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Video:An Almost Perfect Childbirth

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This video was removed by Youtube and I want to cry. It was an incredible example of how fast and painless childbirth can be in the absence of interventions. I want to drop an apple on every OB-GYNs head (and many midwives) because clearly they never learned about a little something called gravity in medical school.

The midwife in attendance does not touch the baby, violate the mother or hinder the birth in any way. If something (God forbid) precludes me from having an unassisted birth the next time around then I swear that I am going to fly to the Netherlands to give birth because those midwives seem to understand the birthing process better than any other midwife I have seen.

Notice how easily the baby comes out. Notice how the mother’s vagina opens naturally with gravity helping out (and not a mutilating episiotomy). Notice how the baby turns naturally, all on its own. Notice how there is no blood. Notice how the midwife does not need to yank the baby out by its head. Notice how there is no epidural but the mother almost sounds like she is having an orgasm.

How can anyone even consider having a hospital birth after watching how perfect, natural and wonderful this birth is?

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