Day: January 17, 2023

The elements in midwifery care for puerperium: Fire

The Fire-Energy element During puerperium the woman usually has little energy, mainly conveyed on managing the baby. That is when the midwife can intervene to activate the Fire element. Fire is warmth, affection, energy. Fire is spirituality and sacredness of the event. Fire is sexuality and masculine. From the emotional point of view, fire rituals […]

The elements in midwifery care for puerperium: Water

The Water-Evolution element Another key element of puerperium is without any doubt Water: the more contained the woman is, the more evolutional-, growth-, and opening aspects this element naturally represents can take place. Emotional expansion is so great that the mother reports that she “has never been so happy” and post-partum euphoria lasts in time, […]

Elements in midwifery care for puerperium: Air

The Air-Cold element Air, in its cold, rational look, stays outside and is the only element that can be damaging for puerperium. During this energetical void phase, what cools, damages; the mind is focused on perceptions. The reptilian, instinctive, survival capacity, and archaic memories levels are strongly activated. What to do? Inhibiting rationality Among the […]

Elements in the midwifery care for puerperium: Earth

The Earth-Involution element During the first trimester of exterogestation, the Eart element returns, and is very important. Earth is the slow time of getting to know, of adapting, of couvage. Earth is the intimate space of home. But it is also the time of effort, of the research of a balance, of the reconstruction of […]