Religion and Childbirth?
Your religion, regardless of what your religion may be, is central to who you are as a person. Whether your faith is in a higher power, or you believe there is no higher power, what you believe influences your outlook on the world around you, the events of your life and your ability to respond to them. Faith can be a source of strength and encouragement to help you labor effectively and normally, and religious disciplines can be used as comfort measures during labor.
Your faith is also important because of the spiritual nature of childbirth. Your faith affects the way you hear suggestions and advice from friends, websites and books. Words that may be perfectly acceptable to a person with one faith may be unacceptable to a person of another faith. Because of this, your childbirth preparation should, at least in part, be presented from the point of view of your religion.
The Birthing Naturally website offers information on childbirth from a Christian perspective because that is my faith and I understand its principles and core beliefs. It would not be fair to women of other religions for me to try to interpret for them how their faith interacts with childbirth because I do not have a working knowledge of other religions. If you are not a Christian, I urge you to find information about how your faith affects labor through other websites (such as JewishPregnancy.org if you happen to be Jewish) or browse through some of the Christian information to get an idea of ways you can incorporate your own faith into your childbirth preparation.
Many blessings with your pregnancy, and thank you for inquiring.
Jennifer Vanderlaan
Related Topics:The Coach's Notebook explores more ways to prepare for childbirth with comfort measures and techniques you can use. Prepare your physical body for childbirth with exercise and nutrition. The Christian Childbirth Resource Directory lists websites, books and organizations all created to help you honor God through childbirth. Birthing Naturally Books publishes books to help you grow closer to God during this special time of life. Find childbirth professionals near you in the Natural Childbirth Directory. |
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