Sign the Petition to Keep Home Birth Legal

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Childbirth RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Please take a moment to sign this homebirth petition to show your support of every woman’s right to choose where and how she births her baby. If you have not done so already, you may want [...]

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 [...]

How to Choose a Doula

” Doula is a Greek word which means a woman who helps another woman. In regards to childbirth, a doula is a woman who provides support to the mother, in labor or pospartum, and possibly also to their family. Over the last 20 years more than 13 scientific studies have shown that when one woman [...]

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 [...]

5 Reasons Why You Need a Doula

by Sita Payne Romero, LMT, CD
A doula is a labor support professional who can assist you when going through childbirth. Traditionally, women were always attended by other experienced women to help them get through this difficult life transition. In the modern day hospital setting, women are generally unattended until it is time to actually deliver. [...]

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 [...]

My Birth Doula

by Suzanne Doyle-Ingram
By the time my husband and I finally got pregnant the first time, I had done a lot of reading about birth options and we had already decided to have a midwife instead of a doctor. We believe that pregnancy is a healthy state of being, and unless something came up, a midwife [...]

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 [...]