Archive for the 'Unassisted Childbirth' Category

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

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

“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 […]

Video: Unassisted Childbirth Testimonial

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Many unassisted and midwife assisted homebirths are preceded by a traumatic hospital birth. This video is one family’s moving unassisted childbirth testimonial.

Video: Natural Waterbirth

Monday, August 20th, 2007

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 job of letting things happen naturally. Notice how easily the baby slides out into the birthing tub.

Lobotomies, Medical Childbirth and Dinosaurs

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

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 harming and in some cases killing innocent women and their babies.

Homebirth: The Family Choice

Monday, August 13th, 2007

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 a safe, gentle welcome into the world.

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