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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.

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The Moon’s Effect on Natural Childbirth

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

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Insider’s Response to the AMA
• Visit Fearless Birthing to read the full text of a letter written by practicing OB/GYN and member of the ACOG, addressing the AMA and demanding answers regarding the resolution to take steps against homebirth. Not only did the resolution take this OB by surprise, but he is demanding answers (as all of us are) [...] Read More
Sign the Petition to Keep Home Birth Legal
• 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 to stop by your local video store or Netflix so you can watch The Business of Being Born [...] Read More
How to Make Hospital Births Better
• If you have been following the AMA resolution regarding homebirth, you simply must read this well written, eloquent and very useful article written by Navelgazingmidwife. It includes 11 steps that hospitals, labor and delivery nurses and obstetricians can take to keep women from running to homebirth by making the hospital birth experience more human. [...] Read More
Sex after Childbirth
• A recent article in Psychology Today looked at how a couple’s sexual relationship is affected following childbirth. Like many articles before it, it primarily examined in the difference in attitudes following cesarean births vs vaginal births and the main focus seemed to be on the pelvic floor. On the outside, it seems to [...] Read More
Study Shows Heel Prick DOES Hurt Baby
• Apparently medical doctors need a study to prove that they are hurting a newborn baby when they jab it with a sharp metal instrument. The new study found that babies may find the heel prick far more painful than doctors realize. Researchers studied brain scans and facial reactions even though the baby may [...] Read More