Hm. With all due respect, if I had ‘freebirthed’ my daughter and I would have died. What precautions, if any, are taken in ‘freebirth’?
I liked being drugged myself. I’m not big into pain.
“What precautions, if any, are taken in ‘freebirth’?”
All sort of different precautions are invovled in preaparing for a home birth. First and foremost is education about the birth process itself, and huge online chat rooms exist to help women with peer education. Mothering Magazine has perhaps the most popular chat room.
http://www.mothering.com/discussions/forumdisplay.php?f=306
Here is the chat for the women talking about this documentary tonight:
http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=979184
For me focusing on spiritural as well as physical preparation was the key to my successful home birth. Here is the link to my birth video (not graphic!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXuZs1PvkB0
Jenny
Same with my son. Over 24 hours of labor, after my water broke (he was not induced) and I was still only dilated a few centimeters. The fetal monitor started showing signs of distress and so he was delivered immediately via c-section. He turned out to be a big boy (9 lbs) who had wedged his head against one of my hip bones, and if not for the c-section he probably wouldn’t be here today.
I would not have survived my first delivery, and the same is true for my daughter who has two children. The mortality rate was high in long past years because of medically unassisted births, for both mothers and babies.
Why take the chance?