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.

by outdoorsurvivalguy Are you a writer, passionate about this or any other topic? Join Blogcritics!

Original Technorati articles tagged “natural childbirth”

• in Family
  "Natural" Childbirth vs.....um "UNnatural" Childbirth?
  Do our choices play a role in Infant Mortality Rates?
  by deepnthought86 / on Oct 15, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “natural childbirth”

 

• Midwives Know Birth Matters [video]

  
  — Authority:
  Midwives Know Birth Matters [video] is a post from: Eco Childs Play
  6 days ago

• Midwifery Care: What’s in it for Women? [video]

  
  — Authority:
  Midwifery Care: What’s in it for Women? [video] is a post from: Eco Childs Play
  2 weeks ago

• Where to Have Baby – Natural Childbirth Options and Birthing Plans

  
  — Authority:
  Giving birth naturally can be quite an achievement. Natural childbirth is where a pregnant woman experiences labor and delivery without the use of pain medication. A woman’s body is pre-programmed to handle childbirth and the labor pains that come along with it. If women knew all of their options when it comes to ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Thank You Note, on the Death of Your Daughter.

  
  — Authority:
  My chiropractor and his wife had a baby girl last week.  She lived for 7 1/2 hours, and then died.  Hubby and I spent the last week not knowing this.  We only knew that she had been born and that there were complications, and that it was not good.   I got to my appointment today and found out the rest.  For the ...
  4 weeks ago

Comments about natural childbirth