Unassisted Childbirth

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Why an Unassisted Childbirth (UC) or Homebirth is the Superior Choice over Hospital Birth for the Vast Majority of Women.
A woman in the United States today has three options for giving birth.

Hospital Delivery
Midwife Home or Birthing Center [...]

Studies Show Homebirth Is Safe, Episiotomy Is Harmful

Source: www.PRWeb.com
(PRWEB) A study in the June 18th issue (2005) of the British Medical Journal found that “planned home births for low risk women in the United States are associated with similar safety and less medical intervention as low risk hospital births.” With prospective data from more than 5000 births attended in 2000 by Certified [...]

Antibiotics for Episiotomy Health

A new study by researchers at Stanford and Santa Clara Medical Center concluded that women who receive antibiotic injections after bad tears or episiotomies have a better outcome with fewer infections. That is unfortunate since many, if not almost all tears are caused by unnatural birth positions, drugs to induce labor and forced pushing. [...]

Video: Episiotomy and Pelvic Floor Health

This is a video from mamarama who has a number of informative videos on childbirth available at YouTube. They are all worth checking out. This particular video addresses two popular childbirth interventions (episiotomy and cesarean) and the widespread myth that they somehow preserve a tight vagina for future sex purposes. Ugh. [...]

Kegels for Childbirth and More

Kegel exercises are unheard of by many women and yet they may benefit women’s health in a variety of ways. What are they? Kegel exercises are designed to strengthen all the muscles that support your urethra, bladder, uterus and rectum.
In the 1940’s, Dr. Arnold Kegel, a gynecologist, recommended these exercises for his patients to avoid [...]

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.

Risks of Childbirth Interventions

In spite of all the advertising touting “home-like” birthing rooms in hospitals, for most women, a hospital birth will be nothing like a home birth. Interventions are routine in the hospitals in my state. Every laboring woman will be hooked up for some period of time to an electronic fetal monitor, given vaginal exams, and [...]

Homebirth: As Safe As Childbirth Gets

by Yvonne Lapp Cryns
Each year in America, approximately 1% of the births occur in home settings. In Illinois in 1992, 1,218 families filed birth certificates that reflected a homebirth. Approximately one-third of the births occurred to Black families. Wisconsin had 591 recorded homebirths for the same year of which 22 were to Black families. 1 [...]

Episiotomies - Do You Really Need One?

By Heather Hill
If you’re like me when I was pregnant, you are probably being bombarded with information. Between reading and getting so much advice about everything from what to feed your baby to which diaper cream to use, you might find that you have more questions than answers. You are also probably wondering about what [...]

Childbirth and Your Pelvic Floor

The pelvic floor is a large hammock of muscles stretching from side to side across the floor of the pelvis. It is attached to your pubic bone in front, and to the tail end of your spine behind. The openings from your bladder, your bowels and your womb all pass through these muscles.
What does the [...]