Jenny with Ben a few days after he was born in my bedroom
“As residents of the world’s consumer capital, New Yorkers can have anything delivered to their door at any time. They can have their hair cut in the living room, have champagne and caviar rushed to them on a whim, enjoy a shiatsu massage in their own bed or invite a clairvoyant to predict their future from Tarot cards laid out on the kitchen table.
But there is one thing that is currently unavailable for delivery to those who live in this most can-do of metropolises. Women can not legally give birth at home in the presence of a trained and experienced midwife.
This city of more than 8 million people, with its reputation for being at the cutting-edge of modern urban living, now lacks a single midwife legally permitted to help women have a baby in their own homes. “It’s pretty shocking that in a city where you can get anything any hour of the day a person cannot give birth at home with a trained practitioner,” said Elan McAllister, president of the New York-based Choices in Childbirth.
The collapse of New York’s legal home birth midwifery services has come as a result of the closure two weeks ago of one of the most progressive hospitals in the city, St Vincent’s in Manhattan. When the bankrupt hospital shut its doors on 30 April the midwives suddenly found themselves without any backing or support.”
Natural Family Blog
Introduction to the Natural Family BLOG Podcast Read by Jenny Hatch part one of two
Introduction to The Natural Family BLOG read by Jenny Hatch Podcast 2
Orgasmic Childbirth on 20/20
Amy, Paging Dr. Amy…
in the comment section to this post you claim:
“It’s not rare. It’s fabricated. As far as I can determine, it was never mentioned before 1992, and is only invoked by a subset of NCB advocates.”
I learned about orgasmic childbirth from Obstetrician Robert Bradley who wrote about it in his book Husband Coached Childbirth.
First published in 1965, Dr. Bradley of Bradley Birth fame details the mothers in his practice who experienced a birth climax while pushing their babes into the world.
I first read Dr. B’s book in 1988 and was introduced to the concept of painless childbirth, which I have been able to achieve with three of my vaginal births.
Many mothers do not experience painless birth as the depth of the episiotomy tends to damage the nerves in the vagina. Â Also most women find it nearly impossible to get relaxed enough to experience a birth orgasm while a stranger is drugging their bodies into oblivion.
But whether a mother has a full blown orgasmic birth or just has a nice painless birth, both are possible with proper education, nutrition, relaxation, and a nice birthing environment in which to labor.
Now if you want to understand the reason that mothers are putting birth vids all over the web and helping to smash the medical model into oblivion where it belongs, you need to realize that we love our daughters and do not want to see them bullied and beat up while they welcome their babes in the coming decades.
That sort of love tends to enbolden women who feel the need to educate and SHARE THE GOOD NEWS with anyone who is interested in learning the facts about birth. Â I have forced myself to tuck away my own modesty and reluctance to talk and teach Mothers about Orgasmic Birth because I am sick of people like you teaching young women lies about their bodies.
