Is there such a thing as having 'too much' personality at a birth?
I suppose to answer that, it might be useful to define terms like emotional attitude or personality.
It is my opinion that midwives and all medical care providers should use the ethical standards used by mental health providers. That is to say they should try and keep there own 'stuff' out of the situation. Emotions+ Personality= Stuff. Ok that may not be a helpful definition. The varied topics that go into the study of ethics for the helping professions is broad and deep, really too much for a blog post. So I will say that in the medical model the excitement level of the providers at a labor/birth/postpartum will peak with chaotic 'all hell breaking loose' energy and movement at the moment of birth and then quickly drops away. At home birth I think we serve best when we stay within a shorter/flatter emotional range. Perhaps not changing our exterior emotional expression one wit. If we do that, we leave the space undisturbed for the parents to have their personality and emotional response to the birth be the predominate feeling that pervades the room and the infants first contact with the world.
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