This photographer captures fascinating images of in-home deliveries. The photographer strongly desires to increase awareness of the normal delivery process.
These intimate sᴄᴇɴᴇs of a wOᴍᴀɴ giving birth to her children at home serve as a great illustration of the difficult process. Hospitals, according to the photographer, maybe hostile places if the overworked medical staff is unable to immediately assist labouring women. Tina is adaᴍᴀɴt that natural deliveries at home are more advantageous.
The images that follow show Shivani Sinha giving birth to her son Arin. Additionally, you can see Lina Duncan, an American midwife who currently resides and works full-time in Mumbai. Lina helped Shivani throughout her six-hour labour by preparing an indoor pool for a water birth.
Tina claims that huᴍᴀɴs have the propensity to find delivery ᴛᴇʀʀɪғʏing and to be afraid of the procedure. The bulk of birth tales that we hear from members of our community and that are portrayed in the media usually induce this worry in us. There is a choice, though, and in my opinion, it’s one of the biggest mysteries being kept from women in society right now.
Since hospital deliveries can save lives, as Tina points out, the purpose is not to criticize them, and it is true that the availability of medical care has made high-ʀɪsᴋ births less ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀᴏᴜs. But ᴍᴀɴy more interventions are carried out on Pʀᴇɢɴᴀɴᴛ women than are necessary, safe, or healthful. Examples include labour induction, cesarean sections, and mechanical births.
There is a noticeable difference between giving birth the first time in a hospital and the second time with a midwife in terms of the degree of care and respect, according to ᴍᴀɴy women I know who gave birth both times with midwives.
So what has the response been? Other women contacted me after I published this to inquire whether I knew of any midwives in Bangalore or Calcutta, but as Tina says, I don’t. That is sad from my perspective. Even though we’d prefer to give delivery in a different way, we have no idea how or who will help.
I hope that women would actively contribute to altering the current birth culture in Iɴᴅɪᴀ by training to be doulas or midwives and by making informed choices regarding their own births.
