There is a section towards the end which deals with maternal death and I have not managed to read this yet as it is obviously a very sensitive subject. She does not shun the medical advances of the real world, but she has witnessed hundreds of births over decades and her perspective is that women's bodies are capable of more than is sometimes believed of them.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. My challenging but beautiful birth experience has apparently become an exception in this country-- but it doesn't have to be. After she thoroughly detailed problems within the medical field, she gave suggestions that included more federal regulation and national healthcare. Ina May Gaskin, MA, CPM, is founder and director of the Farm Midwifery Center, located near Summertown, Tennessee. This is perhaps even more relevant in America as they have such high mortality figures for mothers during childbirth.i liked the second part more, and found the information thought-provoking in many instances, but overall it left me worried and doubting my choice to use a doctor/hospital/epidural, etc. In the case of Ina May, I'm a little embarrassed that the whole thing kind of makes my blood run cold.

She covers all the important primal and spiritual aspects to natural birth that are important, but she also does so in a way that might not be deemed by certain people as overly fluffy or 'hippie'-like as other books - I know some people don't like or aren't used to that. Still, I would recommend reading Henci Goer's book in conjunction with this for a slightly more even-handed, useful approach to the topic.Again, modern medicine’s ability to dull that pain is an incredible achievement that has aided many women who have had difficult, complicated labors, but I don’t think that these methods should be turned to simply because of a dislike of pain. In the end (I had my baby two days ago), I think this hysteria about hospitals did ultimately help me.