Insider’s Response to the AMA

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Childbirth RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

AMA, Homebirth and Free Publicity

The AMA recently passed a resolution to “ban homebirth” as a response to the Ricki Lake documentary, The Business of Being Born. The AMA is a medical association designed to protect the interests of medical doctors (not birthing mothers) so not only is there a blatant and inherent conflict of interest in their wishes, [...]

She Births: A Modern Woman’s Guidebook for an Ancient Rite of Passage

“She Births: A Modern Woman’s Guidebook for an Ancient Rite of Passage” by Marcie Macari explores the Spiritual side of childbirth that is often overlooked or missing entirely in modern medically managed childbirths.
Macari makes an excellent argument for all women to explore within to find their Divine Feminine and take that to their pregnancy [...]

Video: Unassisted Childbirth Testimonial

Many unassisted and midwife assisted homebirths are preceded by a traumatic hospital birth. First time moms are often more naive, innocent and trusting of the “system”. They come out of the hospital traumatized from a violent birth that either blasted their baby from their body with chemicals or sliced their baby from their [...]

A Better Birthing Model

It never ceases to amaze me that pregnant women in the United States continue to believe that they have access to the “best birthing and obstetric care in the world”. What rubbish! The amazing part is not that people have been brainwashed since birth to believe that practitioners in the US Healthcare system are [...]

Confidence In Natural Childbirth

It amazes me that millions of women will take the recommendations regarding homebirth from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists despite the blatant and inherent conflict of interest. It is absurd to take a recommendation from any group that will lose money if you don’t take their recommendation. Here are some [...]

Video: Natural Waterbirth

This is a lovely waterbirth video from YouTube. Notice how the noises the mother is making sound much more pleasurable than the agonizing moans you hear from most mothers who choose the medical model of childbirth. While this waterbirth does have a midwife in attendance, the midwife seems to do a fairly decent [...]

Homebirth: The Family Choice

Author: Kristen Hart

Despite the fact that many people do not understand the choice to deliver a baby at home, home birth is an option that more and more families are choosing. Home birth offers the chance to give birth naturally in an environment familiar to the mother and her family. It also gives the baby [...]

Video: Facts About Childbirth

The Business of Birthing
This is a short video listing facts and information about the benefits of homebirth and the statistics related to unnecessary procedures and interventions used in the medical model of childbirth.

12 Reasons Why Cesarean Might Be Recommended

by Carl DiNello
Nothing is guaranteed during pregnancy or labor and surprises often occur. Whether or not you are a high-risk mother, it is a good idea to be prepared for the possibility of having a cesarean. Sometimes emergency cesareans are necessary. They will only be done after a definitive diagnosis is made. An emergency cesarean [...]