Birthing with love and pleasure is possible for every person in every setting. Birth lays the foundation for how women feel about themselves and profoundly impacts their postpartum sexuality and relationships.
Why would I want to give birth in a strange institution filled with bustling people reading monitors and twiddling knobs, if I could instead give birth in the comfort, safety and security of my own familiar home?
For millenia women have given birth with other women - there to support, hold, rock and even sing to the birthing mother. Check out these birthing traditions from around the world.
