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Originally Posted by tecoyah
Due to the general tone of this thread, I have no intention of actually commenting at length.
My first child was born in a birthing center.
The next two were born at home....unassisted.
I studied midwifery before we did so.
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Which was the smart thing to do. From what's been stated in the article, these people wishing to go 'freebirthing' are not studying midwifery, nursing, etc.-they're gonna wing it, unassisted, I would guess with the help of Google....
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They also note that the practice is free of charge and allows a woman to listen to her own body's signals rather than coaching from an outsider.
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Had I 'listened to my own body signals', my son might have died or been disabled. I was pushing on a breech and stuck child who, through a subsequent emergency C-Section, had to be pulled back up, turned and then birthed before his sister could be.
As a midwife, you would have known what the danger line is in that scenario. Had your wife either been alone or with you as an excited participant, that line could have easily been crossed.
It'd have been fantastic if I could have given birth naturally and at home; there's no comparison to the healing time, among other plusses. What I find, personally, in this 'fad', is the implied arrogance that laypeople can do what others were trained to do and then some.