My Body My Birth

My Body My Birth: Rediscovering the Forgotten Knowledge of Delivering a Healthy Baby to the World celebrates birth as a ceremony and shares insightful methods of traditional care for child birth. My Body My Birth takes a whole society approach and includes topics on: plants that guide Dra. Ticitl's midwifery journey traumas home birth as safe common discomforts of pregnancy and comfort measures the lost arts of pregnancy and childbirth such as the importance of a ceremonial fire during childbirth Indigenous traditional ways of postpartum care women warrior birth stories midwives's words of wisdom and introduces Cihuapahtli Midwifery the home birth practice of Dra. T'Karima Ticitl LM CM Partera.