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This blog post is here to offer guidance and information about the most common labour and birth procedures offered in a hospital labour ward (and some also at birth centers and even by some midwives at home births). It is written for women with a low risk pregnancy that want a Natural Birth.
It differs from country to country and even in different states and individual hospitals and birth centers what procedures and how often during labour and birth they are offered or done to women.
It's important to understand that most procedures in hospital aren't evidence based!
Yes you read that right!
And each procedure however small it seems, has benefits, risks and alternatives that you need to explore before you're in the midst of labour, if you don't want to be swept up in the system that currently...
The Natural Birth Podcast is here to bring Embodied Birth Wisdom from women from all over the world sharing their Natural Birth Stories with the aim to inspire Mamas to believe in Their Amazing Bodies and in the Natural Birth Process.
The podcast host Anna The Spiritual Midwife wants to change the dominant birth narrative that birth is a medical event that women need to be saved from and showcase the many many stories of women, who when allowing and supporting the physiology of birth, have the most profound experiences of their lives and come out on the other side feeling powerful and capable of absolutely anything.
Listen to Natural Hospital Birth Stories, Home Birth Stories and Birth Centre Birth Stories from Sweden, Australia, Canada, UK, Holland and Switzerland in Season 1.
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