Natural Childbirth

I have to admit, I didn’t always think of childbirth as beautiful.

There are no pictures or video clips that captured my first labor or my daughter entering this world. Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect. Not to mention all the information out there about what’s “ugly” about birth-you know, bodily fluids and looking at the placenta, oh dear!

Maybe it’s the births I have had the privileged of attending, or my own labors and births. But there is very little about the whole process that I don’t see as beautiful now. It’s in the laboring woman the entire way through, even when she is at her “worst” because of the natural way she’ll choose to do everything, even talk or move.

Below, you’ll find a long list of helpful articles about natural childbirth, breastfeeding, postpartum and other topics like VBAC.