Photo by Caroline Brown

I think instinctive birth is the knowledge of birth that all women have encoded in their DNA. We don’t need a class to understand it. The eons of birthing women who came before have brought us to this place today. But in this generation, we wonder where it is, how to reach it and how to use it. To connect to our instincts, we need to be quiet. Instincts do not shout; they whisper. How do we help the new “Eve” hear this voice? When the mom tries to hear the baby’s heart with a fetascope, we tell her to “feel” the beat against her ear.