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A Woman's Nation: Reclaim Your Right To Birth Right
 
by Christiane Northrup, MD

As an obstetrician/gynecologist, I have spent the last 30 years educating women about the wisdom of their bodies, including their innate ability to birth normally. Yet our so-called healthcare system, which is a direct reflection of the beliefs of our culture, sees the female body and its processes (like labor) as an accident waiting to happen. Media images of birth as an emergency play right into this. The truth is that labor and birth need not be the emergencies we think they are. And the medicalization of birth actually does more harm than good.  READ MORE
 

3D Medical Animation of Normal Vaginal Birth

3D Medical Animation: Childbirth Stations of Presentation

VISUALIZE IT!  So much about your birth will depend on your ability to trust your body .  I believe that visualization is valuable because when you understand what happens, it isn’t as scary.  I wish I would have seen this before my home birth.  It is amazing what a baby does to get herself through the birth canal!
 


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