Wanted to mention midwives...

Check out this site!

This could be considered..

pro homebirth but SCARY is the only word that comes to mind:(

http://www.parents.com/parents/story.jsp?storyid=/templatedata/parents/story/data/1191006674212.xml

ACOG, Home-birth, Responses

ACOG Statement on out of hospital birth.

Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology's long held stance.

An interesting site with some links and bits about the actual safety of home-birth.

BMJ study regarding the safety of home-birth.

A summary of the study from gentle birth archives.

The gentle birth archives home-birth safety/advocacy page.

Some blog responses to the re-statement from ACOG:

Pushed Birth

The True Face of Birth

More Interesting Stuff From You Tube

Although the subject is cleary on her back this is a pretty neat animation of normal vaginal birth.


This video gives a good view of the stations you are often given in late pregnancy.

Labor Pain Myths

The hardest thing about going into a natural childbirth can be the myths we cling tight to about labor pain.

Here are a few websites that inspire a new belief system about labor and what the sensations of it (be they pain, fear, ecstasy, etc.) mean...

Birthing Naturally- Labor Pains: Myths and Truths

Dr Sears: Managing Pain in Labor

Doula's Guide to Comfort Measures in Childbirth

Sources of Pain in Labor and Birth

How Does Labor Pain Differ From Other Types of Pain, and more

Do you know your childbirth ed options??

Lamaze International:Here is an interesting story by USA today and the Giving Birth with Confidence blogs response.

The Bradley Method: I found this great website from a former instructor that breaks the classes down. Bradley is traditional big on significant other support.

Hypnosis in Labor

Find a childbirth educator: CAPPA, ICEA, ALACE, Lamaze.

A great article

What Women Are Not Told About Childbirth

It is based upon the recent

Listening to Mothers II survey.