Pregnancy, Birth And Beyond

Week 38: Undisturbed birth Part 1 featuring Dr Michel Odent on the fetal ejection reflex. The neocortex is the thinking part of the brain. When the neocortex is activated during labour a mother is taken out of her primitive brain where her birth hormones most smoothly function. There are three key elements of undisturbed birth; safety, privacy and warmth.Produced by Lara Martin pbbmedia.org