https://www.romper.com/p/i-had-unassisted-home-birth-again-19428177 Home Birth: Benefits and Tips For centuries giving birth at home was the norm. By the 1900s increasing numbers of women started having their babies at hospitals. However, as our understanding of anatomy, modern medicine, the mechanics of childbirth, and technology have significantly increased, more women have been willing to consider the option of …
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Choosing Your Birth Team
Choosing Your Birth Team Choosing the members of your birth team is one of the most important decisions that you’ll make during your pregnancy. This person or group of providers will support you emotionally and physically throughout your pregnancy, advocate (and hopefully pursue) your wishes during labor, and check in on you during your postpartum …
Is Home Birth For You?
Long before there were hospitals to deliver in (and even long after hospitals started to spring up), women were having babies at home — often in the same bed they themselves were born in. But with the unsanitary conditions and haphazard medical care that were the norm a couple hundred years ago, it was hardly …
How To Prepare For A Home Birth
Since I know a lot of people are curious about home births, today I thought I’d share with you how to prepare for a home birth. Or, at the very least, the steps that I am taking to prepare for mine. Find a Midwife First and foremost, you need to find a home birth midwife. …
So You’ve Heard About Home Birth…
Located photo here. Pretty sure it wins for best home birth meme of all time!! We all know how the story goes, right? Contractions start, our water breaks, we rush to the hospital and the doctor delivers our baby, we stay 2 days and then go home. But what if you wanted a different story? …
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