Culture and society have trained us to believe that giving birth equates to pain, fear, danger, lack of control and need for medical management. We’ve been brainwashed. Ask any woman who has given birth undisturbed in her nest and she will tell you, yes, it was intense; maybe even at times overwhelming; but it was also blissful, ecstatic, enthralling, powerful, magnificent and SAFE. This is your body’s intent. Your physiology is designed for this experience. Birth is meant to be all of these things but it requires a space where we can feel safe, trusting, and connected to ourselves. There is a very specific orchestration of hormonal shifts involving: Oxytocin, endorphins, adrenaline, and prolactin that must occur and which only can occur when the external environment supports the internal environment. Our instinctual or mammalian brain must override our thinking brain. A birthing mother must feel free to move, breathe, make sounds and change positions as her body intuitively tells her to do so. She must feel connected to herself and her baby at all times. This is her body’s intent. This is her birthright.