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About BIRTH IS NORMAL

This community is meant to be a safe haven for discussion about birth. Topics discussed in this group are about pregnancy, midwives, childbirth, breastfeeding, post-natal and newborn care.

This group defines natural birth as “birth without artificial, medicalized interventions”. Because a woman merely had a vaginal birth it does NOT mean she had a natural birth.

Birth is not crisis management; it is not a rescue mission to relieve the mother of the child and the child of the mother. It is not an emergency. Birth is safe. Interference is risky. We don't condone and we can't allow misinformation to be spread. We are only interested in fact and truth. The truth is never an easy thing to hear, but the truth shall set you free.

We believe that normal birth is:
A pregnancy that ends after being allowed to run it's natural course
Free from artificiality
Free from unnecessary intervention

We believe that normal birth is not:
When interventions are allowed for convenience sake.
Stripping/sweeping membranes before 42 weeks
Inductions for non-medical reasons (and no, size of the baby and going past 40 weeks are NOT medical reasons)
Allowing water to be artificially broken during labor to speed things up.
Shot of pitocin after birth to speed delivery of placenta.

This group supports and encourages out-of-hospital birth. If you join and are planning a hospital birth please know we are going to try encourage you to have an out-of-hospital birth via birth center, home birth with a midwife or unassisted.

"Just as a woman’s heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth." ~ Virginia Di Orio

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You can always find this group with the following URL:
http://www.cafemom.com/group/birthisnormal