One of the advantages of a home birth is that the woman/couple gets to orchestrate this event. At most hospitals, you can’t even video the birth. Are you kidding me? And people put up with that???? I mean, not everyone wants to have their birth recorded, but that’s not the point. The point is that…
Oh oh oh , what woman who wants to feel the full ripeness of her femininity when she is pregnant wants to have a mucous plug – a glob of snot – in her vagina? The Yoni (Sanskrit word for sacred place/space) would never hold on to such a substance – it would sneeze it…
Most women aren’t even getting adequate care, let alone good. They think that waiting in a waiting room for thirty minutes or longer is inevitable. If the room is crowded, well, it must be a good obstetrical practice. They think that being seen by someone different each month is fine, who cares if the person…
No one wants a long, unproductive labor with excruciating pain in the back. How many thousands of times have I heard the sad stories of women who labored for hours and hours only to find out they were two centimeters, maybe three or four? Or they got to eight and then – nothing…. Or the…