deprived of the aspects that make childbirth an event of their sexual and intimate life, leading them to give birth tied, immobile, observed and manipulated, on the back and with all kinds of devices invading your healthy body, inhibiting the normal development of a natural birth without complications.
For millennia cultures have intervened in childbirth, changing the connection of women and children with their own bodies and their emotions. And Odent believes that a change in these actions from a loving perspective, something as simple as giving birth in peace and establishing the link without interference, can mean a change that provides the basis for a new planetary society.
Our female bodies, givers of life and food, have been contaminated with numerous chemicals, and continue to be manipulated at the most important moment in the life of a new being, its birth, when we already know that what happens in those moments is enormously important. for the emotional development of that person throughout their entire existence.
"Prenatal ecology" by Michel Odent It is an enlightening and indispensable book that I recommend.
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