Painless Birth Stories on the WWWeb:

Many of these are posted at BirthStories.com, a great resource
where you can read first-hand accounts of all kinds of births.

It's Just a Cramp I Had It Easy
Four Pushes and She was Outta There Very Informed, Not Prepared
Easy Breezy Baby E First Baby, So Easy!
Well Rested Labour Baby Born in 40 Minutes
Didn't Feel a Thing, So Easy Second, Quick, Natural
Natural, Pain-Free Birth The Perfect Birth
Short and Oh How Sweet No Drugs, No Pain
Very Quick Birth! Awesome Bradley Birth
No Labor, Then Had to Push Darian & Tyler's Birth Story
Caitlin Comes Next Dora's Birth Story
Daddy Missed It! Baby Born in 40 Minutes
Exhilarating & Empowering The Instinct of Birth
Chelsea Finch's Birth Meagan's Birth Story


Additional Helpful Links:

Empowerment Through Labor
The Compleat Mother
Active Birth Centre
The Dangers of Early Clamping of the Umbilical Cord
(scroll down to "Basics of the Cord Clamping / Brain Damage Issue")
Birthing Basics
Perspectives on Normal Birth
"Just Fetal Headaches"
Birth Messages
Does Birth Have To Be Painful?
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Bornfree!  The Unassisted Childbirth Page
Laura Shanley, creator of the Bornfree! page and one of the founding mothers
of the unassisted birth movement, has written many articles that are
well worth reading, whether or not you plan to give birth unassisted.
I especially recommend these:

Pleasurable Childbirth
Don't Push the River, It Flows by Itself
The Truth About Birth
Childbirth Books That Empower Women
Diving into Ourselves
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A free birth
Unassisted Homebirth
Bob's Unassisted Homebirth Site for Fathers
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DONA (Doulas of North America)
Childbirth.org
The Farm Midwives

(check out their shoulder dystocia article)
Back Labor No More!
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The Waterbirth Website
Motherstuff
 

Favorite Books:

Active Birth, Janet Balaskas
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, Ina May Gaskin
The Birth Book, William Sears, M.D. and Martha Sears, R.N.
Childbirth Without Fear, Grantly Dick-Read, M.D.
Unassisted Childbirth, Laura Kaplan Shanley
Birth and the Dialogue of Love, Marilyn Moran
The Power of Pleasurable Childbirth, Laurie Annis Morgan
Unassisted Homebirth: An Act of Love, Lynn Griesemer
I Can Do This!, Hygeia Halfmoon
Birth As An American Rite of Passage, Robbie Davis-Floyd
Supernatural Childbirth, Jackie Mize
The childbirth chapters in The Ministry of Parenting Your Baby
and Christian Parenting and Childcare
by William Sears, M.D. and Martha Sears, R.N.
Back Labor No More!, Janie McCoy King
Natural Childbirth the Bradley® Way, McCutcheon and Rosegg
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Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year,
Susun S. Weed
Herbally Yours, Penny C. Royal
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We Are All Water Babies, Jessica Johnson and Michel Odent
 
 


 

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