Starting off

Off we go....

Since tellmeagoodbirthstory.com started out in the Spring, we have been collecting positive birth stories from all around the country....from Ipswich to Illminster, Manchester to Maidstone.....hundreds of them....

The stories of course vary, but in one way they are all the same. They contain the kind of honest, straightforward joy to make our breath catch...stories full of self-amazement, immense awe, hope... the stuff that lifts us all out of the dailiness of our lives to somewhere higher and very wonderful. That most extraordinary of ordinary events. A baby being born. 

These stories, the energy behind them - together they're like the most precious of metal - a resource - and we need to mine it and make it useful.  They need hearing....if we stand any chance of reversing the epidemic of birth anxiety, they need spreading...

Tellmeagoodbirthstory is already connecting pregnant women feeling anxious or even scared about birth with women who can share with them their positive experience - so we are well underway on the one-to-one front. 

But here in this blog, I intend to spread the good some more...here is where in some detail, women will tell their stories first hand....along with a little side analysis from me as doula detective.

My aim is, as always, to prove that a good birth doesn't come down to good luck.  I will keep saying it, keep showing it, keep shouting it, until maybe, finally, something will start to shift, and women en masse will once again realise that a simple birth comes down to a few simple things.

So look in next week....and hear how Rachel had her little girl...............

Natalie xx