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
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