Birth

Oh, this is just my own take on this process. I watch a lot of "Discovery" both hospital and
natural (if possible) mid-wife, and doctor facilitator birth-centers.

Many mothers know ahead of time that they do not want a natural birth without an epidural for the pain.

The babies are more calm and the delivery shorter with a natural birth with a birth stool. I always thought gravity could play a hugh impact on a delivery...why not use the power of gravity? Hospitals don't take advantage of this more "natural" process. Sitting up in a birthing tub or using a birth stool makes sense to me.

Birthing centers believe in allowing the body to take time as needed. Using acupuncture to simulate labor for example...causing the uterus to relax allowing the baby to extend. This makes sense to me. In this case the acupuncture worked and her labor pains beginning now feel more effective.

The woman who used the birthing stool had an all natural birth. Labor and birth took a mere five hours.

It does look painful....and not for me. She shouldn't fight the pain..I know that is easy to say.....but try to relax go with it and just when you think you can't stand it anymore it will
be over :) again easy for me to say. I think this delivery process should be required viewing
for all young girls. Yeah...let them hear the hollering and screaming of pain....good deterent I'd say! But truly in a time of passion....who thinks of that!

The babies are very content and happy with the birth center natural birthing process. Giving birth is a natural process after all and a miracle. I feel birth should be allowed to happen naturally if the mother and baby are healthy and up to it. Of course, there are doctors and hospitals nearby on standby. Some hospitals across the country have natural birth centers within the building. Personally, I wonder if more back injuries to mothers occur during delivery when things are numbed and pushed and pulled from a lateral position...but you won't see many doctors on their knees ready to catch a baby with mother sitting on a birthing stool in a hospital. But in birthing center it does take place and happens successfully from a birth stool or with tub birth or at least labor in the tub. The midwives do home visits a week later to make sure mother and baby are doing well.

An out of hospital birth is not for everyone but many who are good candidates and do it truly enjoy and feel it is a good and rewarding process to a have natural birth.

Now I am watching a "natural" birth where the baby did not fit through the birth canal....and an emergency C-Section if required. Hm..a natural birth is always desired but sometimes just not
possible.