10 Steps to Natural Childbirth

By Robin Elise Weiss, LCCE, About.com Guide

Choose a supportive practitioner. No matter whether you use a doctor or midwife, be sure that your practitioner has a lot of experience in caring for women who want to have an unmedicated birth. Midwives usually specialize in this type of birth. How to choose your practitioner.

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Erykah Badu talks home birthing, family plans

Giving Childbirth Back to Women through the Support of a Doula

During my three years at International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR), I have been fortunate—and humbled—to work with incredible colleagues whose dedication to securing sexual and reproductive health and rights for all is unsurpassed.

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Doulas More Effective than Staff or Mother's Family, Friends Read more at Suite101: Doulas More Effective than Staff or Mother's Family, Friends | Su

Research continues to show how effective doula support is for laboring women. Doulas have found to be more effective than family, friends or hospital staff.

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