Sentences with phrase «own unassisted birth»

The media has failed to differentiate between freebirth or unassisted birth (no midwife or doctor) and homebirth (a birth at home, usually with a midwife or homebirth doctor).

I don't think homebirth, or even unassisted birth is «extreme» and quite frankly it's better they didn't focus heavily on those, no?

While I did not consider giving birth at home without a midwife in attendance for my home birth, I know a handful of women who chose an unassisted birth and I respect them for it.

There is a large unassisted birth community and general support for birth plans.

Many well educated women choose to have unassisted births.

I receive emails from women on a regular basis who have heard that I have had successful VBAC unassisted births and want some direction and advice because their insurance company won't cover the birth they want and they don't have money to pay out of pocket.

My take on the larger issues that surround unassisted birth... I think that it underscores the need for MORE, not less, choice.

Some advocates of unassisted birth are quick to point the fallacies of western medicine.

And you can not tell me that it would EVER be the safest thing to have an unassisted birth.

Unassisted birth does not mean solo birth.

As for tribal cultures who practice unassisted birth, very few first time mothers deliver alone.

Or have an unassisted birth.

People are getting confused, unassisted birth refers to a birth not attended by a trained midwife or OB.

There is no doubt I would have died if I chose an unassisted birth.

I've had one c - section, one unassisted birth, a midwife assisted birth, and a hospital VBAC.

It is interesting to learn that women are willing to go to the extreme of an unassisted birth for something like a VBAC when a licensed doctor or midwife could attend to her.

And I never asserted unassisted birth is just as safe as midwife - assisted birth.

Also, to make the assertion that an unassisted birth is just as safe as using a trained, licensed midwife without any data can be construed as equally misleading.

An unassisted birth carries obvious risks.

Here's what you should know about the pros and cons.Having an unassisted birth means you're likely giving birth in the comfort of your own home, without the assistance of a registered midwife or obstetrician.

Ina May Gaskin and Laura Shanley both have excellent books about homebirths and unassisted births.

(My new book, The Unassisted Birth Manual, is forthcoming.

Watch this short video about how this couple reacts to their unassisted birth at a stop light Keep in mind that when a baby comes quickly like this, without much difficulty, no help is necessary and there is nothing to panic about:) Rest well Iowa family and Happy «BIRTH» day to your little one!Read more

If you're helping these hospital - phobic women with their normal deliveries, and telling them straight when things are not normal, you're probably helping public health overall, especially if the alternative is letting them try unassisted birth.

She declared that she could facilitate the most magnificent birth that one could imagine; better than a homebirth, better than an unassisted birth... an orgasmic birth!

Unassisted birth can be viewed as an effort to make absolutely certain that there is no one to dent their fragile self - esteem by questioning them in any way.

But our friends had just had an accidental unassisted birth since it went so fast!

That said, I wasn't displeased to have had an unassisted birth.»

I think in my heart I'd love an unassisted birth, but since we have people flying in from all over the world, I don't know if it will happen, so am not putting my hopes on it... I'm just so in love with this beautiful story.

I'd read all the hippie earth - mother rhetoric, the really radical stuff about unassisted birth and birth being a natural process that happens on its own, and it made sense to me.

-- all born at home in various circumstances: a planned unassisted birth, a CNM - attended home birth, and most recently a surprise unassisted birth (the midwife was en route).

One plus of unassisted birth, she adds, is that «you can still have traditional prenatal care with a doctor or midwife, even if you choose to birth on your own.»

I gather the 3 books out there on unassisted birth and read up... or rather try to.

Tips for an Unassisted Birth

If you're having a routine pregnancy with no complications and feel confident in your birth experience, having an unassisted birth should carry few risks.

He's explaining to her that we are going to do an unassisted birth at home, and she is freaking out.

So, I pick her brain about the mechanics of birth, what to have on - hand for unassisted birth, what signs of emergency to keep an eye out for (which would mean transferring to the hospital), the variations in normal birth, pain, pushing, stages of birth, all of that.

We planned an unassisted birth at home.

«If you get anxious around medical providers or have had a poor previous experience with doctors or midwives, an unassisted birth may be a more relaxed experience and could make you feel safer,» says Gina Crosley - Corcoran, a doula and childbirth educator and blogger at The Feminist Breeder.

Having an unassisted birth means you're likely giving birth in the comfort of your own home, without the assistance of a registered midwife or obstetrician.

Regular readers know that among all the supposedly «natural» childbirth practices, I reserve special contempt for unassisted birth.

Both the baby and the mother died at an unassisted birth.

American Laura Shanley claims that she had 4 wonderful unassisted births, but she has actually had 5.

Unassisted birth advocate Rixa Freeze ponders how different women can view epidurals very differently:

Maybe the homebirthers would say she cheated me out of an unassisted birth experience?

You are genetically capable of unassisted birth.

Birth be cray, like mom having an almost unassisted birth in her bathroom and then having to be transported without her new sweet one.

Unless the mother is too wooy or a midwife herself, it does seem that a free birthing mother is more likely to go to a doctor or hospital if there are complications which could explain why unassisted births in either the Colorado or Oregon study showed a lower mortality rate for unassisted than midwife attended.

Luckily, my husband and I were both mentally prepared to have an unassisted birth so we were not worried that the midwives were late or that my doula never arrived.

We see stats on hospital, birth center, and midwife - attended home birth, but never unassisted birth...