Dear Gaye, Women know how to breathe beautifully during labour and birth.
The breathing taught in Lamaze classes and the like is another form of
mind/body separation, which, while effective for some, for others it is not,
as when they cannot get the rhythms right, they feel they are losing it.
While this physio probably has genuinely altruistc reasons for wanting to
include breathing in her classes, can't she/he see past the breathing
(CONTROL) and believe that women have breathed their way through birth for
milennia. It is time midwives started seeing how much more in tune women are
with their bodies when they do not separate mind from body - when the mind
body connection is strong and sure. Have you not listened to the breath
sounds of a woman nearing birth change? Often it is as if she sings her baby
into the world! Hope this gives you something to think about. All the best,
Lynne Staff
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From: Carey and Gaye Riebau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, 22 August 1999 14:07
Subject: teaching breathing in antenatal classes
>Dear all.
> Have been 'lurking' for a while and now would like your opinions on
>teaching breathing in AN classes. I have been a midwife in the hospital
>system, for nearly 20 yrs and also taken the AN classes for nearly 3
>years. From my experience working with woman in childbirth I probably
>don't think a lot of using 'breathing', haven't really seen it to work,
>But I have an enthusiastic new physio who thinks she/I should be
>teaching this in classes. I do talk about breathing/ relaxation but not
>in any great depth. Wondering if anyone has seen any studies, research
>on this issue, any books? ( I have Andrea Robertson's "The Midwife
>companion") which mentions this issue.What does ' Guide to effective
>care in childbith' say? have 'lost' my copy.
>TIO GAYE
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