Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth: Healing for Mothers and Babies

By Benig Mauger

A therapist and childbirth educator shows how connection to nature and the spiritual world can heal birth trauma and preserve the health and well-being of mothers and babies. - Encourages mothers to reconnect with nature and spirit to heal old wounds and have deeply satisfying birth experiences. - Provides convincing evidence that prenatal and birth experiences have a lifelong effect on emotional health. - Fosters a close and abiding bond between mother and child. Have you had a birthing experience that fell short of your expectations? What was your mother's experience when she had you? Do you long for a deeper bond with your loved ones? In Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth , Benig Mauger suggests that our prenatal and birth experiences affect us for the rest of our lives. And because our modern approach to birth separates mothers from their primordial knowledge of natural delivery, many people suffer from lifelong birth wounds. Mauger invites women to reclaim the connection to their own instinctive, intuitive, and inherently spiritual creative powers. The West's rational, mechanistic worldview wreaks havoc with the birth experience as it leads to ever increasing levels of high-tech medical intervention. Induced labor, fetal monitors, and pain-killing drugs alter the natural rhythms of delivery. This scientific approach puts medical personnel in control of the birth process, leaving mothers and their babies with a profound sense of loss. Drawing on her experience as a birth teacher, therapist, and mother, Benig Mauger suggests that by reconnecting with the natural and spiritual world an expectant mother can make the birth experience her own, thereby healing old wounds and allowing herself both a deeply satisfying delivery and an abiding spiritual connection to her child.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892818964
• ISBN13: 9780892818969
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Healing Arts Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth

This book is a must for anyone who has experienced a traumatic birth experience, or has a fear of birthing. I have had three hospital births that were complete medical managed experiences, very traumatic. I am planning a homebirth with my fourth child (due any day), and found this book to be a godsend for helping me heal that part of me that was so traumatized with my previous births. I cannot wait for the experience at home with my family and a Midwife!

Healing Birth

This book values pregnancy and birth as processes which have life-long impact on woman's self esteem, her health, her ability to nurtutre, and her personal growth. For women who had none satisfactory birth expereinces and carry deep "soul-wounds" from painful birth experiences, this book is a must read.