How do we change a culture? can we? I am a baby boomer who is a CNM. I find the culture that I am practicing in "Wimpy". I lived the life of trying to have a Lamaze birth in the 60's when women were put to sleep and forceps used to "drag" the baby out. Twilight sleep was the norm, we fought to have our wishes known and because more voices were heard they paid attention!!!

Then a shift happened, those children that I birthed in the 80's are having children but not like we did. they dont want to be strong and realize that birth does have pain but it is worth it. They want epidurals to Participate without pain and since Brittany Sprears elected to have a  c/s hey, I want one too

Oh by the way I would rather have  it on the fifth of the Month as my mother in law is coming and I want her to help.

These women grew up in the generation of text messages, computers( I had a typewriter in high school, and if I wanted to use the phone I had to find one, one that wasnt attached to my ear)DSL,Ipods etc,

We change the culture one birth at a time, one client at a time and hopefully the pendulum will swing the other way. I hope that I will be alive when that happens, because it was a glorious birth and I felt like I could take on the world and that was 32 years ago

I hope it doesnt take that long to change this culture of birth.