The "Normalizing Birth" Playlist: 10 Stories to Find a Better Vision

Watching and listening to other people’s birth stories can give us a better vision of what birth can look like for us!

Watching videos of women giving birth may sound strange, but back in the day and still in many cultures, younger women were present for many births long before they gave birth themselves.

So in this post, I am sharing positive stories of women giving birth naturally. Everything is covered up in these videos! You can definitely find the more graphic birth videos for educational purposes, but I am not sharing anything like that… I am sharing simple, appropriate, positive videos of women giving birth naturally.

WHAT WE SEE AFFECTS OUR EXPERIENCE

OUR CULTURE MAKES PEOPLE BELIEVE BIRTH IS SCARY

The culture around us shapes our minds more than we may realize. And the culture around us is heavily shaped by the entertainment industry.

In movies and tv shows we watch, birth is portrayed as an emergency. Birth is shown as something scary, immediate, stressful, and gory.

The typical labor scenes in movies go like this: The woman feels totally normal, all of a sudden her water breaks, everyone is screaming as they immediately speed to the hospital to be saved by the doctors.

THE MIND IS A POWERFUL TOOL

I have my masters in sports psychology and one of the biggest things I learned is the importance of what we think and how that affects what we experience.

We also know that what we consume can quickly become what we believe.

So if all we’ve ever seen are the scary redactions of birth on TV, then we most likely will only view labor as scary. This will lead us to be tense and have more pain when it comes to labor, bringing forth our fear into reality.

This is why I believe watching, reading, and listening to positive, natural birth stories is such a powerful tool!

10 POSITIVE NATURAL BIRTH STORIES

Below, I am linking 10 positive natural birth stories that I think can be very beneficial to you whether you are pregnant and preparing your mind for birth or if you are interested in seeing the truth of birth rather than what is portrayed in our culture today. I hope one of them inspires you!