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Obviously nature has enabled us to fall deeply in love with our babies so that we stay with them during their vulnerable years. For millennia, our tribal heritage enabled us to have an extended family to provide many layers of mutual social, emotional, and physical support. But modern society can be alienating, and isolating. Women need people who cherish us to unconditionally tend to us when we experience the overwhelming and transformative experience of giving birth. 

With comprehensive psychosocial support, the mother‘s birth experience can enhance her sense of accomplishment and self-esteem, and promote feelings of being in control, listened to and valued