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Olive's homebirth/waterbirth
Pregnancy and homebirth experience of our daughter Olive. Music by Ben Harper. Birth
should be an empowering experience - this is just one small snippet of what her birth was
like for me. I felt powerful present connected to all women before me truly doing what
god made my body to do.
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Birth
1
A woman gives birth at home in the water with help from a midwife.. This 0.49 minutes
'Birth 1' video is submitted by FutureMidwife. Received 4.20 rating and 90 comments. The
video clip has been viewed more than 800,000 times.
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Waterbirth in hospital
Waterbirth in hospital. 'Waterbirth in hospital' is recommended to view. This 8.5 minutes
video submitted by RaisinRozen. Its titled and received 92 comments with 4.71 rating.
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Parto humanizado semilla de amor
Family video from Ecuador showing the waterbirth of a healthy baby. (Sobre parto
humanizado y su relacion en la afectividad y en el amor. La fuerza que mueve el
universo.)
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Luis Alejandro's Waterbirth
A good example of how smooth a waterbirth can be. (Un buen ejemplo de lo hermoso que un
parto en agua puede ...)
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Birth
7
A calm yet vocal waterbirth in Holland. FutureMidwife submitted this 1.37 minutes video
titled 'Birth 7'. This 4.77 rated video got 36 comments and has been viewed 154,000
times.
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Waterbirth part 2
Enjoy Part 2 of this waterbirth. Recommend you to view this 4.23 minutes video submitted
by RaisinRozen. Its titled 'Waterbirth part 2' and received 31 comments with 4.67
rating.
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Birth
2
A home water birth. This is a 10.40 minutes video titled 'Birth 2' and is submitted by
FutureMidwife. Received 4.11 rating and 193 comments. The video has been viewed 378,000
times.
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Welcome Henry
Slideshow of my son's homebirth/ waterbirth set to music. Recommend you to view this 8.23
minutes video submitted by lmonteith. It received 47 comments with 4.12 rating and has
been viewed 298,000 times.
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Why Babies Prefer Natural Childbirth
By: Sheryl Lyon
Childbirth is a life changing event which can be both exhilarating and
draining, the greatest experience of one's life or the worst. Childbirth carries tremendous dogma, old wives tales,
traditions, and controversy.
Adults have their own rhyme and reason for birth choices. Doctors and
midwives make choices for convenience, scheduling, to avoid lawsuits or for profit. You may make decisions based on
personal beliefs, research, the influence of others, your own benefit, and quite likely for what you believe to be the
good of the baby.
Doctors and midwives may claim to "first do no harm", but that apparently
does not hold true in childbirth which is evidenced by the United State's embarrassingly high infant mortality rate. It
is your job as the parent then, to distinguish fact from fiction to uncover what is really in the best interest of your
child. What is really best for your baby? What is your baby thinking or feeling during childbirth? What does your baby
want?
BABIES WANT TO AVOID PAIN
It is fairly logical to assume that a baby does not want to experience pain. Many birth interventions such as breaking
the water, labor inductions, forceps or surgery can cause the baby pain by forcing the babies skull against the mothers
pelvis, nicking the baby with a scalpel, or the unimaginable pain of forceps dragging them out of the birth canal by
their head.
Labor inductions can cause crushing contractions which smash the babies
head into the mother's pelvis repeatedly. For some barbaric reason anaesthesia is rarely used in circumcision which is
clearly excruciating for the baby not to mention totally unnecessary . Vaccines are also painful. Some of these
procedures are so painful and traumatic that the baby fails to make eye contact with its parents or breastfeed at
all.
BABIES WANT OXYGEN
Babies also seem to enjoy adequate blood and oxygen. Anything that compresses the umbilical cord which is quite
literally, the babies lifeline, will understandably cause fetal distress and if not resolved, potentially irreversible
brain damage. This is the worst nightmare of any parent but I am quite sure the baby didn't sign up for it either. A
combination of broken waters and a supine (on the back position) can cause the baby to lie on its own cord and compress
it.
The supine position also compresses the mother's vena cava which is the
main vein supplying blood to the uterus. Pregnant women dutifully sleep on their side through pregnancy only to get to
the hospital and start suffocating their baby to give the doctor a better view.
Many interventions used in hospitals restrict blood flow to the uterus
either through contractions or from the fight or flight response of the mother. The violent contractions brought on by
Pitocin and Cytotec restrict or eliminate the blood supply to the uterus causing dramatic fetal distress often
"necessitating" a cesarean section. Overly long or strong contractions essentially suffocate the fetus by only allowing
the fetus to "breathe" briefly between contractions.
