a Childbirth
Unassisted Natural Childbirth
Unassisted natural childbirth after a c-section. It almost went unassisted with wonderful support and minimal interferance.
Here is what the mother says about the unassisted natural childbirth:
"A perfectly normal ordinary three day freebirth after previous caesarean surgery."
Here are some of the comments about the unassisted video clips home childbirth:
"I had a homebirth with my second and it was the most beautiful moment of my life. My hospital birth with my 1st wasn't horrible, but it wasn't the same. I will never forget resting on the stairs while my hubby and midwife quietly watched the birds in the garden that sunny summer morning. It was the most peaceful heavenly thing I have ever done and I will relive it for the rest of my life. "
"I'm having a home birth when my second baby is due in September. I had an awful hospital experience and when I had time to reflect on it, vowed never to have another baby there again! I know I will feel more relaxed at home.... all I need to do is trust my body and know I can do it!! I'm not saying this is for eveyone, and " lets start a trend" but I feel if you're an independant person, this is for you... "
"Beautiful...cried and cried...can I blame my pregnancy hormones? :) I too am looking forward to a waterbirth and freebirth. "
"I'm trying to say that birth in itself is NOT inherently dangerous. I think I made the reply to another comment, and it went haywire... but the point I'm trying to make is I get furious when people play the "dead African babies" card, because these babies don't die because BIRTH is dangerous or anything like that, they die mostly because of the factors I mentioned."
"I sure did want a homebirth for my 2-year-old boy and 3-month-old girl, but unfortunately I am a diabetic and considered very, very "high risk" (though my blood sugars were perfect and I am otherwise quite healthy). So, there will never be any home birth for me.
I did the next best thing (can you even really call it that?) and gave birth without any meds in the hospital. :(
I would have given my right arm for a birth like yours, though! Very inspirational, and so beautiful! Thanks for sharing. "
"Insulin-Dependent Diabetes
Home birth is unusual but is still an option, with careful monitoring of yours and the baby's condition. For one insulin-dependent diabetic mother's story, see Diabetic Birth Without the Drip, on the AIMS website. Diabetic mother Debbie Dooley gave a talk at a midwifery conference on Diabetes and Home Birth and has also written her birth story. For more on diabetes and pregnancy generally, see the Diabetes UK website"
"I am so pleased that you put your video on here, its such an inspiration for Mothers-To-Be out there. After a CS and a VBAC I am hoping to have my baby naturally at home since I am sure that the medical 'help' actually made things worse with my VBAC. Now I know I can have a normal delivery and with Mother Goddesses' like you showing how it supposed to be done I am confident in my body and Mother Nature to do it the right way!
Love to you all
x "
"Wow, that was beautiful. I was born at home, and I already knew that I wanted to homebirth my own children, but it's videos like this that make it solid in my mind. Thanks for getting the word out! God Bless. :)"
"I just wanted to say "Thank you" to the maker of this video. I had a very traumatic and unnecessary c-section 3 years ago and now i am planning to birth at home, unassisted ( with only my husband and my daughter present) in December. Your beautiful video gives me strength and reminds me that I CAN BIRTH MY SON! Thanks again and congrats on a beautiful baby and a happy family. :)"
"Living in Africa, I'd just like to say the following words and let YOU decide how they impact pregnancy and birth: Poverty, teenage births (12 and younger - common), pelvic disproportion because of some tribal customs, female circumcision, no education, no information, no choices, no hope for anything better out of life than the next meal."
"Midwives offered physical and emotional support without vaginal examinations or pathology testing or inductions. They assisted women to birth UPRIGHT on birthing stools not in the lithotomy position, they gave women food and water while they laboured. Find me a MEDwife who does that .. they'll soon be fired by the obstetritian they work under. The midwives who worked during the time of the pharoahs didn't report to obstertitians, they were truly working with woman, they were real midwives. "
"Yes Midwives were present in the times of Pharoahs and long before then aswell. They didn't do any of the crap that MEDwives in hospitals do today."
"The fact of the matter is that freebirth isn't a choice, it's a decision. A lot of thought goes into it, as well as a lot of preparation. Women who decide to freebirth are intelligent, prepared, and empowered human beings. They should not be chastised like they're naughty girls because they didn't have a midwife in attendance. What crap. "
"Also, to the midwife, how you think a birth with a midwife present is garunteed to be similar to a freebirth, is beyond me. Introducing an unwanted party would affect a woman's sense of safety and ability to relax, thus birthing the way she needs to. That's not conductive to a positive birth."
"I had a still birth in hospital. I will freebirth my next baby. Stillbirth is not an argument for medicalising birth. Still birth does create an element of terror, but anybody wise knows that the medicalisation of birth is far more dangerous to mothers and babies."
"Freebirth doesn't come about from ignorance but from a calculated, well thought out response to the danger of the wrong kind of care and the knowledge that women are their own best carer. Unexpected stillbirth isn't prevented by birthing in hospital or by having a midwife in attendance. If only it were so. The reality of *life* is that sometimes babies die, rarely at home, more commonly in highly intervened births in hospitals."
"If this stillbirth was your baby then I'm truly sorry and I wish you healing. Twenty years is a long time to live with unresolved grief. I recently supported my sister to birth her stillborn baby in a hospital and it would have been a significantly better experience for her, and her family, had it happened in the sacred loving confines of her home. Birth is as safe as life gets and sometimes life includes death. Hospitals can't undo that reality."
"Freebirthers accept that reality and use technology when appropriate just not in a routine way which no evidence has ever proven to be of benefit to women and babies."
"Wonderful well done you. How sad you felt a midwife couldn't have helped you achieve a similar far safer birth. "
"My previous caesarean was an unnecessary transfer from a homebirth thanks to being timed out by my mw. My second birth was a freebirth because the next mw I hired dumped me after saying I'd probably need another caesarean because my baby was HUGE. She was 3.7kg.
Midwives per se don't make safety but an informed, empowered consumer sure does. Freebirth is my safe birth, thanks. Midwives are *not* a homogenous group all equally devoted to evidence and serving women. If only it were so. "
"Yes to the candle, the cat, the family and the beautiful freebirth you gave your baby. Absolutely what your baby deserves!
Thanks for sharing this with everyone. I hope it inspires others! ."
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