There is great potential for conflict in desiring a natural birth in a hospital. How do you avail yourself of medicine without allowing it to turn your birth into a medical event?
Allison EvansFebruary 25, 2019
When someone has run a marathon, do we call that a ‘so what’? When someone climbs a mountain, do we call that a ‘so what’?
Allison EvansDecember 9, 2018
Sometimes hospitals do birth right and manage to be what expectant parents want: safe and supportive of her physiology. I was recently privileged to be a labor companion to a childhood friend who gave birth in just such a hospital.
Allison EvansSeptember 15, 2016
For ten years now my work has been to help mothers prepare for a "great birth.” But a new essay has me questioning whether morality – judgment of what is right or good – belongs in birth at all.
Allison EvansAugust 18, 2016
Like everyone else who has access to any form of media, I was taught the story that birth is grueling, painful, and dangerous. While I believed it one level, my parents gave me two particular experiences in childhood that helped me to overcome that programming and have great births.
Allison EvansJune 17, 2016
When you get the context right, it’s possible for birth to take care of itself: it can unfold organically, not mechanically; the more loved and supported we feel during labor, the more physically comfortable and actually safe we are.
Allison EvansJune 10, 2016
What do you want, friend? Goose your intention by taking a risk. Just take a step, one step, towards center stage – or allow yourself to be pushed.
Allison EvansJune 3, 2016
It is a joy to watch these betwixt-and-between fathers uncoil during our first session. The skeptics open their mind. The over-protective soften. The disconnected engage. The couple begins to have a shared experience, rather than a his-and-hers.
Allison EvansMay 20, 2016