September 2008
10 posts
Nutrition →
Pregnancy Nutrition, or, You and Your Baby Are What You Eat It is a shame that most people really don’t pay any attention to nutrition. Eating the right foods will keep you healthy, prevent problems like diabetes and heart disease, and grow a healthy baby. Take a look in the grocery store. How much do you see that is packaged, processed and ready to eat? If it is like the local grocery...
Breast Crawl - Initiation of Breastfeeding by... →
This is a great video that shows how a baby can self-attach if left on mom and not separated. One more reason why homebirth is better.
Eliza's Birth
Like most of our children, Eliza arrived well after her “due date”. After 3 weeks of on and off contractions resembling early labor, I detected a slight change in intensity of the pains around 10:30 pm as I was falling asleep. I awoke an hour and a half later needing to use the bathroom, and noting the regularity and increasing intensity, decided it was time to call our birth...
We hope to have lots of stories to share, representing why More Babies Prefer Home Birth. If you have had a home birth, please use the form in the right sidebar to share your story! We’d love to read and post them!
WatchCompare this 1950s film about what to expect for your birth to the homebirth video.
Homebirth: As Safe As It Gets
The Safety Of Home Birth
My birthing experiences began with a hospital birth in 1975. I gave birth at home in 1978, 1981 and 1985. When I first became interested in home birth in 1976, it was really considered an “alternative” more than a safer choice than hospital birth. The general assumption then was that home birth was more about the experience of giving birth rather than the...