The Roots of Love & Violence: Birth & the Primal Period: Symposium II Part 1

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This film is Part 1 of the 5-hour film series created from Birthing The Future’s 2nd International Symposium “The Roots of Love & Violence: Birth & the Primal Period.”

We hear from women and men from widely diverse professions and backgrounds, including a western-trained psychiatrist’s person inner journey to the sacred feminine; a panel of men – fathers and a grandfather – and a gay woman on on their experiences of fathering/co-parenting; a British father talking about his the challenges in his experience of supporting his wife in having a natural vaginal birth after a cesarean, and who decided to shift from hospital to having their baby at home; a Dutch nurse who discovered upon moving to the U.S. and working in a large hospital as a labor and delivery, maternity, newborn, postpartum and home heath nurse; a psychiatric nurse discovered just how different the paradigm for birth and the postpartum is in the U.S. compared to Holland, her travels and work in Thailand, the former Yugoslavia, and what she learned about herself as an adoptee; and a former rugby player’s decision to work with abandoned children and his journey as a foster and then adoptive parent

Topics Include:

• the pioneers who change the world
• the jealously a female co-parent was surprised to find herself experiencing after their mostly positive birth experience in the hospital

– the differences between the archetypal masculine and the archetypal feminine, the realm of the soul and how ego-shattering doing inner journeying can be

– what a physician discovered to be the serious limitations on maternity leave in the U.S. and the negative impact on breastfeeding when women go back to work

– the discoveries of a woman adopted at birth regarding deep-seated patterns she discovered that were related to her relinquishment and adoption that had unconsciously shaped her life

– abandonment issues most adoptees have and how modern labor and delivery practices cause babies to feel abandoned after birth

– the difference between Holland’s model for birth, a country that has had more midwives than obstetricians and the dysfunctions of American hospital-based obstetrics

– an example of the appropriate use of technology in birth

– learning to listen to the wisdom of the womb (uterus) and how sometimes the contractions are slow because there’s a cord around the neck of the baby and too frequent, too strong contractions could cause the baby to go into distress

– the lack of proper postpartum care and support after birth and the results

– the need to help couples address any wounds they may be carrying about their own conceptions, in-womb life, and birth before they birth a child

– the biochemistry of our emotions

– facing our own shame and anger (related to how we were born and raised) as parents and not taking it out on our children; and the critical importance of breaking the cycle of intergenerational abuse in families

Suzanne Arms is the Host and a feature speaker