This is a web site dedicated to all those who are amazed at the miracle of birth and who love to learn and teach about all types of births. We do this in the hopes of promoting positive and satisfying birth experiences that enhance the bonding of babies and mothers and fathers! Read Ecstatic Birth, the hormones and physiology of birth.
The phrase Protecting Normal Births means so many things. To some it might mean women having home births with midwives. To others it might mean women having no epidurals or pain medications even in a hospital birth. Many would think it means the lowest C-section rate physically possible. (i.e., if not influenced by "defensive OB practices") Protecting against medical intrusion? What does it mean to you? What do you think the lowest C-section rate physically possible is? How can we find that out?
Protecting Normal Birth is often cited as a goal of nurse-midwifery as a profession and nurse midwives as individuals. Does this infer that obstetricians don't want to protect normal birth? Lamaze International also uses the phrase so that women realize by preparing themselves for labor they can reduce their risk of being a statistic of the "too many un-necessary inductions, epidurals and C-sections today". But when is something truly un-necessary? Read Dr. Atul Gawande's article called Annals of Medicine "