Birth Goddess

I am Erin EmberStone and this profile was created from the need to give attention to a passion I have for birth and needing a separate place to have that unfold was very much required. I have another page but this vital and important aspect of my being deserved its own place to flourish and grow and network. So I created Birth Goddess. I always liked the GODDESS aspects of womynhood - the ability to be the barer of life... The term Earth Goddess is familiar and resonates somewhere in my soul. And so evolved for me the term Birth Goddess. Its a term I think embodies all of us, as the women who can create and give life and nurture it into being.I am a doula and natural childbirth advocate. I am a personal trainer specialist who does pre-natal health and fitness and post-natal reconstruction(tm).I am...an aspiring midwife! Many times along the path world politics has stepped in and changed my mind. For many years I have been studying BIRTH. Yes- yes I have read the books and watched the videos and even gone to lectures and meetings and all sorts - but when I say studying - I mean something more primal. I mean something more essential. Something more intrinsic. I began watching and listening and feeling. I followed womyn I knew into their labours and listened to their stories. I searched for answers to my theories and applied what little speculative knowledge I had to data which came from a variety of other sources and have arrived at a conclusion which may not be right for everyone at this point in time, but I believe its right, its right for me, and I am so happy and relieved to learn that I am not the ONLY one who feels this way.I know now that birth is not an enterprise. Its not an industry, or a business which we have so sadly been lead to believe. There should be no money made off of it and THAT my friends is where we went wrong. When we attached a price to the skills of the midwife, we betrayed our sisters. We went against what the natural world trained us to be - our Goddess given vocation. Our Primordial, primeval profession. As preistesses we were EXPECTED to birth one another and deliver our sisters and learn the sacred ritual of birthing ourselves. We were not meant to hand over the blessings of our bodies to another and transform it into something clinical and medical. When we did we perverted our pregnancies and polluted our parenting. We threw the baby out with the bath water before we even bathed it. Now I know this will stir some controversey but then again so did The Budha, and Rosa Parks and Cleopatra and L.Ron Hubbard and Gloria Steinam and Boudicca the Queen of the Iceni and Joan of Arc and Jesus and his WIFE Mary. Come to think of it, anyone with high ideals that was ever worth a damn and had a message, stirred the pot - so for all you out there who would string me up and slam my ideals, MEH!!! Your name will only be remembered if you challenge me head on. Thats not a threat - its an invitation. Yes I am THAT confident!!!When the time comes my babies will be delivered into mine own hands or that of the father who created them with me. I will be surrounded ONLY by those womyn whom I know and trust as friends and mothers to their own offspring. This is my choice and my path. And you are welcome to come along for the ride. There is much to learn and much to share my friends, and this is really only the beginning. I really REALLY strongly believe birth to be much of a rite and a ritual, sacred sexuality coming to fruition - and I think we should be moving away from the industry, because a natural beautiful birth should be attainable for every woman.To the midwives who earn a living currently; My goal is not to deter you from earning an income. It is not my intention. There are many ways in which we need to support ourselves and its not so much that people are earning money in a practice where they are HELPING - its about BIRTH being an industry for the modern western medical model which has me bothered. I would like to see a new era of birthing emerge, something sacred, something that we are taught in girl-hood on our journey into mothering. But that transition will take years... in the magnitude of centuries most likely. So for the time being I don't see a real issue with women earning money as a midwife - I see an issue with them making a profit off of someone elses sacrifices and DENYING a woman who cannot afford the high price tag - her natural birth and forcing her into a hospital modelled birth. I understand the issues of insurance - but this truly appauls me. Becoming a midwife was never part of my desire to make financial gains. It was a spiritual calling from the deepest part of my being and I would catch babies or help woman catch their own babies for no money at all. I DO believe in EXCHANGE but thats not something which needs to be discussed here. Charging money in itself is not the problem. I think its usually those WHO are charging and the reasons behind them, backing them, pushing them forward to get RICH of womens bodies. But then that brings us to the modern issues of elective c-secs, and med. interventions all which can be billed for and all which are at the expense of the women (and baby) - not only out of pocket, but physically, emotionally and spiritually. I have witnessed enough to award myself the strength and assurance that I will NEVER subject myself to that kind of invalidation and I would like to teach the rest of the Goddesses Race aka womb-in - that you are strong and built perfectly to birth. I think that our entire system and culture needs to be revamped and I am trying to head up the BIRTHING REVOLUTION of the NEW MILLENIUM. I want womb-in to join me. I want to join them. I want us to reclaim our bodies and our births and make them sacred once again... width="425" height="350" ..