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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Childbirth RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Millions of women will take the recommendations regarding homebirth from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists despite the blatant and inherent conflict of interest. It is absurd to take a recommendation from any group that [...]
Despite the fact that many people do not understand the choice to deliver a baby at home, homebirth is an option that more and more families are choosing. Homebirth 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]