Birth Unplugged

staceyjw left a comment on a post I previously had a link to in my list of "favorite posts" in my sidebar, which prior to receivin...

Sometimes we get caught in a trap of holding up a spontaneous, drug-free vaginal birth as an ideal, because, well, most women should be a...

So, you want to change maternity care providers but your husband doesn't understand why you should go through the trouble? You want a n...

I have written about how a doula can help with different plans for hospital births and for homebirths. A post by Navelgazing Midwife made ...

A recent article out of Australia, Fear of natural birth driving one in three mothers to cesarean , addresses the issue of maternal request ...

My goal is not for everyone to have a natural birth. Of course I believe that, in cases where everything is going smoothly, mothers and babi...

A press release today from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists explained that the organization is tweaking it's pre...

Fear of the Unknown It is normal to fear the unknown. For most first time pregnant women, birth is a huge unknown. Not only have we never ...

Whether it's breastfeeding vs. formula feeding, cloth vs. disposable diapers, cosleeping vs. independent sleeping, or stay-at-home mom v...

Clarification: I use the term "birth attendant" here to describe a maternity care provider such as a physician or midwife, not a d...

I just finished reading the dissertation Born Free: Unassisted Childbirth in North America by Rixa Freeze, PhD, of Stand and Deliver . All...

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror . -Kahlil Gibran I watched my first baby being born with a mirror. I felt like it helped m...

Before I got pregnant with my first baby, what limited knowledge I had about birth led me to two conclusions: 1) birth is painful, but 2) ...