Sentences with phrase «own unassisted childbirth»

The home birth segment had very brief interviews with Ricki Lake and Abbie Epstein (producers of Business of Being Born) and Laura Shanley (author of Unassisted Childbirth).

Laura Shanley, author of the book Unassisted Childbirth and owner of the Bornfree!

website who blogs at Letters from Laura — Thoughts on Unassisted Childbirth, brought up that point and shared another perspective many of us may not have thought of when she shared the following statement with me:

Regardless of the outcome of this case, I will continue to speak out about unassisted childbirth as I believe that in most cases it's the safest and most satisfying way to give birth.

I had never heard of unassisted childbirth until today.

I had a unassisted childbirth, 2 hours from the nearest hospital, our birth was and remains the most powerful experiences of our lives.

The possibility of death is something that every woman who has a unassisted childbirth has to think about and come to terms with.

Unassisted Childbirth.

Unassisted childbirth isn't for everyone but every mom and family should know their options, understand childbirth and choose their place of birth — whether home, birth center or hospital — and their provider — whether MD, midwife or dad — with great care and with eyes wide open.

She also teaches a course on unassisted childbirth (which she unfortunately isn't offering this time of year).

Not only was the baby's life erased by her mother's tragic self - absorption; the baby's very existence has been blotted out to continue the illusion that unassisted childbirth is safe and «joyous.»

Unassisted childbirth (and its companion, unassisted pregnancy) involves shunning medical care of any kind, even a lay midwife.

Unassisted childbirth has no benefit to the baby and poses very serious risks to both the baby and the mother.

In the 1930s, obstetrician Dr. Grantly Dick - Read wrote a book called Natural Childbirth which promoted allowing a woman to have a baby as nature intended, that is as in a mostly unassisted childbirth.

Unassisted childbirth does not have the medical support the other methods have, unless the couple makes provision for it in their birth plan.

At least the subjects of the book are honest about why they like unassisted childbirth: Women don't deserve too much medical care, because women don't deserve much of anything.

This is why we can not get a good picture of what TRUE unassisted childbirth looks like by looking at birth in third world coutries or birth a hundred years ago.

You know the story: an unassisted childbirth ended with her baby's death, for reasons that have not yet been determined.

While many (if not most) unassisted childbirths have a happy ending, not all do.

There has been a bit of controversy about unassisted childbirth after Janet Fraser, the birth activist who coined the term «birth rape», gave birth to a baby girl who died.

I think Sheryl's logic and the research she undertook before setting off on her journey of unassisted childbirth took just about all of the risk out of her decision.

Sheryl's unassisted childbirth speaks of belief, love, conviction and the courage to see it through.

And Cate Nelson's Unassisted childbirth one woman's story, gave me reason to pause.

Wouldn't the leftovers include CNMs as well as Unassisted Childbirths?

I know some women who turned to home birth bc of a history of trauma, and others who have or plan for unassisted childbirth.

Even if you have an unassisted childbirth at home your wife and child will probably both be fine.

If you are interested in learning more I would suggest visiting the Unassisted Childbirth forum at Mothering.com.

Unfortunately, unassisted childbirth has become a controversial and debatable topic as well.

From my point of view, I think unassisted childbirth is something that's very sacred.

Sad to say, there's still some resistance to unassisted childbirth.

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Sunny Gault: Unassisted childbirth, yes, so when we're planning a homebirth, what typically happens?

I've written about unassisted childbirth in the past.

This issue is the Special Pregnancy Edition, and I thoroughly enjoyed Jennifer Margulis» article on Unassisted Childbirth called «Do - It - Yourself Birth.»

However, more and more women are trying to have their babies as natural as possible including having an unassisted childbirth.

Call me or e-mail me anytime if you want to know more about unassisted childbirth.

We read two books, one book called «Unassisted Childbirth» by Laura Shamley which she kind of like guru on the topic, and then there is another book called «Emergency Childbirth», just forgot the author but, it's really short, it's like what they give paramedics learn about delivering a baby you know and this thing like when things go wrong and what to do.

So I will link to all of that for all of you who wants some more information on unassisted childbirth.

And then, 7 days ago or less than a week, she had her own unassisted childbirth with her own baby.

So, it was kind of that factor and the money factor and we just started looking into different things and came up on unassisted childbirth and I hadn't ever heard of it.

Sunny Gault: Today we are discussing what it means to have an unassisted childbirth.

The first is with Sarah Pursell who recently had an unassisted childbirth and after the break, we are gonna speak with Laura Ramirez.

Her family recently spent a year traveling the country in their RV, the same RV where she gave birth to her youngest son in an Unassisted Childbirth (UC).

They read Unassisted Childbirth by Laura Shanley, a book on Emergency Childbirth, asked questions on mothering forums, and watched lots of YouTube videos of Unassisted Births.

When we come back Doula, Laura Ramirez is gonna talk about her experience witnessing an unassisted childbirth firsthand.

Nearly all human societies have the practice of assisting women as they give birth, and many anthropologists believe that the death rate in truly unassisted childbirth is too high for the human race to survive without it.

Unassisted childbirth which is the intentional decision to give birth without a medical or professional birth attendant

To watch unassisted childbirth on YouTube it's pretty a fun thing to watch and I let my kids watch them so that they could kind of know what to expect because they were here.

Sunny Gault: I think one of the interesting things about your story, Laura and of course I wan na hear it from you is that you actually didn't intend to have an unassisted childbirth.

Since we did not live in poverty, did not choose to invite medical professionals to our births, and had worked with ourselves to eliminate fear and other potentially destructive emotions, we knew that unassisted childbirth was the safest way for us to give birth.