With the birth of my fourth baby, Maia Rose, in 2000, I experienced giving birth as our foremothers may have: birth as pure instinct and pleasure. I came to see from my reading, my observations, and my own experiences-just how profound is the imprint of birth and early mothering on child development and family relationships. Through my research and writing, I also learned about the evolutionary wisdom of bed sharing and long-term breastfeeding, and the positive impact of secure attachment on lifelong mental health.
I felt strongly that parents deserve to know this, so that they can distinguish cultural disapproval from genuine risks when they evaluate birth and parenting choices. I was excited to discover that many birth and parenting practices that I had instinctively chosen-for example, homebirth, bed sharing, and child-led breastfeeding-were well supported by evidence from science, anthropology, psychology, and medicine. I became especially interested in exploring the nexus between biomedical perspectives and gentle approaches in birth and mothering. In the years that followed Jacob’s birth, I took an extended break from my work as a family physician, gaining more opportunities to explore my path as a mother and to write about my experiences. Holding my new baby in my arms, I wished that every family could be so blessed by birth. Jacob’s birth, my third at home, had been intense and yet ordinary, challenging but joyous, and ultimately ecstatic and fulfilling. Today we chat about her own four beautiful homebirths, diving deep into the hormonal blueprint of labour and birth, what types of things can interrupt that hormonal flow, and how we can fill in these hormonal gaps.THE SEEDS FOR Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering were sown in the blissful days and weeks following the birth of my son, Jacob Patrick.
Coming from a long line of GP’s, she was influenced by her own experiences working in hospitals and by what she noticed with the birthing women there. Dr Buckley is well known for her groundbreaking report "Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing", the product of her ongoing interest and research on the hormones of labour and birth. She is also the author of the international best-selling book "Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering" - which is available for purchase on the PBA website. Buckley.ĭr Buckley is trained as a GP with qualifications in GP obstetrics and has been writing and lecturing to childbirth professionals and parents since 1997. On today’s show I have the privilege of interviewing Dr Sarah J.
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