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The following are notes I took from Janelle's posts at a Virginia birth support group. Janelle is a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and stays busy with Mothercraft Consulting LLC


"The only reason I attend birth at home is because it is medically safer." -- Mayer Eisenstein, MD

"Home birth is not noninterventional. they intervene to protect the mother from obstetricians, the baby from pediatricians, and to protect both from the hospital. I regard that as interventionist."

(Hmmmm. Maybe I'm a lot more interventionist than I thought . . . )

(speaking of a homebirth practice) "They don't endanger mothers and babies with dangerous drugs, tests and surgeries. Your chances of death, disability, mental retardation, epilepsy, convulsions and sudden infant death syndrome are far greater in the hospital than at home. IF OBSTETRICIANS ARE GIVING DRUGS TO WOMEN IN LABOR, DOING EPISIOTOMIES, AND HAVE A HIGH RATE OF CESAREAN SECTIONS, THEN THEY ARE NO GOOD" (emphasis mine)


I love it. And I love this book: "The Home Birth Advantage: A Time-honored Tradition for the New Millennium" by Mayer Eisenstein, MD

"The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble: if he leaves it alone, it's a miracle"

The Home Birth Advantage


"You are a birth helper: you are assisting at someone else's birth. Do good without show or fuss … If you must take the lead, lead so that the mother is helped, yet still free and in charge. When the baby is born, the mother will rightly say, "We did it ourselves". - Dao De Jing, 500 B.C.