Pain Relief During Childbirth

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Giving birth can an extremely uncomfortable and painful experience for many mothers, and while for some women labor goes quickly and relatively easily, for others it can turn into a real ordeal. Where our grandmothers [...]

Psychological Pain of Childbirth

By: Susan Dalby
Birth is an extraordinary event for families and for the whole community. We have come a long way, and it is now rare for women to die in childbirth. There are still, however, many unanswered questions. Why is birth still perceived as dangerous, when it is such a natural event and there [...]

Benefits of Using a Doula for Childbirth

Author: Martin T. Stein, MD
During a prenatal visit with Ann and Roger, a first-time mom and dad, the pediatrician asked about their childbirth education experiences. Ann said the classes were like a lecture, and there was little time to get questions answered. “As we went through the meetings and learned about things that might happen, [...]

Video: An Unassisted Childbirth

This is another lovely unassisted childbirth video from Laura Shanley. The ending of this short video almost brings tears to my eyes. Would you rather be this baby or the baby chemically blasted from the womb of your mother screaming in agony only to be dragged away by the latex gloved hands of [...]

Pregnancy and Birth for First Time Mothers

Author: Juzaily Ramli
If you are pregnant for the first time, the idea of childbirth can be frightening and a bit overwhelming. Typically, a pregnancy takes anywhere from 38 to 42 weeks. Though many first-time mothers indicated that their babies were delivered past their due date, it is always best to be ready and prepared for [...]

Self Hypnosis and Natural Childbirth

Author: Nathalie Fiset
With the re-emergence of natural childbirth as the preferred method of delivery, many mothers opt to go for the nearly pain-free technique using self-hypnosis for natural childbirth. In fact, many schools of thought and even established associations and institutes have come out to promote self-hypnosis for natural childbirth.
HypnoBirthing™ and Hypno-Beginning ™ are examples [...]

A Relaxed Beautiful Entry for Carter

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 from [...]

Midwife ‘made mother feel like she was dying’

According to a recent article in the Waterford Observer, a midwife was found guilty of misconduct after she pulled so hard on a mother’s umbilical cord that the mother “screamed in agony and feared she would die”.
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Sheryl’s comments:
And people think unassisted birth is uncivilized??? This is a classic [...]

Video:An Almost Perfect Childbirth (removed)

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 most midwive’s noggins) because clearly they never learned about a little something called gravity in [...]

Video:Unassisted Childbirth

This is a nice video by Laura Shanley who wrote the book “Unassisted Childbirth” and runs the site www.unassistedchildbirth.com. The concept of not using a doctor or midwife at all makes so much sense when you come to terms with the fact that a woman’s body already knows how to give birth and will [...]