Home Birth

What's So Scary About Home Birth?

Amie Newman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living


Amie Newman

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.

Extreme Birth, Indeed

Jennifer Block | Posted 05.01.2009 | Living


Jennifer Block

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

Orgasmic Birth: The Natural Reality Behind The Hype

Lee Stranahan | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living


Lee Stranahan

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.

Docs to Women: Pay No Attention to Ricki Lake's Home Birth

Ricki Lake, Jennifer Block, and Abby Epstein | Posted 06.26.2008 | Living


Ricki Lake, Jennifer Block, and Abby Epstein

The physicians of America have issued their decree -- they don't want you having your babies at home with midwives -- we can't imagine why not. They have no evidence to back up their claims.