Hannah Brennan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
She looks at me with such love and says, it's okay.
You can trust yourself.
That night, under the full moon,
I tell myself, my body knows how to give birth.
This baby knows how to be born.
Please, Moon, help me.
This baby has got to come out.
The next morning, I go into labor.
My husband, my constant support,
My midwife's model of care is to stay out of my line of sight.
I barely see them, but I know they are there monitoring me and the baby.
My body labors as it needs to.
And when it's time for birth, they are there with me.
Their quiet presence makes me feel completely supported and that my body is completely in charge.
And it's like my mum has always said, birth is the only pain for something right.
And after 15 hours labour, at 43 and a half weeks pregnant, shortly before my 42nd birthday, in the special familiarity of our home,
I give birth to our 10-pound, 4-ounce, healthy, happy, beautiful son.
And I am different.
I'm a different woman.
My body is neither liability nor failure.