On Natural Birth...
The real question about safety is not whether you want a pleasant
birth at home or a safe birth in the hospital ? It is, “Do you want
to give birth at home and run the miniscule risk of an emergency that
might (but not necessarily would) be handled better in the hospital,
or do you want to give birth in the hospital and run the considerably
increased risk of infection, the certainty of additional stress, and
the near certainty of having unnecessary (and potentially risky
interventions?”) ~ Henri Goer
Members of the home birth movement have chosen their alternative form
of care not through faulty understanding of medical principles, but as a result
of active and reasoned disagreement with them. ~ Bonnie O’Connor |
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I am grateful to my sicilian nonna that she kept the family tradition of birthing at home. I am glad that I too kept that way alive and had my three children at home. As a midwife I have a responsibility to help each woman and baby birth naturally, to keep them connected to traditional birthing ways. My tool as a midwife is Motherwit….common sense. Now is the time to reclaim ancient birthing practices and bring our future children into this world naturally, with love and respect. I can hear the babies asking us to treat them with the greatest of respect. NOW. Clara Loprinzi, traditional mammana
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