A Beautiful Unassisted Childbirth Story

This personal unassisted childbirth story was found at www.theage.com.au on May 27, 2007. An excerpt:
“For Clare Morrissey, her planned freebirth, at home without any medical assistance, was “absolutely beautiful”. After two hospital births, both with epidurals, and her third at a birthing centre, Mrs Morrissey decided to have a homebirth free of any help [...]

Midwife Made Mother Feel Like She Was Dying

According to an article in the Waterford Observer, a midwife was found guilty of misconduct after she pulled so hard on a mother’s umbilical cord that the mother “screamed in agony and feared she would die”.
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Sheryl’s comments:
And people think unassisted birth is uncivilized??? This is a classic example [...]

Video:An Almost Perfect Childbirth

This video was removed by Youtube and I want to cry. It was an incredible example of how fast and painless childbirth can be in the absence of interventions. I want to drop an apple on every OB-GYNs head (and many midwives) because clearly they never learned about a little something called gravity in [...]

Video:Unassisted Childbirth

This is a nice video by Laura Shanley who wrote the book “Unassisted Childbirth” and runs the site www.unassistedchildbirth.com. The concept of not using a doctor or midwife at all makes so much sense when you come to terms with the fact that a woman’s body already knows how to give birth and will [...]

Why Babies Prefer Natural Childbirth

Childbirth is a life changing event which can be both exhilarating and draining, the greatest experience of one’s life or the worst. Childbirth carries tremendous dogma, old wives tales, traditions, and controversy.
Adults have their own rhyme and reason for birth choices. Doctors and midwives make choices for convenience, scheduling, to avoid lawsuits or for profit. [...]

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 [...]

Video: Childbirth Video in a Hospital

This is another great example of why unassisted childbirth is best for mother and child.
This is a short, silent clip of another hospital birth video. Hospital childbirths are always disturbing and here is another great example. First of all, notice the birthing position. The poor mother is nothing more than a vagina [...]

Who Says Childbirth Needs to be Painful?

Source: PRWeb.com
Secrets of having a great birth are uncovered in this newly released book. 48 moms share their stories and wisdom through their own inspirational birth stories.
(PRWEB) — Studies show that nine out of ten first-time mothers are afraid of giving birth and worried about the pain. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Childbirth [...]

Unassisted Childbirth in the News

Freebirthing is making headlines as more and more women are choosing to keep this intimate, personal event, well….intimate and personal. Unassisted Childbirth really stirs up emotions in those that believe we should blindly trust the medical establishment (“yes sir, mr. doctor sir) and let them do whatever they like to us. Perhaps if [...]

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 [...]