Birthing Alternatives
Information,
resources and support for empowering child birth.
A
site for parents and alternative birth professionals.
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Welcome
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The extent and magnificence of the medical discoveries
made during the last hundred years is beyond both praise and gratitude.
But now that many of the troubles and dangers have been overcome, we must
move on - not to save more lives, but actually to bring happiness to replace
the agony of fear. For although the consciousness of a woman's discomfort
can now be dispelled, it is only at a price, for with it goes the awareness
of birth and the joyful sensations and emotions that should accompany
it. Now we must bring a fuller life, truer to natural law, to women. |
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The truth for women living in a modern world is that
they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into
birth if they want their birth to be natural. Making choices of where
and with whom to birth is not the same as bringing knowledge and skills
into your birth regardless of where and with whom you birth. |
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Just as a woman's heart knows how and when to pump, her
lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when
and how to give birth. |
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If we are to heal the planet, we must begin by healing
birthing. |
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What's done to children, they will do to society. |
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$13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care
costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging
breastfeeding. |
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