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Video: Appalling Hospital Childbirth

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Childbirth - A Much Better Way RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! This is a great example of unnecessary interventions. These women seem to be trying to dig the baby out. They are pulling the babies head, pushing on the mom’s stomach. It is [...]

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The Moon’s Effect on Natural Childbirth

Do more women go into labor during a full moon? Would more women spontaneously deliver during a full moon if doctors and midwives did not remove babies early via C-section or labor induction? Many experts will adamantly deny any evidence to suggest a relationship between the moon and our bodies. These experts seem to forget [...]

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Birth Story Set in the Future
• Walker County Messenger, May 11, 2007 Jeannie Babb Taylor: May 2052 This is a lovely article which is basically a look into the future. A present day woman, presumably the author, describes what birthing was like in 2007 to her granddaughter in the year 2052. Her granddaughter is shocked by the unnatural way birthing women [...] Read More
A Beautiful Unassisted Childbirth Story
• This personal unassisted childbirth story was found at www.theage.com.au on May 27, 2007. An excerpt: “For Clare Morrissey, her planned freebirth, at home without any medical assistance, was “absolutely beautiful”. After two hospital births, both with epidurals, and her third at a birthing centre, Mrs Morrissey decided to have a homebirth free of any help [...] Read More
Are Men, Machines, and Hospitals Necessary for a Healthy Childbirth?
• The following is an excerpt from American Sexuality Magazine By Marsden Wagner Childbirth is not a medical issue; it is a social issue that may or may not have medical consequences. Childbirth is a very personal, emotional phenomenon, analogous to sexual intercourse. Most people would balk at an expert coming in to tell them how [...] Read More
Who Says Childbirth Needs to be Painful?
• Source: PRWeb.com Secrets of having a great birth are uncovered in this newly released book. 48 moms share their stories and wisdom through their own inspirational birth stories. (PRWEB) — Studies show that nine out of ten first-time mothers are afraid of giving birth and worried about the pain. But it doesn’t have to be [...] Read More
Unassisted Childbirth in the News
• Freebirthing is making headlines as more and more women are choosing to keep this intimate, personal event, well….intimate and personal. Unassisted Childbirth really stirs up emotions in those that believe we should blindly trust the medical establishment (“yes sir, mr. doctor sir) and let them do whatever they like to us. Perhaps if they would [...] Read More
Insider’s Response to the AMA
• Visit Fearless Birthing to read the full text of a letter written by practicing OB/GYN and member of the ACOG, addressing the AMA and demanding answers regarding the resolution to take steps against homebirth. Not only did the resolution take this OB by surprise, but he is demanding answers (as all of us are) such [...] Read More
Sign the Petition to Keep Home Birth Legal
• Please take a moment to sign this homebirth petition to show your support of every woman’s right to choose where and how she births her baby. If you have not done so already, you may want to stop by your local video store or Netflix so you can watch The Business of Being Born to [...] Read More
How to Make Hospital Births Better
• If you have been following the AMA resolution regarding homebirth, you simply must read this well written, eloquent and very useful article written by Navelgazingmidwife. It includes 11 steps that hospitals, labor and delivery nurses and obstetricians can take to keep women from running to homebirth by making the hospital birth experience more human. Even [...] Read More
Sex after Childbirth
• A recent article in Psychology Today looked at how a couple’s sexual relationship is affected following childbirth. Like many articles before it, it primarily examined in the difference in attitudes following cesarean births vs vaginal births and the main focus seemed to be on the pelvic floor. On the outside, it seems to be another [...] Read More
Study Shows Heel Prick DOES Hurt Baby
• Apparently medical doctors need a study to prove that they are hurting a newborn baby when they jab it with a sharp metal instrument. The new study found that babies may find the heel prick far more painful than doctors realize. Researchers studied brain scans and facial reactions even though the baby may not have [...] Read More