They can be life-saving and also feel liberating. However, decisions often have to be made that overwhelm us as women giving birth and we cannot grasp the effects and dimensions of the interventions. That leave us feeling overwhelmed and alienated from ourselves, the baby or the birth process. And then suddenly the baby arrives and so many new impressions, constant challenges and feelings take over. Every moment has something new in it and there is no room to remember, feel and integrate the birth. I travel back with you to this place and examine and feel what was barely consciously felt at that moment and overwhelmed you. Even if an intervention has supported the birth in the best sense, a feeling of helplessness, sadness, fear and shock can remain in us and our bodies. We consciously reach out to these feelings to bring them back into our lives and give them the space they deserve, so that we as a whole being can re-enter the world well with everything we have experienced.
Birth interventions
In every birth, it may be necessary (or the person assisting may consider it necessary) to intervene in the birth process. There are many good medical reasons to do so and also very different ways.