Then when we get into the layer of then people who are like, no, I would want my children to be there.

But the thing that still then holds them back is I think my kid can't handle it.

My kid's going to freak out.

There is so much we can do to prepare them and then also have backup plants.

So that this is a very normalized, amazing, beautiful thing.

And then also it's okay to pivot.

Yeah.

Well, the whole reason we would do any of this is to seize the opportunity to teach them about birth because society will teach them to fear birth.

And we don't want our children to fear birth.

How beautiful if they trust this process, because on a deep level, no matter how much they

consciously remember the experience, they were taught to trust birth. Yeah. Yeah, I think my middle

child is still a little bit perturbed with me that she did not see her brother be born because

she was four. Lola, my older child made it in to see the birth, or came in right after.

And Lola and Ruby shared a room.

And Ruby was too short to reach the door handle and was stuck in her bedroom.

And she still talks about it all the time.

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And this is the Down to Birth podcast.

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