Rocky Hill native touts natural, unaided birth Sep 16, 2007
For information on unassisted childbirth, log on to unassistedhomebirth. com. (New Britain Herald, CT)
Despite risks, some women are choosing to give birth without medical assistance Aug 16, 2007
Yet in the view of Griesemer and other advocates of the practice also known as freebirth ; UC, for unassisted childbirth; and DIY (do-it-yourself) birth solo birth is superior to the unnecessary interventions that characterize hospital deliveries and the intrusive presence of midwives ... On her Web site and in a 1994 book, Unassisted Childbirth, Shanley describes each birth in unsparing, sometimes graphic, detail. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
DIY delivery May 16, 2007
But now, spurred by the Internet, unassisted childbirth is reaching a broader range of women than ever before ... Many women join one of nearly 100 Yahoo groups that list unassisted childbirth in their subject lines, including UCbirthnews, an online newsletter with over 1,110 members ... who wrote the influential book Unassisted Childbirth in 1994 and runs the website Unassistedchildbirth. (Globe and Mail)
Going it alone May 9, 2007
" As he was born, she says, she was laughing with joy.Although rare in the UK, there is a growing online community of freebirthers or "UC-ers" (unassisted childbirthers) in the US who are celebrating "the primacy of autonomous birth". Laura Shanley, 49, from Boulder, Colorado, author of Unassisted Childbirth (Greenwood Press, 14.95) and veteran of five unassisted births, believes that "women are the true experts of birth. Birth is sexual and spiritual, magical and miraculous", she says, "but... (Guardian Unlimited)
- Catherine Bennett Apr 5, 2007
The organisers of Aims (Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services), for instance, provide for women whose GPs have identified them as high risk (and thus ineligible for home birth) this template letter to the local director of midwifery services: "I have carefully considered the risks of home birth and compared them with the risks of hospital birth and I am not prepared to risk my, or my baby's health, by being delivered in hospital." Other mothers are so opposed to intervention... (Guardian Unlimited)
