Natural Childbirth

The Journey to Labor Land: How Women Can Reclaim Their Birth Rights

Lindsay Pyfer | Posted 04.23.2012

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No wonder so many women these days are leery of natural childbirth -- or even vaginal birth -- not realizing how perfectly their bodies are designed for it. As are babies.

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Midwife Gets Sentenced For Unlawfully Delivering Baby

AP | By GREG RISLING | Posted 11.16.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- Katharine McCall found herself in a tough spot over the Thanksgiving weekend four years ago as she tended to a woman in labor. The stud...

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What They Didn't Tell Me in Lamaze Class

Lindsay Pyfer | Posted 10.24.2011

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When my electric fetal monitor test didn't come out as it should, my husband and I were terrified.

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Is Pain-Free Birth Achievable?

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 10.02.2011

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On a rainy June night, six couples strained to get a better view of a home video of a woman, legs spread, giving birth. The room was hushed -- the...

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Natural Childbirth: 4 Key Strategies To Help You Through

Toni Nagy | Posted 11.17.2011

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In order to make the decision to have an old school birthing experience, you have to substitute fear for curiosity.

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Why Home Births Are Worth Considering

Melissa Cheyney | Posted 11.17.2011

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If doctors and midwives could be willing to learn from and respect one another, women and babies in our country would benefit.

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Are Today's OBs Giving Women What They Really Want?

Abi Cotler O'Roarty | Posted 11.17.2011

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Like a midwife, Dr. Biter puts in endless hours to stay very present in a labor, however lengthy, and tailors the care to maximize a woman's innate ability to birth her baby without interventions.

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Why I'm Protesting For My Natural-Birth Friendly OB

Abi Cotler O'Roarty | Posted 11.17.2011

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These women may enter a hospital only to have their powerful inner voice taken away when they are told to question what they know about their own bodies.

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Maternal Mortality: It's Time for Our Leaders to Take Notice

Martha Wainwright | Posted 05.25.2011

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At least 350,000 women die every year from complications developed during pregnancy and childbirth. That's an unthinkable 40 women every hour. It's time to fix things.

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Laboring Under An Illusion: Mass Media Childbirth vs. The Real Thing

Amie Newman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Elson has been working with pregnant women for many years; her answers to my questions and her perspective seem wonderfully balanced, rooted in a concern for what is best for women.

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To Induce Or Not To Induce - Is That The Question?

Amie Newman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Are there "good" reasons for inducing labor through medical intervention? It's a loaded question for which different providers may give you different answers.

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What's So Scary About Home Birth?

Amie Newman | Posted 11.17.2011

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The Today Show presents homebirth as an option to be feared, but that's only because the unknown is often a scary venture. If you listen to women's experiences, It doesn't have to be that way.

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Natural Home Childbirth: Amazing!

Grant Cardone | Posted 11.17.2011

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In the US today, only 1% of all deliveries are done at home. The AMA obviously did a great sales job of convincing the US population away from natural childbirth an into the hospital.

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Extreme Birth, Indeed

Jennifer Block | Posted 11.17.2011

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Routine maternity ward monitoring, inducing, and anesthetizing have added up to millions of unnecessary cesarean sections: a hospital childbirth system gone insane.

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Orgasmic Birth: The Natural Reality Behind The Hype

Lee Stranahan | Posted 11.17.2011

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Orgasmic Birth certainly is a grabber of a title. Those aren't two words normally found close together in a sentence. In our culture, other adjectives are more common such as Painful Childbirth.

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More Babies Being Born At Home

NYTimes.com | Julie Scelfo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Recently, though, midwives and childbirth educators say, a growing number of women have been opting instead for the more intimate and familiar surroun...

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Is Natural Childbirth Passe?

abcnews.com | Susan Donaldson James | Posted 11.17.2011

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Pregnant with her first child, Julie Speier prepared to deliver with the help of a midwife at a New York City birthing center. But in June -- three we...

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