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APPALLING FACT: The US has the second highest infant mortality rate in the developed world.
APPALLING FACT: In the US, midwives attend about 1% of births (in the rest of the world, it is about 70-80%.) There is a connection - and mainstream medicine is missing it, to our great detriment.

Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein’s documentary, The Business of Being Born, is an eye-opening expose of how years of (mostly male-driven) American medical tradition, and the commercialization of health care has effectively veiled women from their natural abilities and wisdom. We are vastly unaware of our choices, our power, and the damage that unaware birthing is doing to our psyches and our social well being. It’s not about right or wrong, homebirth vs. C-sections, it’s about knowing the potentially positive and negative effects of every option.

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• Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth
  by Ina May Gaskin. Christiane Northrup says it best: “My fervent prayer is that every woman read this book.” READ THIS BOOK.
• Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation
  by Pam England and Rob Horowitz. A classic.
• Baby Catcher : Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
  by Peggy Vincent. True stories!
• National Geographic - In the Womb
  by Toby MacDonald. If you don’t yet believe that you’re a miracle - you will after you watch this!
• Rediscovering Birth
  by Sheila Kitzinger. A cross-cultural view of birth wisdom around the world.
• The Business of Being Born
  by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein. EVERY WOMAN NEEDS TO WATCH THIS.
• The Birth Book: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Safe and Satisfying Birth
  by Dr. William Sears. Sears is a major advocate of “attachment parenting.”
• The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two
  by Dr. William Sears. More holistic than What to Expect in the First Year.
• The Continuum Concept
  by Jean Liedloff. This is a radical anthropological perspective about what’s natural for babies. Brilliant, borderline whacky for some.