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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• Interview with Birth Made Easy Author Paola Bagnall

  
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• my birth plan // a healing

  
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• US maternity practices: routine vs. evidence-based

  
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• The Mother of All Natural Childbirth Tips: Allow it to happen

  
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• Natural childbirth: Benefits of lotus birth vs. delayed cord clamping

  
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• The Benefits of A Water Birth

  
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  The Benefits of A Water Birth Water birth is exactly what it sounds like, giving birth in a tub of water. Of course you will want to keep the water warm as that is most comfortable for mother and child. While it is an uncommon practice, it is one with many benefits. Some who go [...]
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• What Does Tim LaHaye Have to Do with Doulas?

  
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• The 14 Minute Baby

  
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