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

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Process Of Natural Childbirth

“I Believe…..That birth is inherently safe. The same loving, intelligent consciousness (All That Is, Goddess, God, Nature) that knows how to grow an egg and a sperm into a human being, knows how to get it out. Our job is simply to relax and trust. Birth is not a function of the conscious mind any [...]

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 [...]

Hypnosis for Child Birth

by Nathalie Fiset
Every mom looks forward to the thought of carrying the child in her arms but not all of them are looking forward to the idea of the baby coming out of them. Mention the word “Labor” or the word “Delivery” to a pregnant woman during her last trimester and surely her heart will [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]