Revive Family and Wellness

Elective induction around a holiday is for convenience, but not yours.

With Thanksgiving & Christmas coming up, loads of unnecessary inductions and c-sections are about to happen.

Every year there is a HUGE decrease in births on (and around)...

🔆 Christmas
🔆 New Year’s Eve/Day
🔆 Easter (changes yearly - first Sunday after the full moon in April)
🔆 Memorial Day (changes yearly - last Monday in May in the US)
🔆 Independence Day (4th of July in the US)
🔆 Thanksgiving (changes yearly - last Thursday in November)

And it’s not just the United States - it's everywhere.

How could it be that all of these holidays have lower birth rates year after year?

It’s not a coincidence - it’s about convenience.

And not YOUR convenience. The convenience of providers.

No one wants to work on holidays, and hospital birth providers have a way to make sure (for the most part) that they don’t have to.

Inductions & c-sections are rarely scheduled ON holidays, but they ARE frequently scheduled in the days leading up to, or just after, a holiday.

If you are due around a holiday, and your provider suggests an induction or c-section, it’s a good idea to question why (remember that you always have the right to decline). If there is NOT a legitimate medical reason, they may be more concerned with being home in time for a holiday dinner than your well being.

For more info and references on this topic, check out my FREE holiday births handout on my website (birthuprising.com/resources).

And so the cycle continues.

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We hear it constantly as gentle parents. "This is why there's so many entitled kids these days!"

But in reality, what is it that breeds entitlement? Collaboration, validation, a strong focus on emotional and mental health, autonomy... these things are not what causes entitlement.

What truly fosters entitlement are power structures and authority paradigms. In mainstream parenting methods, children observe being modelled for them entitlement. They are told "I'm older than you therefore you must do as i say." They hear "I'm the authority. And that gives me the right to control you."

As they grow, they internalize that. Then they start to enact those authority structures on people they view as having less authority than them. They genuinely are taught that as they grow, as they age, as they gain authority, they get to control others. That they are entitled to that.

I myself have been guilty of it! Of feeling and believing that simply because im older, and I hold the power, that that entitles me to obedience, entitles me to control. Unlearning that is an ongoing process.

The first step is truly examining our beliefs around entitlement. Is being supported and collaborated with the true culprit? Is feeling entitled to basic human respect truly a toxic entitlement?

I dont believe so. But feeling entitled to control another, to demand obedience... those are toxic entitlements. Those are unhealthy patterns that we can unlearn. Rather than teaching children that authority gives them entitlement, we can abandon authority in favor of true collaboration. Of empathy. Of validation.

Because the more we seek to hold power over them, and make sure they recognise our authority, the more we foster the entitlement mindset.

Let go of the idea that we need to be the authority in our relationships with our children. Only then can we truly counter toxic entitlement.

Trust yourself...

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