As I was checking email and Facebook this morning my computer started acting up. I began to push buttons to fix whatever the problem was. I tried to shut down and restart, I pressed ctrl, alt, delete. As far as I could tell, nothing was happening. After about two minutes I figured the only way to fix the problem was to manually force a shutdown by removing the battery and then restarting. As I was about to do that the screen changed indicating that it was indeed working but was simply in overload due to everything I had done to it.
That's when it hit me. We live in an impatient world, results must happen right now or nothing must be going on type of world. That thought follows us into birth and labor. We are measured by how fast we are dilating and/or effacing but there is more going on that we can not see and measure. We put time limits on how the body should work and if we don't meet that criteria then there is a problem. We try to speed up the process but that only slows things down.
The process of labor and birth has not changed. It is the same today, as it was for our grandparents, and their grandparents and theirs, etc. What has changed is our outlook on life. We want instant results and if we don't get them, we need to intervene. As I said, it is a process. It takes time. We need to be patient and wait. Wait for our body to work, wait for the baby to work, wait until the two are working together as they should be.
Let's get out of the way, trust our bodies and baby will come out. Just wait.
