Ep 18 Your Home Birth Guest list- Party or Disaster

Empowered Birth, Love, and Life

Your birth guest list (not just your team but the other people you want to invite) can make or break your home birth. Having too many people there can put a LOT of pressure on a laboring mom to progress or to not let out noises she needs or go inward. Too much distraction at your birth can disrupt the hormone flow. From family like mother or sister to the best friend, any and everyone coming to support you needs to be super familiar with home birth and everything involved. If your husband and mother don't get along, I highly suggest not putting both in a sacred space together at your birth. If you have a clingy toddler or a toddler that is still breast obsessed and you are touched out, I HIGHLY suggest finding a place to take the toddler during your birth so you can fully surrender and not be distracted or bothered. For all stages of labor! Having a team of people who fully support your decision and are respectful to each other and the birth portal, is super important. Shift changes and people showing up last minute in a birth can completely disrupt the progress and energy that has been held. If you really want your mom or sister or best friend there, let them know your doula or partner will contact them when you say you feel ready to have them there. It could be at the beginning of labor or it might not be at all. I see a mom change her mind 98% of the time..... Once you are IN labor you want privacy and not a lot of prying eyes. Just prepare them to respect whatever decision you make in the moment. In the meantime have them take my childbirth course so they are prepared fully! haaaa!
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