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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 do best when left alone.
This point is made in a very dramatic way if you watch hospital birth videos side by side with home birth videos. Thank you Laura!
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i would like to say that no mother to be should have an unassisted birth. what happens if some thing went wrong, they have no equipment to immediatly deal with that situation and what happens if there carelessness ended up with there baby dieing they need to think about there actions and do the right thing by there child
@sheenade:
Your sentiments are fairly common sheenade, which is why unassisted childbirth is still fairly rare. Proponents of UC feel that most routine childbirth interventions performed by birth attendants interfere with the process of birth and cause harm to the mother, the baby or both.
The odds of interventions in childbirth with an attendant is 100%, while the odds of something suddenly “going wrong” that cannot be diagnosed in advance, such as breech presentation or placenta previa, is very rare. In the event that something unforeseen happens, women simply transfer to the hospital.