Normalizing Birth for Children
My eldest son witnessed his first birth around 1.5 years old. He stood with his little rubber boots on the fence and held on to the cable and watched as the calf emerged, feet, then face, then a wet body slipping out onto the bedding pack. I’d like to say it was a beautiful and life changing moment for him, but it wasn’t. He didn’t think there was anything much special about it. He saw calves of various sizes every day and he must have just realized that the life of a calf has to start somehow. So when I told him that the mama cow was pushing a calf out of her body, he took it as a perfectly normal occurrence.
Birthing a child is not a medical disorder or event any more than conceiving or carrying that child is.
[bctt tweet="Women were designed to birth, and God doesn't make mistakes."]
What are your thoughts and/or experiences with children attending birth?Â