レイチェル・ブレイセンさんのインスタグラム写真 - (レイチェル・ブレイセンInstagram)「41 weeks of pregnancy🌸 Just like his sister, this little guy is not showing any signs of wanting to arrive quite yet and in contrast to my first pregnancy, I feel so, so good. Polar opposite compared to the first time around! When I reached 41 weeks with Lea I was under so much pressure and stress I wasn’t able to enjoy my last days of pregnancy at all. I was shuffled between hospital visits, ultrasounds and midwives telling me I was a ticking bomb about to implode. Instead of supported I was threatened, coerced, and overall treated as if I was sick and like there was something truly wrong with me (when in fact I was a completely healthy and thriving 28-year old, with a healthy and thriving baby in my womb!). When I reached 41 weeks and refused to be induced, an OBGYN actually asked me “if I wanted my baby to live”. I mistakenly thought I would be able to have a natural pregnancy and birth experience while still committing myself to a medical system that is not only built on a foundation of deep misogyny, but designed to pathologize and medicalize what is actually the most vibrant, thriving time of a woman’s life. This pregnancy is so very different. 41 weeks feels like a walk in the park (it basically is!). I’m spending my days by the lake; resting, swimming, reading, drinking tea… Been foraging a bit, nesting tons, I go for a dip down by the dock several times a day and am mostly just walking around the land, enjoying the absolute marvel of nature. I keep looking up at the trees, finding myself in such awe of it all that I can’t help but to say thank you out loud. Of course I oscillate between big feelings and thoughts; what will labor be like? When will I feel those first sensations? Can I really do this? Every day I cycle through some sort of conditioned fear that doesn’t belong to me and was never mine in the first place. Again and again, I arrive at a place of peace. Everything is so incredibly beautiful. My body. My baby. Our family. This place. This pregnancy. I feel so lucky. Soon he’ll be in my arms and I’ll look back at this time as some of the most beautiful weeks of my entire life💛 #wildpregnancy 📸: @naomivonkphotography」6月13日 23時29分