After a quite disappointing search for an adequate hospital or other place to give birth in and around Pune where we live, we discovered Corinna and her birth-center in Goa.

It took a lot of trust, energy and initiative to organize everything to come to Goa, but it was really worthwhile.

We experienced
- a very good preparation for birth
- answers to all our various and never ending questions
- a natural and undisturbed birth in a homely and beautiful   environment,with all the space and time that we all needed!!
- an excellent postnatal care which guided and helped us gentle into our   new parenthood

But most of all we are thankful for the infinite care and the readiness to be available sometimes even 24 hour per day when needed!
We found a holistic approach to birth, a place that nourished my body and my soul at the same time!

Smaran: “ Since it was the first time for me to become a father I didn’t know what it meant. I can write a whole website about the wonderful and blissful experience, yet I will be not able to really describe it.
I’m sure if we had been in a hospital it would have been completely different. The way Corinna supported Pratiti to trust in her female strength and wisdom also increased the trust in myself and on this new path of fatherhood.”

While reading this report again, it sounds like an advertisement for Corinna and her center, but the reason why I am writing this is, to inform and encourage women who are interested in this kind of birth to go for what they want and need and don’t let anybody stop them. I remember statements that I got to hear from various doctors or even friends like:
“There is no doctor???” “do you want to risk the life of you and your baby…” “You can’t deliver naturally you need to have a caesarian…” “DO YOU WANT TO RISK…..”
Of course I didn’t want to risk, I wanted to find a place where I felt relaxed and good, as well as people whom I trusted to give me the right support and respect as a woman in this special moment of my life.

Throughout the whole time I felt safe and sure about my decision and the birth-center in Goa and if I would have needed a doctor and a hospital it would have been available close by!

Today our little daughter Alyssa is flowering just like the hibiscustree that we planted on top of her placenta in Corinna’s garden and that is the biggest gift for all of us!!