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Natural Childbirth

Thank you for your interest in Natural Childbirth.

I recommend that you visit the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association's website for more information about how Chiropractic care can benefit a natural childbirth experience. http:/www.icpa4kids.org

The Green River Doula Network is a local resource for finding Doula's in the Pioneer Valley area. http://www.greenriverdoulas.org

For more information on natural childbirth and the medical profession:

articles and studies:

Fish Can't See Water: The Need to Humanize Birth
by Marsden Wagner, MD, MSPH
an article from the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
(75, supplement s25-37, 2001) http://www.marsdenwagner.com/fishall.html

Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional
midwives: large prospective study in North America
by Kenneth C. Johnson senior epidemiologist

an article printed in the British Medical Journal ( BMJ 2005;330:1416 (18 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1416)
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/330/7505/1416?ehom_

How Childbirth Went Industrial: A Deconstruction by Henci Goer http://www.mothering.com/articles/pregnancy_birth/birth_preparation/childbirth-went-industrial.html

books:

Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must be Fixed to Put Women and Children First by Marsden Wagner

The Birth Book by Dr. William Sears

The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin, CPM

Birth as an American Rite of Passage by Robbie Davis Floyd

The Politics of Birth by Sheila Kitzinger

Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to
Motherhood by Naomi Wolf