Coming through you

-Written by Hollis Yarborough

When I was training with DONA we were asked to depict in art form our “ideal birth”.

Considering all that I can draw is mere doodled flowers 

I chose to express my ideal birth in poetry ...an art form of words.  

Here is the poem I wrote.

                                                            

Coming Through You

Birth is an experience so pure, so crisp, so painful and real.

A pain of the soul that you cannot help but feel.

A pain of the heart, a pain that pushes through.

Not an everyday pain, but one that is new.

One that brings life, joy, laughter, and ease.

One that changes your life without cease.

A birth at home, naturally consumed.
With comfort, and tea, and lights at a gloom. 
The man that you love will be the one there,
with midwife and doula,

in this joy you will share.
Slow music, loud moaning, walking and moving about.

All is there.

All emotion.

All hormones.

All pain.

To be bared, to be shared.

The air will smell like lavender, and the tea will too.

While sipping and pushing and laboring hard. 
While going for walks in the back yard.

Time will slow, pain will increase, contractions will quicken.

All the while squatting and sitting.

The pushing gets harder,
 the moaning gets louder, 
and all of a sudden

the waiting is shattered.

Your child, your baby, the one you conceived,

has entered this world,

has brought such relief.

More than relief!

Pure joy.

No stress.

Immediately the baby is placed on your chest, 
crawls onto your breast.
And forever your life is changed.

Life is made new.

For a life has begun, coming through you. 

Hollis Yarborough is a DONA trained doula. She is currently pursuing an RN degree at SLCC, with hopes to get a bachelors degree in Midwifery. After attending a handful of births Hollis joined MotherBirth, with the hopes to assist many more women during pregnancy and birth. Hollis has a passion for childbirth, and its ability to strengthen women. Her hope is to empower women to know and understand the strength they hold within themselves during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum.