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Divine Design: Birth
Birth is hard and painful no matter which way it goes. However I’m told it can be “orgasmic”, beautiful, soul-opening, and down right easy with the right tools. My first year as a Pregnancy Postpartum Strength Expert God revealed those tools to me. If the pelvic floor pulls pressure up when you close it, it must allow pressure to shift down when you leave it open. So I reversed the diaphragmatic breath. I had my clients do this in every posture just like we do while strength training. Several positive client reviews later and I was teaching these tools to the other coaches. Six and a half years later and I’m proud to give women the tools they need to meet change, pain, and unpredictability with confidence and trust. I’m proud to remind women that they can birth with ease no matter what others have experienced or their own previous experience.
A question I get at least once a year is, “How do you train women for birth when you’ve never given birth before?” I used to respond with “Well has your orthopedic surgeon had shoulder, knee or hip surgery?” I was a bit green and defensive then...now I say, “How does an athlete train for their first triathalon? They practice. They move and eat with intention. They increase their strength. They remove what is not serving them. They remember the goal and their divine design. Training mothers and soon to bes for birth is the same. Well kind of...we talk a lot more about vaginas, but you get the idea.”
Truthfully training pregnant women came more natural to me than training athletes, birth being what our body is built for, and the fact that I want at least 7 babies myself...yes you read that right...as many babies as this body and God will give me. Yeah I’ll be stressed, life will be messy as ever, but to me that’s the idea. I will live this life to the fullest and make the most out of every breath I take.
You might have thought the first thing you did Earth-side was cry, but in fact the first thing you did was breathe. You took a deep breath in, and that inhale activated your sympathetic nervous system, “fight or flight” stress response...and then you cried.
Birth is the first time we experience gravity, are supplying our own oxygen and blood supply, and the furthest we have ever been from our mother. You can call birth our first stress. It is not until we are soothed, can hear moms heart beat, smell her smell, are held, given a nipple or bottle that we begin to fully exhale, activating the parasympathetic nervous system, “rest and digest” state.
The balance of your breath, inhale to exhale, allows you to complete the stress-recovery cycle. Only when completed do you receive rest and the powers to heal and grow. At minutes old, you inherently understand that your breath, your life force, is responsible for your longevity.
However age, life experiences, traumas and our own proclivities can lead us to forget.
So how do we remember Divine Design?
That's coming next.
For now, I'd love to know for the mamas who’ve birthed — what surprised you most? And for those who haven’t yet — what’s your biggest takeaway about birth?
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Divine Design: Birth
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