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The Story of Sacred Birthing
by Sunni Karll

When I was 10, I knew I would deliver babies when I grew up.  Midwifery did not come to me until I was 4O, as I had other things to learn that would help me see birth with ‘new eyes’. Being a Waldorf kindergarten teacher in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s, I discovered that children’s wounding did not come from schooling, as I had thought, but from their gestation and birth experience.

Becoming a birth therapist in 1987, I heard the accounts of hundreds of my adult clients who re-experienced their own births, even though they did not believe they could. They told me their experience as a newborn in their own words.  They taught me that newborn babies were being hurt.  They showed me that the physical and emotional wounds they received at birth were the very same wounds that they were now seeking to heal, in their 40’s and 50’s and 60’s. Again, I saw that wounding came from birth.

In 1992, it was finally time to go to midwifery school, and I knew then that I needed to make birth less traumatic to the babies I worked with.  I scrutinized my own home birth practice.  I asked, “I wonder if that hurts the baby?” “How can I be more gentle here?” “Is this practice really necessary?”  Then I observed babies. Every newborn I saw was intently observed and I was bold enough to talk to their moms about their birth, in order to understand the correlation. I saw that something was very wrong with many new babies born with epidurals. They were groggy and dull instead of alert, curious and intent on discovering each next moment of life. Their arms and legs flailed in an uncoordinated way. They had difficulties with breastfeeding, they cried more, their sleep was shallow and more disturbed, and they were much less bonded. These were patterns that others thought were normal. I discovered that they were not ‘normal’, they were typical effects of their birth. I saw that the personality of the baby was often directly correlated to the trauma or ease of its birth.  But these are hard things to see.

I also observed babies born without drugs, and discovered that these babies were not traumatized. They breast fed easily, slept deeply, bonded, held long periods of eye contact, moved their limbs in a coordinated flowing way. They were content and thrived.  They were far more than the tiny body they presented visually. This taught me about the soul, the vibration of consciousness that enlivens the body. It taught me that taking utmost care of the body IS the very best care for consciousness, for only a pristine body can carry its full divinity.

Babies showed me that trauma at birth made their bodies constrict and be less of who they are.  When the nerves of a newborn constrict, the soul and body are out of sync, and baby is not able to carry the clarity of soul essence that is otherwise possible.

In 1997, I was given a vision.  I saw many beautiful little circular ‘pods’ that housed parents who had come to give birth in a pristine place in nature. I was told that I was to create “a new kind of birth for the Master babies coming”.  As a young midwife, I didn’t know what “a new kind of birth” meant, but from each next birth I attended, I was shown new understandings that grew to create the body of knowledge now called, Sacred Birthing.  Being able to ask questions and hear guidance allowed me to learn about a higher perspective of birth, and Sacred Birthing, Birthing A New Humanity was born.

Sunni Karll

Sunni is one of the Founders of Sacred Birthing, a Midwife and Sacred Birthing Consultant.