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On child birth - by Henrik Karlsson and Johanna Karlsson

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"It is interesting how feelings have real consequences like this."

Double portrait, Lucian Freud, 1985-86 An hour before the birth of our first child, the midwives had a changing of the guards, and we were assigned a new midwife. She wasn’t there long—she mostly gave Johanna some advice about breathing and told her to get up and walk around—but, Johanna says, “it was such a complete shift in my experience.” Johanna You could perhaps say that for most of that birth, I tried to suffer through it, while at the end she taught me techniques that gave me a deep sense of control. I noticed how much more manageable it became when I changed my practice.…

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