About Birthing Wisdom

birthing with courage and confidence

pregnancy and birth — a rich purposeful journey

In many cultures and across time, the challenging journey of pregnancy and birth was celebrated and honoured as a transformational process, a ‘rite of passage’. Women were supported in this journey and enabled to find the inner resources they would need to become powerful birthing women and strong mothers. Often in our highly interventionist ‘labour-bypass’ era, a woman’s need to consciously experience this transformational process is not fully recognised or adequately supported.

Rhea’s Birthing Wisdom offers support to the ‘willing women’ who wish to honour this process — women in touch with their yearning for normal physiological birthing and willing to undertake the work required to open the possibility for achieving it.

Universally, women have taken this rich purposeful journey in the company of other women, and current research continues to indicate that instinctive physiological birthing is enabled through the connection of woman-to-woman support.

In evolutionary terms it’s only very recently that we have invited our men to share this journey with us, and research confirms that this is deepening the positive bonds between fathers and their babies.

So, whilst strongly advocating for the evidence-based practices that strenthen the woman-to-woman connection, Rhea’s Birthing Wisdom work also supports the father’s unique role in contemporary shared birthing.

Rhea’s Birthing Wisdom approach encourages the development of physical resources — especially resources to raise your pain threshold; to release into functional pain; to normalise ‘crisis of confidence’ moments and to increase your ability to relax in action.

Birthing Wisdom also explores the emotional, psychological and relational aspects of pregnancy and birth to enable you to take your journey with courage and confidence; to deepen your relationship; to create a meaningful birth experience and to ensure a safe and loving welcome for your baby.