"Your spirit as a woman has all the knowledge and power you need to give birth and to nurture your baby. It is in your genes. it has been there since you yourself were conceived. You can trust its wisdom."
-Gurmukh Khalsa
I use this quote on mostly anything having to do with my doula practice and I keep using it because I believe it best sums up my philosophy behind my services. I truly believe that we are all born with the knowledge, power, strength and intuition to birth our babies safely, and take care of them once they are born. However I also believe that sometimes, okay most of the time, we allow the medical world and the entertainment industry to scare us into thinking that we are not cable of any such things. This is where my job comes into play. My goal for every family I serve is to encourage and remind the woman of her inner strength, of her goals, of her baby, and of her power. My wish for those families is that they will be satisfied with the experience of their child's birth whether is goes according to their wish list or not. My hope for each mother is that she will indeed trust her spirit and her body to do what it needs to, to get her baby out of the womb and into the world safely and with as little pain as possible. I encourage any expectant mothers who read this to reflect on this quote a few more times, and truly believe it.
