natural childbirth

Most people think that the hardest thing in the world is re-enacting the entire Civil War with finger puppets. But they're wrong. The hardest thing in the world – at least for women – is natural childbirth.

Natural childbirth is, in a nutshell, childbirth at home without any medication or medical intervention. It's like have a root canal without any Novocaine.

Up until the Industrial Revolution, most women gave birth at home without medicine. This all changed when people began to gather in cities and live in dirty, congested living spaces. Women began to go to hospitals to give birth because they were the only clean, sanitized locations in some inner cities. This trend caught on and soon almost all women of all social classes were going to hospitals to give birth.

Then, the pendulum began to swing back in the 1940's, as childbirth professionals began to challenge the assumptions of medical intervention. They began to argue that natural childbirths were better and safer. Now birthing centers, water births, and home births are commonplace across most of the world. Some women consider natural childbirth to be primitive and unnecessarily painful. But as hard as it is, some women consider natural childbirth empowering.

Bloggers speaking about natural childbirth can be found at such sites as natural-childbirth and wonderfullymadebelliesandbabies.

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