Planning a Homebirth

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]