Help us change the world of childbirth... |
| Quotes for childbirth All babies are beautiful. Jeanne Calment |
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Freely adapted by John Rakestraw from Shakespear's Henry V
 This beautiful artwork is by Toni Rakestraw. You can see more of her wonderful art at Zazzle.com |
We are asking for your support in this most important project. As the medical system has turned childbirth into a medical procedure, erroneously thinking that women can't give birth without interventions, we ask that you step forward with your voice, with your passion and with your pocketbook. We would like to invite anyone with a homebirth experience to share with us. Mothers, fathers, siblings, grandparents, midwives, doulas or anyone else who has a story to share are welcome to contact us. We would love video clips if possible... if you can't do video, please write or record an audiotape of your childbirth feelings down and share them with us. Contact us to find out details on how to send files. |
We want to create an amazing collage of homebirth... what it is like, thoughts about it, your fears, your joys... how did it impact your family? Did it bring them closer together? Would you do it again?
Everyone who contributes will be listed in the credits, and anyone who wants to help support the project financially will also be given credit.
Our goal is to create a film that will show what homebirth truly means to so many families. Please join us and be a part of this amazing project.
We need to re-educate the world about trusting birth. Families should see birth as the natural event that it is, and they should be able to celebrate it appropriately.
To learn more about Project Homebirth!
by Toni Rakestraw |
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Than Just Avoiding a Cesarean.
| Do you think childbirth belongs in the hospital? Think about these questions for a moment. Do you need medical help eating a meal? Going to the bathroom? Being intimate with your partner?
Women giving birth is a natural process just like these other natural processes. Yes, sometimes you need help giving birth, and that is what hospitals are for. Just like sometimes you choke when you are eating, or have a bowel problem that needs attention. But by and large, in the majority of births, it works like it is supposed to. This happens best in a homebirth, where there is more privacy and less intervention. Expectant couples need to explore the whole world of child birth together. There's a lot out there to read, watch and to discuss.The best way to help you work together is to keep the lines of communication open. Most of us have two ears, two eyes and one mouth. Which means we should listen and read twice as much as we talk! Just think... our bodies are amazing. They can grow babies from two tiny cells to millions of cells all by themselves.If a body can do that, what makes you think that this same body can't birth that same baby? Human beings would have died out a long time ago if natural birth didn't work.
So before you sign up for that elective cesarean, take a moment and think about what your body can really do... what it was meant to do. Childbirth is not a routine surgical procedure. Take a few moments and find out just what a wonderful process natural birth truly is. |
