Is it even possible to have a normal birth after a Caesarean section? Experiences from Kira - a personal report

When I was already in the 41st week of my pregnancy, I was looking for a midwife who I would be willing to put my life in her hands at any time. Even though I had been at peace with myself on a rational level over the past few days, doubts began to creep in.

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Instead of getting standard advice from the midwife: "a natural birth after a first caesarean section doesn't work in most cases anyway", the midwife addressed my inner doubts directly. Basically my inner birth being with the words: "You are a lioness 🔥" (😭)

Although the answer scratched my core a little, it was what I slowly became in the days that followed and ultimately during the birth... a lioness who roared her child into the world ✨

This midwife holds a special place in my heart and is the kind of midwife I hope to become. A midwife who is not only a medical midwife, but one who integrates her senses, uses her intuition and draws on ancient midwifery wisdom 🤌 We all need someone to believe in us as we transition into motherhood and I want to be the one who believes you 🤍

Midwives carry the kind of wisdom that requires time and space to be passed on to midwives-to-be and to be practiced in meeting with pregnant women, laboring and childbearing.

That's why I have the relationships for midwives in mind and if they were more, more pregnant and giving birth would experience midwives with trust in the woman, the body, the birth and the child in the womb, I am convinced 😌

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