The Roots of Love and Violence: Birth & the Primal Period Symposium I, Part 1

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Included in this 1-hour film are 1) a newborn researcher in South Africa; 2) the experience of a woman who grew up in a close-knit matriarchal family in Central America and moved to a large U.S. city, where she gave birth; 2) an African-American male artist’s experience of healing birth-related trauma; and 3) the experiences of a woman who was raised in a tribal village in Burkina Faso, Africa coming to live in the U.S.

Hosted by Suzanne Arms

Contents Include:
– the science of epigenetics
– growing our cells either in a state of defense or fully and the longterm impact
– the similarities between sexual arousal, orgasm, post-orgasmic feelings and partner bonding, and labor, birth, the brief time afterward, and mother-baby bonding
– the impact of pharmaceutical drugs on breastfeeding and attachment
– hormones in birth
– how human babies are born prematurely compared to other large mammals
– the need of human babies for months of skin-to-skin time
– scientific proof of mother’s body being the best “incubator” for very small or premature baby
– the impact birth trauma can have on our lives
– feeling welcome vs isolated and lonely
– tribal wisdom about babies and children
– one tribal village’s practices to prepare for conception and pregnancy