When Do Labor and Delivery Start?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Childbirth RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When you conceive and become pregnant, your body begins to prepare to give birth. Pregnancy is considered to be full-term about 38 weeks from fertilization, i.e. approximately 40 weeks from the start of the last menstruation. Thus, [...]

Unassisted Childbirth

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 Delivery
Unassisted Childbirth

Although all choices can be appropriate depending on the circumstances, the vast majority of babies can be [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

How to Conclude an Overdue Pregnancy

Overdue pregnancies are physically and mentally challenging. You may have difficulties in sleeping, back pain, and difficulty in breathing, which can easily result in daylong fatigue. If you are having difficulties moving around then it is difficult to play with your other kids and even complete simple, everyday tasks for them. It is no wonder [...]

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 [...]

Methods to Induce Labor At Home

by Lena Leino
If you are reading this because you have reached - and passed - your estimated delivery date (EDD), and been visiting your doctor who confirmed that your baby could be born “any day now” but that, unfortunately, you are not currently in labor, you are probably interested in natural ways to induce your [...]

Cytotec for Labor Induction

Off-Label Use of Cytotec: Drawbacks to Popular Labor-Inducing Drug
by Christine Climer, RN
The rate of labor induction has reached an all-time high in the United States, with estimates climbing as high as 33.7 percent of all pregnancies. Inductions may be performed in cases where continuing a pregnancy presents clear health and safety risks to a mother [...]

Surviving an Overdue Pregnancy

by Teresa Redmond
Your belly is huge, your due date has passed, and yet little Susie or Johnny has shown no interest in moving out of his or her cozy home. Your due date is calculated by counting forward 280 days from the start of your last menstrual period. Your due date is only an estimate [...]