User:Freelana

I have a B.A., English. I enjoy reading and writing essays, short stories & poems. I like the idea of learning more about how Wikipedia operates as I often use it for reference.

One of my many interests involves how our birth experiences may have effects on our physical, emotional, and psychological selves throughout our lives.

My interest in knowing more about birth practices began when I was a personal assistant to traveling families in San Francisco major hotels and a child care specialist as well. During these times I observed hundreds of newborns and had lengthy discussions with pediatricians, obstetricians, midwives and doulas who were also parents.

At that time I met a retired Occupational Therapist with a specialty in psychiatry, who was always interested in causality. She told me about her mother who was a delivery nurse and pregnant in the 1930’s. Her mother explained to her as a child the facts regarding conception, embryonic development, delivery, and questioning the severance of the umbilical cord. This is what started my interest in learning more about Lotus Birth.

l have read about the history of birth practices, starting with Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis’ Etiology Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever (1847); psychoanalyst Otto Ranks’ Trauma of Birth (1929); birth psychologist David B. Chamberlain’s classic, Babies Remember Birth (1988); obstetrician Dr. Sarah J. Buckley’s Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering (2009); and midwife Shivam Rachana’s Lotus Birth: Leaving the umbilical cord intact (2011). Freelana (talk) 12:24, 8 September 2014 (UTC)