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Exciting Positive Home Birth Story ¦ UNASSISTED BIRTH

Join me as I share my empowering and positive unassisted home birth experience. From preparation to delivery, discover the strength and beauty of bringing life into the world at home. #HomeBirth ...
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Experts say 'free birth' isn't safe—here's why some parents are choosing it anyway

If you've heard or come across the term free birth, or unassisted birth, in parenting communities recently, you might be ...
Opinion

Free birthing and understanding risk

Letters: Olympia Bowman champions a middle way. Helen Style says the risks of giving birth without medical assistance are well known ...
Reason

They Had Their Baby At Home. 2 Years Later, They Still Can't Get a Birth Certificate.

When Teresa and Jeff Williams decided to have an unassisted home birth, they had no idea they would be unable to get a birth certificate for their son nearly two years later. Despite sending a litany ...
STAT

As midwife-assisted home births rise, so too do high-risk births outside hospitals

Kay Kay Lineweaver’s first birthing experience in 2021 didn’t go as planned. Her baby was breech and the doctor wouldn’t allow her to try to give birth vaginally, so she ended up with an unwanted ...
The Conversation

‘Free birthing’ and planned home births might sound similar but the risks are very different

Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University The death of premature twins in Byron Bay in an apparent “wild birth”, or free birth, ...