Birth and a « quiet » source of power There is a kind of power that doesn’t announce itself with speeches or titles. It arrives in a room, sometimes dim, sometimes loud, sometimes ordinary, and it changes a woman forever. Birth, when experienced in a way that supports a woman’s full capacity, can become a deep knowing: I can do hard things. I can move through intensity. I can bring life through me. I can trust myself. That knowing can echo for decades. Not because giving birt