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Q: Here is a great resource site for anyone interested in homebirth and natural birth(and a little rant

so here is a wonderful site that I have really come to enjoy. It's packed with info, as well as amazing birth stories!
http://www.indiebirth.com/

I hope everyone else enjoys it as well!

I believe in the empowerment of women and the sacred nature of birth. I find it sad that more women are afraid of natural childbirth than they are of major surgery today, and I think that it is time to bring back our own personal power when it comes to childbirth and our bodies. We're not patients with a serious illness, we're women doing the most natural and sacred thing we can...bringing a new life into the world. Our intuitions are very powerful and I think that it is time to get back in touch with our sacred rite. This is a powerful and transformative time in a womans life.

â??The first intervention in natural childbirth is the one that a healthy woman does herself when she walks out the front door of her own home in labour.â??â?? Michael Rosenthal, OB/GYN


This question was asked May. 31, 2012 3:39pm
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Answered by BabyDaisy - May. 31, 2012 6:48pm
Fair enough. I'm UK-based, so can't really comment on intervention in the US - though from what I understand women can be put under quite a lot of pressure to have intervention (my SIL is pregnant and in the US). I think that's really sad, and the main reason I don't want to be in hospital is because I'm scared of being encouraged to have a procedure I don't need or want, just to save doctors' time.

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