The Magical, Magnificent Placenta

Modern, detached women may view the placenta with disgust and revulsion, but it is a highly evolved, incredible organ that carries both function, spirit and yes, nutrition.

A Better Birthing Model

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

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 [...]

Birthrape

Until yesterday, I had never heard the term Birthrape although I knew all too well what it was. I ran across a homebirth study being done by a “PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Iowa, investigating current home birth cultures, with a strong focus on unassisted birth“.
One of the sections of [...]

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 [...]

Lobotomies, Medical Childbirth and Dinosaurs

Why Unassisted Childbirth and lay Midwife Assisted Homebirth is the way of the future.
by Sheryl Lyon
Someday anthropologists are going to look back on this period of history with shock and horror. They are going to study how not only the medical community routinely invaded childbirth for profit but also performed unnecessary tests and procedures, inevitably [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Home Birth Is A No-Brainer

by Yvonne Lapp Cryns
Home birth with a midwife is a no-brainer — government statistics since statistical compilation began a century ago show the superiority of non-medical midwife-attended home birth.
Yet, a government license does not ensure competence or safety - licensure is about limiting and controlling who can give health care information. For example, the hypocrisy [...]

Planning a Homebirth

Author: Nicky Pilkington

Once upon a time, women’s only childbirth option was to give birth at home. As medicine evolved, doctors’ offices and hospitals became the norm for labor and delivery which created an entire industry but not necessarily to the benefit of women and children.
Rural communities remained isolated from modern facilities and midwives took [...]