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On Natural Birth...
The real question about safety is not whether you want a pleasant birth at home or a safe birth in the hospital ? It is, “Do you want to give birth at home and run the miniscule risk of an emergency that might (but not necessarily would) be handled better in the hospital, or do you want to give birth in the hospital and run the considerably increased risk of infection, the certainty of additional stress, and the near certainty of having unnecessary (and potentially risky interventions?”) ~ Henri Goer

Members of the home birth movement have chosen their alternative form of care not through faulty understanding of medical principles, but as a result of active and reasoned disagreement with them. ~ Bonnie O’Connor

About Clare

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On Being a Midwife

 

Traditional midwives have been helping women birth since the beginning of time. Our ways have not changed. We know that birthing is natural and a woman has the ability to birth simply and safely. We have never relied on machines, drugs and the modern technology to help with birth.

 

I share these words with you as the ones before me did with me. My words are important to me. I have worked with birth for thirty years. Some of the last of the traditional midwives in North America told me their stories and to them I have the greatest of respect. I share what they shared with me. Their stories have help guide me in my work. Their ways and stories are still strong and alive throughout the world.

 

The traditional midwife helps with this preparation of the mother and baby who will do this journey together. This amazing journey is so instinctive in them. We allow both the mother and baby do what they know how to do best, birth naturally and both keep in touch of the power of birthing. Giving birth is an honor and a privilege for both the mother and baby to do together. Birth is about opening up your mind, body and spirit and feeling your sweet baby come through your body. They are blessed to be able to birth and it is a ceremony that carries them throughout the good and hard times in life. It is a time when the woman and family bond together. It is a time when a woman realizes her strength. Most fathers choose to “catch” their babies in the births I assist with. Women today choose what kind of birth they want just as the birth attendant chooses how they want to work and view birth.

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Meet Clare

My work with birthing women is an extension of all my work. The work in the gardens keeps my mind aware of the power of nature, birthing is just that to me. The importance of healthy food for the mom and
baby connects me to the health of mother earth. Working toward the protection of mother earth and the water is the same to me as working with the diet of the mother. What the mother eats is a reflection of
the health of the baby and the well being of the earth, water and air.

 

Building a healthy family by birthing my children naturally at home, breastfeeding them for many years and teaching them at home with their father, has helped me in my work. Building healthy communities
locally has taught me with my work in other communities. 14 years ago I went back to Sicilia to connect to my roots. At this same time I was asked by the medical community on Greece to help start the
birth movement in Greece. With the rapid rise of Cesareans and medical births and the homebirths almost done away with we had a lot of work. The success of the birth movements is documented in BIRTH
MOVEMENTS. Now in 2008 we have a natural birth movement at home and in birth centers in Greece, Sicilia and Bulgaria. Going back to my roots has been powerful.

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