By far the single most common intervention that literally robs a newborn
of up to one third of their blood supply is the insane practice of immediate cord clamping. There is not one
scientifically valid reason to clamp a cord immediately. The cord pulses for approximately 15-20 minutes following birth
and this pulsing is the babies final and vital blood transfusion. The cord blood is rich with stem cells, iron, and
oxygen and it is 100% the property of the baby.
The cord continues to pulses during the baby's crucial transition to
pulmonary oxygenation (breathing through the lungs). It can take several minutes for the oxygen from breathing air to
reach the baby's brain and the oxygenated cord blood compensates in this critical time. As you can imagine, cutting the
babies lifeline literally starves the babies brain of oxygen until the lungs can take over. In addition to potential
irreversible brain damage, immediate cord clamping also robs the baby of vital iron and causes widespread childhood
anemia. The easiest way to avoid anemia? Let the baby retain the blood that is rightfully theirs.
BABIES WANT SAFETY
Babies want to stay in the comfort and safety of the womb until it is time to come out. Inductions and C-sections that
are scheduled for convenience or some other arbitrary reason are quite simply removing the baby prematurely. Birth will
happen when the baby is done growing. Babies stay inside the womb for a reason and they want to remain there until they
are done growing. Some studies indicate that doctors are the leading cause of premature births in the United States.
The unfortunate truth is that virtually all medical interventions carry
risks to the mother and baby. In fact, many of the interventions are so harmful to the baby that they lead to fetal
distress which puts parents under pressure to submit to even more procedures that carry even greater potential for harm.
Almost no parent will say no to something that will save their child when the babies heart rate is dropping
precipitously. The fact remains that the doctor or midwife caused the distress in the first place.
BABIES WANT A WARM WELCOME
Try to imagine that you are coming into the world for the first time. You feel yourself being blasted from the sanctity
of the womb to the shrieks of agony of your mother and the militant shouts of others as you are suffocated on and off for
twelve hours while your head is rammed repeatedly into bone. Then you feel your body become heavy and unresponsive as you
are drugged into oblivion. You are suddenly exposed to blinding light and a crowd of eyes peeking between mask and cap as
your mother is filleted to rip you from the safety of your mother's body. 1/3 of your blood supply is drained from your
body as your primary life giving organ is cut from your body without painkillers. Your lungs are not fully developed
since you are a few weeks early and since you didn't travel down the birth canal the amniotic fluid was never squeezed
from your lungs. You are whisked away in the latex gloves of uncaring, unresponsive hurried strangers who ram a syringe
up your nose, weigh you on a cold metal table, inject you with toxic chemicals, blind you, and irreversibly mutilate your
penis without any painkillers. You are finally handed to your mother who is too tortured, butchered and drugged to hold
you much less breastfeed.
Conversely imagine coming into the world for the first time in a home
birth setting. You stay in the uterus until your mothers highly evolved and naturally intelligent birthing mechanism
understands that you are ready to be born. You feel the strong and gentle hugging squeeze of the uterine contractions as
they gently but firmly propel you into the birth canal. You can hear the familiar sounds of your parents and maybe some
music. They are talking to you, encouraging you, telling you they love you and cant wait to meet you. You feel the
familiar rhythm of your mother's body moving into various positions that give you ample room to comfortably rotate into
the perfect position to be born in. You are squeezed out with a final hugging push or two into the loving warm waiting
arms of your parents (perhaps to the sound of your mother's orgasm) and you are placed on mom's warm waiting chest within
seconds. You blink a bit in the semi darkness and hear your mothers voice without the buffer of the womb for the first
time. You hear her love and see into her eyes as you instinctively latch on. Meanwhile your body is being infused with
the final blood transfusion that will give you all the oxygen and blood you need for the healthiest start in life. While
you latch on to your mothers warm, waiting breast her body releases oxytocin which improves your bonding, releases her
breast milk, and causes the cord to stop the transfusion, the placenta to detach from the uterine wall and deliver itself
naturally. The colustrum from your mother's breast is all the vitamin K you need. There is no hepatitis vaccine since you
aren't sexually active quite yet and your penis stays happily and gratefully intact.
There are many arguments for and against natural birth but from the baby's
point of view there is undeniably no contest.
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Sheryl Lyon is absolutely passionate about natural and unassisted
childbirth. She channeled that passion into her website: Childbirth - A Much Better Way and her Natural Childbirth Store.
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