This post at DoulaMomma really made me mist up. It's very beautiful (but the first bit could be rather difficult to read if you are currently pregnant, so proceed with caution). Her son's birth was not the gentle, natural birth the writer had planned, but was instead very traumatic for both mother and baby. By rebirthing her son in a tub at home, she helped undo some of that trauma.
It's a really amazing idea. It can't erase what's happened, obviously, but if it can help put things right between a mother and her infant child, it's certainly worth running a bath. And even if your birth was gentle, wouldn't allowing a newborn to re-experience the womb in a warm bath with mum be wonderful?
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